'Work It' Causes An Upset
The new ABC sitcom “Work It” has caused quite an uproar with the GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) organization. In particular, the transgender community has become enraged by the show’s cross-dressing buddies. Dr. Jeffrey Spiegel, a renowned plastic surgeon, offers his opinion on why this show is looked upon as being so upsetting.
“Work It” is an ABC sitcom that has a shorter shelf life than foods with no preservatives. It features a cast that doesn’t have any outstanding attributes and frankly bares no worth of mention. This could also be viewed as a favor to each of them. Long after that show has perished, this article will survive in an archive online and if their names are mentioned here it could serve as a detriment to be remembered for anything that is this atrociously bad.
It’s really just a very bad take off of Bossom Buddies. The weird thing is that show is actually remembered quite fondly and launched a very successful career for Tom Hanks.
Dr. Spiegel comments on having watched the show.
“I think it greatly misrepresents the challenges that transgendered people have,” he said, “These two actors who dress up as woman are readily identified as women by their colleagues at work. In reality, it’s obvious they are not women even with professional makeup artists and costume directors.”
In watching the program, neither of the two male characters are convincing as drag queens, nor are they as their male characterizations.
“Yet, they are readily accepted as women in the program. That kind of misrepresents the challenges that transgendered people face. What’s lost here is how courageous transgendered people are who come out and express their true gender in public because they know they are going to have challenges and they know they are going to be mocked. They are courageous enough to be able to be what we all need to be which is being ourselves.”
Dr. Spiegel offered one additional aspect to the program that could possibly be looked upon as a silver lining.
“The heart at the end of the rainbow here could be is that if there is someone at your workplace who wants to be interpreted as a woman, even if you think there might be some masculine features about them you should accept them as such because that’s who they are. That’s the one positive thing about the show that’s a lesson in the right way to behave.”
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