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When it’s okay for women to wear “men’s” clothing, but when men who wear “women’s” clothing can be diagnosed with the psychological disorder transvestic fetishism, that is not transphobia—it is trans-misogyny.
“The catalyst for these protoreality shows was, as ever, a labor strike:”
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― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
“The more you give to your job, the more guilt you feel at home. The more you excel at home, the more behind you feel at work. Women are squeezed into a smaller and smaller corner, until there is no room to feel much of anything aside from anger or helplessness.”
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“The way most WGA writers saw it, the genre was the enemy—a wedge networks used to resist union demands, first in 1988, when the WGA struck for twenty-two weeks, and then again in 2001. If reality laborers suffered, maybe they deserved to.”
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
“Scanlon would go on to edit two more seasons of The Apprentice, then got fired, two weeks before Christmas, after a male editor came back from paternity leave.”
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― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
“Frank Berry, then the head of the NAACP, also objected to the show, but from a different angle. The way he saw it, the problem with Cops wasn’t that it worked with the police—it was that cops behaved better on camera than they did in real life, concealing their racism.”
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― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
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