Work It,
ABC's new, probably-doomed-to-be-canceled-anyway sitcom, is a show
about two heterosexual, out-of-work car salesman who dress as women to
secure employment as pharmaceutical reps. The show features no
transgender characters, but according to GLAAD and the HRC, it demeans transfolk anyway.
From GLAAD's press release: During a period in which the transgender community now
routinely finds itself in the cultural crosshairs, the timing couldn’t
be worse for a show based on the notion that men dressed as women is
inherently funny. In fact, shows like this have the power to put the
transgender community in an even more dangerous position.
GLAAD has seen the pilot and while the show’s pilot does not
explicitly address transgender people, many home viewers unfamiliar with
the realities of being transgender will still make the connection. Work It
invites the audience to laugh at images of men trying to adopt a
feminine appearance, thereby also making it easier to mock people whose
gender identity and expression are different than the one they were
assigned at birth. Said GLAAD’s Acting President Mike Thompson,
“Transphobia is still all too prevalent in our society and this show
will only contribute to it. It will reinforce the mistaken belief that
transgender women are simply ‘men pretending to be women,’ and that
their efforts to live their lives authentically as women are a form of
lying or deception.”
The show's pilot must have been a lot worse than its preview. At least in the preview, Work It's
writers seem less interested in the "inherent funniness" of men in
dresses than in the comic potential of subverting heterosexual gender
roles.
GLAAD and HRC are asking ABC to pull Work It from the air. If ABC elects to run the show anyway, it'll premier on January 3rd.
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