I posted this to my journal, and
popelizbet asked me to post it here. It's a wanky "letter" to L&O: Special Victims' Unit, and I may or may not actually be turning it into a letter fit for public consumption and sending it to them.
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Eeek! Transpeople are scary! )
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Since all of the L&O's take their ideas from the media, if you can include real life crimes involving transfolk without the negative aspects of criminals and the things you're opposing, it would probably help in a sort of "see, I know your M.O., and you can work within it while still being respectful!"
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And if you'd link or repost that article when you're done, if that's acceptable given the terms of the assignment for the magazine, I'd very much appreciate it...
Law & Order is part of my childhood - that was me and my dad's show that we always watched together - but as I've gotten older I've realized just how fucked up it is on so many subjects. I've used it, and C.S.I. as well, to illustrate to non-activist friends how much TV loves to fetishize and sexualize violent death and rape, with limited but encouraging success, but it's to the point that I no longer seek it out even on the rare occasion that I'm near cable television. :(
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In retrospect, I find it odd that he was fine with watching L&O in all its incarnations, but refused to watch Animal Planet's Animal Cops, because it was too depressing (according to him). At least w/ AC, you'd get happy endings sometimes, and they were true stories.
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I think people have a pretty clear mental line between "reality tv" like AC and "ripped from the headlines drama" like L&O: it's a lot easier to pretend the latter isn't real even when it's based on real life.
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I agree about the pornographic nature of some of the SVU episodes, particularly the "Olivia in distress" ones which seem to have faded a bit over the past few weeks. I tend to tune out the offensive shit and focus on the parts that they do actually get right. That's likely not the best attitude to have, but the "real" "news" "media" doesn't seem to be a whole lot better, either, in my opinion.
I guess I'll take what I can get for now.
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