this can't be explained by 'satire'

[rhipowered]

Yes, I tweeted this but I do not even care.

Add massive transphobia to the list of explicit Glee fuckups. (They've probably been anti-trans before, but I don't have the spoons to go dig it up.)

NO WORDS, other than WHY THE FUCK BOTHER DOING IT. Except to be offensive.

h/t to

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[scandalmonger]

I think that the negative hype about this episode is a bit of an overreaction. Yeah, maybe they shouldn't have bothered doing it, but I know every high school drama department I've known has wanted to, some have succeeded and when they did they had to make some changes. I don't agree that Mercedes should be Frank, but they're doing it for a reason and whether it's to please the conservative crowd or somehow tie it in with character development, whatevs..

And on the part of the article about the Rocky costume change, let's just stop and consider what would realistically happen if a choir teacher handed his student a golden speedo and told him to wear it. No bueno.

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And on the part of the article about the Rocky costume change, let's just stop and consider what would realistically happen if a choir teacher handed his student a golden speedo and told him to wear it. No bueno.

.....Touche. :-)

George Q

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As the article and at least one other commentator here says: I'm not sure there's any point in trying to make a prime-time-friendly version of Rocky Horror. I don't think I would go as far as to use the word "transphobic" to describe these particular changes, personally, but I do think it's pretty pointless to take something so defined by it's gender bending and queerness and try to make it nice and hetero and safe - and the end result is something which loses what made the original so populart

Of course, in some ways, this is not a Rocky Horror-specific problem for Glee, or even just the world of musicals-for-straight-laced-types. Ignore the use of words like "bitch" in modern pop songs which Glee can't quite bring itself to say for a second - how many famous musicals are really all that family friendly? I'm thinking of Grease in particular here, which in pop culture memory is some sort of twee innocent sunday afternoon thing but... well... isn't

[fallingtowers]

I'm blinking a bit in astonishment at the fact that an "uncensored" version of The Rocky Horror Show wouldn't be considered prime-time friendly. I saw a drama production at my provincial hometown theatre with my rather conservative midle-aged mother once, and even she thought the show was a hoot...