TRANSform me is a “reality show”. The premise? “Premise: A female contestant is given an internal and external makeover by a team of three transgender women stylists.”
Guest Post by Moira:
Watch the horror here: http://www.vh1.com/video/transform-me/full-episodes/phaea-episode-8/1638069/playlist.jhtm
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OMG, Moira, this is horrifying. Thanks for the play-by-play; no way could I actually watch this rapetastic thing.
What a beautiful woman, being assaulted by a band of trannies. She is quite simply being erased by these porny males, emblematic of women in general, and replaced by what they want to see.
My heart breaks.
This is abusive and sick. I want to find Phaea and tell her she was right about everything, and then kick her fiancé in the nuts – hard – for going along with this.
And, like I said in the last thread, let’s all sit back and watch the funfem blogs not say a fucking word about this, for fear of hurting the trannies’ feelings. ‘Cause dog forbid, such a conversation might bring up some of the blatant misogyny so often found with trans people. Can’t have that.
I just thought of something else – you know how a lot of trans people refer to themselves as “CAMAB” or “CAFAB” (“coercively assigned male/female at birth”, like there was a big conspiracy in the delivery room or something)? This, THIS is coercive. It fits the definition to a T (har, irony there!):
1: to restrain or dominate by force
2: to compel to an act or choice
3: to achieve by force or threat
Thanks for this post, Moira. This show deserves to be sanitized by sunlight.
Looking forwards to a future where every woman dresses and behaves like a female impersonator c1954…
Evil satanic zionists and you are soooo negative and devisive…poor sad dinosaurs! LOVE is the way. Not your disinformation, pure IGNOR ance….Learn to DANCE. OM NATARAJ/ARDHANISHWARA……Peace be upon you . 786.
OMG here you are again Mister Stephani–hey dude you’re all tanked up on female hormones and you could swallow fists full you are still a man bro’ and your life is your dick. You hate women and Jews, that is a nice combo–you my friend are some not too bright piece of trash, a Jimbo cracker that likes to cross dress. Oh how very special. hahaha fricken pathetic–you get off prancing around like the guy in Silence of The Lambs–that’s all you are. Think about it from our perpective– a dude starts ozzing pre cum from cross dressing–and women vomit into their mouths. Get the picture? Well keep in mind if you think you look like shit now–flash forward. No sir it does not age well. Do you have those really weird and ugly man nipples? shivers.
No, Stefani LOVES women and Jews. Because Stefani proclaims that LOVE is the way. And LOVING people means calling them evil Satanists, dinosaurs, and ignorant. That’s obviously a very LOVING way to approach people.
What the hell just happened? Was that a drive-by gumming?
in the future, there will be “women” (a.k.a. pornified handmaidens of the patriarchy and fuckmeat for men) and “ugly lezzies” (a.k.a. women who are capable of thinking for themselves and don’t buy into that shit). I fear this future is very near already :/
oh my god…the word horrifying does not even *begin* to describe this. What’s next, do they instruct her how to have an eating disorder and how to start cutting when she feels bad????
I was so glad that I went to a fantastic gay-themed play (set of 12 short plays) last weekend. It was so refreshing to see swishy gay MEN not being ashamed of themselves and lesbians being butch, femme or whatever without questioning their sex. Thankfully there was only one trans*-themed short. I’ll let you guess which short was incomprehensible, disorganized and not received well by the audience.
@ 12:34 I really liked her description/criticism of the whole “sexy” (i.e. sex object) obsession in culture, it’s so true.
And to think all of it is done….just to get with those balding average guys that don’t do anything at all to be sexy themselves.
Right?! What’s so special about that baldy in his dowdy brown sweater? What’s he doing to “fix” himself up? Let me guess – he thinks he doesn’t need fixing. Only she needs “fixing.”
Prick incarnate.
Men telling women how to be women! I can’t watch the video. I don’t want to see one more woman, naturally HERSELF being told by men imitating women getting a woman to imitate the way THEY artificially see womanhood. In so many videos and interactions I’ve had and seen with MTF’s, they are so artificial, so superficial and so hypersexualized in their ‘female’ presentations, most of them.
What they REALLY hate is a Butch Lesbian who wouldn’t have ANY of their nonsense, and maybe that’s why they torment this woman so, and don’t even let her pick out her OWN styles that make her feel powerful and comfortable. HORRIBLE. Cuz the worst thing you could possibly be in relation to their worship at the altar of femininity cuz they will NEVER be Female, is a Butch Lesbian! And it sounds like this woman is a little bit butchy/tomboyish and of course that’s NOT ok!
-FeistyAmazon
Damn, this is just heartbreaking.
Very happy to see this crap only lasted one season.
Average balding guy— he does nothing. Average men looking like slogs with women all dressed to the nines…. heteronormative nightmare machine. Ugh, I won’t watch the video I’m so sick of these female impersonators!
I’m trans* myself and I find this fucking horrifying! I hope the whole show gets cancelled!
Excellent analysis, Moira. Thank you.
Thanks to you all for your responses, and thank you Gallus for letting me share here. It feels amazing to be able to. I felt so crazy watching this and knowing that most of the otherwise kind, reasonable people I know would be oblivious to the striking, obvious violence in this show.
Great expose, but very important to remember that no “transwomen” are involved since they don’t exist. It’s just men, as usual, telling women how to look, and the worst kind of men — those who appropriate female identity.
UGH, this woman is MARRYING that sad little puke?! UGH UGH UGH!!!!! PHAEA, DON’T DO IT!!! RUN FOR THE HILLS!!
