[Binstig]

I'm sorry but if an audience member made a racist comment they'd be kicked out and sent home immediately. How can a comment towards Luke A be brushed off as "oh dont be rude"... GRRRR!

[Jase.]

What was said?!

[Beverley]

I wonder if the woman who said it will still be in the audience after the break. She should be ashamed of herself!

[lostalex]

umm, if yur gonna make a thread about it, at least tell us what the comment was.

What was the transphobic comment?

[jackc1806]

I'm sure this will get BB into more ****. If people complain about the ret***s comment from Slick, they'll complain about this

[Binstig]

Sorry, I should have quoted. I cant remember exactly but the woman was talking about how she didnt like Luke A (fair enough) then said something along the lines of "boy, girls whatever he is"..

[MTVN]

What was it, I didn't hear?

[Munchkins]

What a silly silly woman
referring to Luke A as boy/girl :l

[fruit_cake]

she was talking about Luke A and said, something unpleasant about him and then referred to him as boy....girl

[Beverley]

Originally Posted by lostalex

umm, if yur gonna make a thread about it, at least tell us what the comment was.

What was the transphobic comment?

A woman in the audience was giving her view regarding Luke A and said something along the lines of "he, she, whatever it is". She was then cut off by Emma Wills who told her there was no need to be so personal and cruel.

[jackc1806]

He acts like the good little boy girl whatever. Emma said no need to get personal or rude and the audience were shocked

[MTVN]

What a bitch

[lostalex]

if she called him "it" then that's definitely transphobic.

[billy123]

I wish people would give it up with this faux sense of outrage its getting boring now.
Its a live adult show aimed at an adult audience they cant control every word that comes out of peoples mouths.

[Gstar]

I don't think that she was being deliberately transphobic though.

[Patrick]

Was a pathetic attempt at trying to be funny.

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by bobnot

I wish people would give it up with this faux sense of outrage its getting boring now.
Its a live adult show aimed at an adult audience they cant control every word that comes out of peoples mouths.

really? so it's okay to be discriminatory as long as it's just amongst adults? i'd love to know how you justify that logic...

It's not "faux" outrage, i'm pretty sure it's real outrage when someone is chipping away at someone else's humanity in that way.

I guess it's perfectly fine to humiliate and degrade someone, as long as it's just adults?

that sounds pretty silly, don't you think?

[Binstig]

Originally Posted by bobnot

I wish people would give it up with this faux sense of outrage its getting boring now.
Its a live adult show aimed at an adult audience they cant control every word that comes out of peoples mouths.

Faux sense of outrage? I'm sorry but I shall reiterate what I have said already. If a racist comment was made the situation would have been treated VERY differently and they would no doubt have acted on this.

I campaign very heavily on these issues in my life and I'm not going to let this pass by and excuse it just because the show is aimed at "an adult audience". Does that excuse violence, homophobia, sexism and racism then?

[Beverley]

Originally Posted by Germyle

I don't think that she was being deliberately transphobic though.

Oh she was, she knew exactly what she was saying.

[billy123]

Ive never been so offended that my first thought is to try and drum up some more faux outrage on a forum.
Nobody said it was ok ffs somebody said something offhand and was put in their place and told not to be rude theres no need for people to piss their pants with outrage at every opportunity.

[Black Dagger]

She was clearly trying to be 'funny' and thought the audience would be all 'haha ofc he still has a vagina lool xxx' and it clearly didn't work, doubt she'll be back.

But yeah, definitely transphobic.

[Black Dagger]

She was clearly trying to be 'funny' and thought the audience would be all 'haha ofc he still has a vagina lool xxx' and it clearly didn't work, doubt she'll be back.

But yeah, definitely transphobic.

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by bobnot

Ive never been so offended that my first thought is to try and drum up some more faux outrage on a forum.
Nobody said it was ok ffs somebody said something offhand and was put in their place and told not to be rude theres no need for everyone to piss their pants with outrage at every oppurtunity.

no one here is "pissing their pants", and to be fair, you sound more outraged than any of the other posts i've read here. So who is outraged? and why are you so outraged over people standing up for an historically discriminated group? Do you deny the history of discrimination? do you deny the prevalence of discrimination against trans people?

[Shaun]

Saw it, was a really awkward moment.

She was talking about how sly and boring he was, and said something along the lines of "he's just a very boring man... or woman..." and then made this "HAHA WHO KNOWS?" face.

Emma very quickly and coolly reprimanded her and moved away though ("Can we not resort to childish and immature comments?" I believe was her line)

[Shaun]

Saw it, was a really awkward moment.

She was talking about how sly and boring he was, and said something along the lines of "he's just a very boring man... or woman..." and then made this "HAHA WHO KNOWS?" face.

Emma very quickly and coolly reprimanded her and moved away though ("Can we not resort to childish and immature comments?" I believe was her line)