RSSThe Thankless and the Sexless
Gene Lalor | March 28, 2010
Two stories of markedly divergent import:
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth . . . :” The U.K., the United Kingdom, aka Britain, aka England, aka the British Isles, that multi-named little island across the Pond, is getting uppity now that the threat from the former U.S.S.R. has dissipated and it no longer feels it could be annihilated overnight.
Rescued by the United States from almost certain defeat in World War I and World War II and from the threat of the Russian Bear a generation ago, the Brits since then have grown more and more forgetful of their incalculable debt to America.
Now, when America is in the throes of social upheaval, a House of Commons committee has called for an end to the “special relationship” that has existed between the U.K. and the U.S.A. for seven decades.
No longer fearful of the Huns or the Russians, the Brits can have the temerity to thumb their noses in a westerly direction.
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee issued a report saying the UK should feel free to just say no to the United States and that ”there is a need to be less deferential” to their crass American cousins.
The ostensibly primary reason for this sudden attack of independence? The Iraq War.
As the committee expressed it, “The perception that the British government was a subservient ‘poodle’ to the US administration leading up to the period of the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath is widespread both among the British public and overseas:” http://bit.ly/cti7hw
And there you have it: The House of Commons feels humiliated and subservient because America led the charge into Iraq with its Brit poodle trailing behind and now they want to cut the leash.
Worry not, Americans. At the first inkling of another serious threat to the U.K., the Brits will be on our doorstep, hat in one hand with the other reaching out to put the touch on the U.S.
When that happens, maybe we should just say no.
Ticked-off Trannies with Knives: That’s not a headline in the Transgendered Gazette, but the title of a comic film chosen for the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City and the transgendered among us aren’t happy campers about it.
As of this writing, Ticked-off hasn’t even been screened but the city’s significant transgendered community is ticked-off, up in tattooed arms with their feather boas flailing in the breeze.
The playwright, Israel Luna’s description of the “comedy” was enough to set the trannies off: “campy homage to the exploitation films” in which “a group of transgender women are violently beaten and left for dead,” but then “the violated vixens turn deadly divas.”
That synopsis sounds hilarious to me but apparently wasn’t funny to the very sensitive trannies who feel it’s “offensive” and “transphobic” and they want the play pulled from the schedule.
“The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has made the same demand of the Tribeca festival” contending “The film, its title and its marketing misrepresent the lives of transgender women and use grotesque, exploitative depictions of violence against transgender women.”
The Tribeca people deny it all, say that GLAAD had been apprised of the play’s content last month, expressed no adverse reaction, and declared the show shall go on in April as scheduled.
I’m taking odds that the trannies win this one. It makes no sense for the festival to alienate a large segment of its fans–all those gays, lesbians, transexuals, and whatnots in the triangle below Canal Street.
(It’s hard to tell whether the trannies have already won their battle. Tribecafilm.com lists Ticked-off under its “Cinemania” section but does not include it among its 15 film schedule: http://bit.ly/9NqsVR)
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