Everything about how sadistic and objectifying this all is has pretty much been said. Men truly hate women.
Trannies are nothing but wannabe porn stars. They’re disgusting inside and out!! The “makeover” resulting in adding 10 years is so true. She looked better before.
But but but according to ultrafeminist website Jezebel, the only problem with this show is that they’re making over boring “cis” women. It would be like super interesting to see transwomen teach other transwomen how to walk, talk, and use make up like “real” women.
http://jezebel.com/5486685/transform-me-television-tackles-gender-identity-with-makeovers-yay
Aaaaaand here we have it. Not a word spoken in that post about the violence done to this woman – only a quote from Jill at Feministe worrying instead about how the trans will be portrayed, and others falling all over themselves to diss Da Evul “Ciswomen.”
Well done, leading “feminist” commentariat! Keep sucking that patriarchal cock! Whoo hoo!
“Keep sucking that patriarchal cock!”
I’m kind of in love with this line!
Also, I find it interesting that they’re worried about stereotypes about transwomen on tv, considering even on shows like Jerry Springer almost all the transwomen refer to themselves at one point as men. If the stereotype is that transwomen are just pretending to be women, why are most transwomen on daytime tv saying out right that they’re men?
Don’t even get me started on their spiel about how changing around the dynamics about makeover shows is transgressive. You can’t dismantle the master’s house with his tools, not even if you hold a hammer upside down and call it a screwdriver.
Phaea looks awesome in that picture at top. I really want to smack her fiancé.
My head was spinning. This was beyond words, deeply insidious. Three men all so helpful so caring and all knowing going to provide a woman with her center of power. This made The Stepford Wives look benign because at lest in the movie they killed the women. In this she gets to be put in a social coma and then abused and molested and we are told that this is to make her “a better women.” It was like watching a large predatory animal toy with his prey.
I come from a family where some women wore a lot of cosmetics. I never did before a certain age but my relatives understood that it was a public signal of compliance. It was a kind of social manipulation that I think they understood. They choose to be seen as compliant because they had shrewdness. I remember the make up got very heavy when one went to the doctor—and she was not young. I asked her why do you get all dolled up to go to the doctor. And she said, it is harder for men to cause physical pain to a woman they think is attractive or one they think imagines herself as attractive. There maybe some truth to that. In which case it was a defense strategy not to look pretty for men.
ha, so I finally got round to watching a bit of the video. You can totally tell that bald guy wants to blow the “transwomen” so bad. Of course, he’d have to tell them he thinks they’re women if he ever wanted a chance to get with them. It’s a ladystick not a cock mind you and it’s totally hetero bro
They should have cancelled that crap. I personally did not know that show even existed ’til now. Who would’ve thought…women are not put on earth to serve men. I know it’s shocking but women can do as they dam near please!
Gallus (I hope I spelt your name correctly)
Now little boys are allowed to use the same restrooms with girls!
http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/transgender-girl-wins-right-to-use-bathroom-at-public-school-183951487.html
Not sure why any woman, cis or trans, would put themselves through that! I mean, style is not something other women, no matter who they are, can teach you. I have my own style, which I honed over years of learning who I was, and who I wanted the world to see. Sure, I like being seen as attractive to guys, as I think most straight women do, but that doesn’t validate me more than liking the person I am inside and knowing that I am a kind, compassionate, understanding, and accepting person. Accepting of all people, straight, gay, trans, black, white, male, female, etc., until someone does something to invalidate that acceptance. Guess I just don’t see the point of disliking a person simply for who they are…
Anyways, ridiculous show, with a ridiculous premise. If it had been done tastefully, so more along the lines of “What Not To Wear,” it might have been better, but the trans women just made it into a campy, trashy mess. Had they been more professional, and less over the top, it might have been better!
Reminds me of my friend’s bachelorette party, at a restaurant in NYC where all the servers are trans*women (they also “dance”). I was in the restroom, having just exited the stall where I’d CHANGED MY PAD and was told by the trans in the corner “Oh honey. I’m twice the woman you are.” (FYI I was all femmed out with fancy hair, full makeup, designer dress, and heels.) Um, OK. Hi, nice to meet you! Your dress has twice the sequins, your hair and bra are twice as big and your makeup is twice as bright as mine. Guess that beats my bleeding uterus all to hell! Bye!
As I’m sure any Psych 101 student could tell you… “she” was trying to convince “herself.” Pathetic, huh?
Why am I not surprised that there’s a tranny hanging out in the corner of the women’s loo, judging the women who come through to use the facilities?
I’m a doing a little catch-up here, but just read this one. It’s so weird, Ashland, the propensity of these men to put on the drag and then hang out in the women’s rooms. While there are times when I feel some compassion for those with this particular mental illness, the fact that they have this disgusting need to invade the few ‘safe’ spaces for women that exist negates that compassion.
And the men who sign up for these freak shows on television and display their fetishes and paraphilias for the world to laugh and gape at should bring shame on anyone who calls him- or her-self a feminist and supports this.
Holy crap. Just showed a friend this episode, and then we watched one more. Episode 2: Christina has a near-identical series of scenes to this one: they make her do a photoshoot in a bathing suit; she cries and protests, says she feels humiliated; cut to her performing for the camera after who knows what coercive bullshit off camera. End with “She deserves it!” http://www.logotv.com/video/episode-2-christina/1648965/playlist.jhtml#vid=578159
Seriously, everything after the crying is her repeating these obviously scripted lines–“I feel so confident. Thank you.” It’s awful.
This makes me literally want to vomit. This is coercion. They are coercing that woman, coercing her for the entertainment of viewers. This show is disgusting.