Pamela_4
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Fair enough, but how do you know that you are “being seen as weak” until someone says something? My point was that ignorant people say ignorant things & smart people (like Adam Hills) sometimes say ignorant things (in this case trying to score a cheap laugh) & the only way to deal with it is to rise above it. I’ve wasted around 50-years battling the “Not a real man” issue – being skinny, wearing glasses, hopeless at sport, having a big nose, being a nerd etc – let alone desperately hiding my trans issues (totally unacceptable when I was a kid). So yes it really hits a nerve with me too when I hear comments like that, but I’m (slowly) learning that it’s OK to be me. As others have said in other forums, I don’t even worry about “not passing” any more (well, maybe a teensy bit), I’m just happy being me – it’s probably the ‘strongest’ thing I can do with my life.
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Christina I saw this program too & I think you’re reading too much into it. Surely the whole ‘Be a man’ thing has been relegated to the ‘Blue is for boys, pink is for girls’ dustbin of history by anyone with any sense. I’m amazed & disappointed that the comment wasn’t edited out. It was clearly typical Adam Hills behaviour in trying to be so funny & clever all the time. Yes he is a likeable & insightful character, well suited to host/straight-man roles of shows like ‘Spicks & Specks’ & ‘The Last Leg’ (the latter has become one of my favorite shows). However someone needs to take him aside & explain that he is nowhere near as funny as he likes to think he is. I’ve tried watching some of his ‘stand up comedy’ shows & have always had to give up. Last night’s was typical – barely five minutes into the show he was already discussing clitoris’ & had humiliated an interpreter for the deaf & a 12-year old boy about his testicles dropping etc. Contrast that with say, Dara O’Briain doing a similar show the night before – I had tears streaming from someone who is genuinely witty & clever, not having to resort to cheap smut & endless use of the ‘f’ word like Adam & so many of today’s so-called comedians. Anyway, having the courage to ‘Be our selves’ (however difficult) is surely the way forward, not succumbing to the sort of cheap, school yard bullying that Adam displayed in that segment. Regards, Pam. P.S. I wonder what Adam would have (posthumously) said to Alex if the plane had indeed crashed!
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Thanks Suzzanne, I would like to watch this episode, can you remember what the name of it was?
