Oh yay

[aesmael]

    In Australia there is a television program called 'Border Patrol' which is a reality show featuring footage of customs officials doing their job. I already hate it because I see it as stirring up unnecessary outrage, anger and mockery of foreign people (the usual ad runs along the lines of "You will never believe what this person tried to get away with - look how stupid they are".

    The one I just saw, looks like this week's main attraction is hassling a transwoman whose documentation does not match her presentation.

    Bad enough this country does not let trans* people have proper passports, nor documentation matching presentation without surgery the best surgeons for which are overseas.

    Posted: My journal, queer_rage, tranny_rage

Comments

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Small-minded people have so many ways to amuse themselves. I just wish they'd choose a way that didn't involve hurting someone else.

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, hurting someone else seems to be a diagnostic sign of small-minded entertainment.

[lost-angelwings.livejournal.com]

:O

That is awful! That's like COPS ;-;

*hugs*

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

We get that here too. :-( *hugs*

[flynnacatri.livejournal.com]

That sounds like exactly the thing that I will not be watching despite it not showing here.

Bah.
It is a bit stupid, as they have to have 'amusing incidents' to base the show on, and those will almost all have to be instigated somehow by 'outsiders'...

This is were the other cynical part of me says 'they' are encouraging insularism a sense of community and reassurance in the idiocy of officialdom security of the borders...

Anyway, *hugs*

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

Precisely the reasons I object to its existence, yes.

*hugs*