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The Golden Globes awards are over and time to move onto the Oscars. Emilia Perez the movie about a drug cartel lord who transitions to become a TIM, won some awards but critics including some from Rolling Stones, GLAAD, and Pink News don't think much of the movie
The title from Rolling Stones review: Mexican film fans criticized the musical for being "full of stereotypes," while GLAAD called it a "step back" for transgender representation
What a surprise to me. I would never would have linked stereotyping to males who are transvestites or TIM. Rolling Stones Admittedly though the complaints are about stereotyping of Mexican people.
Pink News wrote the film, “loses all nuance when it comes to trans identity,”
GLAAD included reviews from multiple critics:
This is also the plot of Mrs. Doubtfire, but Mrs. Doubtfire is a good film because it understands how absurd the character is. Emilia Pérez doesn’t know how absurd she is.
Again I am surprised. TIMs understand how absurd their characters are?
But we need the largely (read almost entirely) cisgender voting bodies of awards season to tread carefully when embracing this narrative
Ah, a threat that brings to mind the attack from the trans community on the NY Times a few years ago. GLAAD
Karla Sofía Gascón, the TIM actor who plays both a man and a TIM in Emilia Perez gave a speech at the Golden Globes and he once again barely held back his sobs as he talked about how dangerous it is to be a TIM and how unfair life has been.
The NY Times is preparing for the Oscar win of Harper and Will This week there was an article about Harper's jewelry some of which his sister gave to him after he transitioned and other pieces perhaps stolen from his grandmother. I only skimmed the article so am not clear. Yes diamonds are a girls best friend and Harper mentions several times that he is connecting with his own and his family's feminine side. Being the awful person that I am I couldn't help but notice Harper's slightly club fingers. That's ok, ok and I should stop thinking about Norman Bates.
Stupid Harper, Stupid Will. Idiotic men the both of them.
The only thing that could make that movie more misogynist would be if they had a dead prostitute in the trunk the whole time.
I would not trust a TIM to make sure that family heirlooms get passed on to other family members when the TIM dies. What a letdown for the female members of his family.
I mean, seriously, men do not care. My mother got most of my grandmother's jewelry when she died, but my uncle got a ring for some reason. He engraved it with the initials of his second wife's children and gave it to her as a Christmas present. She had never met my grandmother, and her reaction to the gift made it clear that she didn't care about its provenance. Although I guess his choice spared my cousins fighting over it.