Fat, Trans, Queer Podcast about Queer issues with an emphasis on Music, TV, media, sex, relationships, and ranting. Nonbinary transgender man with no real plan. I make playlists, I rant, I rave, I love and I hate. I also write on my blog-- daily. Check out madaboutit.blog and tune in for podcast episodes as they are available. beckywtghmai@gmail.com @madAboutItMAI https://www.facebook.com/madAboutItMAI @madAboutItMAI https://twitter.com/madAboutItMAI Instagram that I NEVER EVER USE @madAboutItMAI https://www.instagram.com/madAboutItMAI https://www.patreon.com/madaboutitpatreon Support MAI on patreon!
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Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
If Ru Paul Won't Cancel Utica-- then Cancel Ru Paul!
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
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Talk about a friendly goodbye.
"Mean"? Does that really cut it?
Does "mean" hold up against all that ignorance?
I've about had it with Ru Paul and I think it's time the empire started to collapse on itself. Ru Paul's ego is old, fat and bloated--if you don't mind me saying so.
Fat. A word for excess adipose tissue. Something Ru Paul would have, if he didn't look like he had weekly plastic surgery appointments to suck the fat out of every crevice of his body. He would take that as a compliment, certainly!
Gottmik as the first trans contestant? Might as well have a headline that says "Go fuck yourself, trans history!"
Anyway here's all my notes
utica roast outline
Intro
hello, I dunno if I'm becky anymore
But I'm sure as hell still mad about it.
Utica's roast was one of the more revealing parts of the show.
Exposed underlying sentiments long encouraged in the show
Season 2 is a great example of virulent fatphobia scripted by Ru Paul himself into the show
--Raven benefits from her real-time roast of mystique during the food challenge. Her jokes about mystique in the interview clips are at least as mean as Utica's roast material. Except-- no roast in sight. Just another contestant on the show.
--they made them eat brains and all sorts of weird stuff that the other queens found disgusting, so that when mystique won first by a large margin (because it was a speed-eating competition!!!) She was double standard punished for both finishing first and finishing first while eating what the other queens treated as such a disgusting array of foods. Mystique was both setup to win, and setup to be shamed for winning.
Season 9 Sasha Velour, Valentina and Eureka have a confrontation
--Eureka is edited as the loud angry fat person bullying the thin people with eating disorders
--Eureka's own experience with eating disorders is completely edited out.
--There is a clip where Sasha begins to apologize to Eureka and her word is clipped mid-sound. Sounds edited, highly suspicious. Perhaps Sasha velour was acknowledging Eureka's truth, and the show edited it out?
--Eureka recieves the villain edit in season 9 and 10 both. When she talks about her serious injury, and the struggles involved in healing from it-- she is treated as someone grasping at straws for sympathy as some sort of advantage in the competition. This is pretty common in the show, but generally pits real vulnerability as not just weakness, but manipulative intent.
--At least three contestants come forth talking about their issues with eating disoders, and none of the fat contestants are ever interviewed about their issues with body image and food. I have a hard time believing Eureka didn't talk about eating disorders.
Fast forward through Nina West, who is labeled as a plus sized without being plus sized. She is a broad, full sized adult man who doesn't try to become an unhealthy size or weight. She is treated as fat, and has self-labeled as such. She also happens to play devil's advocate whenever possible, "diffusing the situation", "putting out fires" aka BEING A HUGE WET BLANKET.
tbh after this recent footage fuck Nina West.
Silky Nutmeg Ganache also recieved a vicious villain edit in the show. I believe she is a huge diva in real life, but I also fail to understand how this is a disadvantage on the show. In all previous seasons-- the biggest diva wins. Unless she is quite literally the biggest, largest diva.
Kim Chi was robbed. Multiple times. Her song "fat femme and asian" not only puts her in a box, but fails to make it a box anyone would want to open. For a queen with such tremendous artistic talent and emotional depth, I feel that "fat femme and asian" is more than a bit reductive. It definitely hasn't aged well, given America's epidemic of asian violence.
Now we arrive to Utica. I'm sure we missed some other plus girls on the show, but I just wanted to make this about Utica TBH. I would love to have a whole separate episode about fatphobia in all the seasons of ru paul, but I needed to give you some history in case you weren't aware or hadn't seen the later seasons.
Utica starts the episode by pandering for compliments about her lipsync. She clearly intends for people to congratulate her for sending Tina Burner home, and for them to say her lipsync was amazing. It wasn't, so they didn't.
She then writes her jokes, which apparently are so bad that Rose even said something in her cutaway interview that she thought they were insensitive at best. She goes to rehearsal, she starts delivering her material
Her first joke is good, she tells her lion king joke. It flops, Michelle critiques-- the way she would with any other queen. Utica responds by fat shaming her, ignoring and insulting her critique. She then tells the Nina West "whale" joke. Doesn't even make a Dory reference (comedy crime no.1)
Loni Love laughs, because the jokes was horribly fatphobic.
Utica laughs at the whale laughing at the whale joke
Utica drives it to the next level by asking if she's triggered, when she stops laughing--
She stops laughing because she realizes this person is not respecting anything she is saying or doing, so she stop feeding the troll.
The troll keeps whacking. Loni Love, to me, seems to retreat.
Michelle steps in, says its very mean, very harsh, not good.
Utica laughs, rolls her eyes, seems to think to herself "well then the right people will love it"
"I think this is funny, everyone else will think it's funny to"
She literally says later in the dressing room, after the rehearsal--
"If I'm having fun, they will too!"
Nope.
Utica performs every joke as-was in the rehearsal. No edits, nothing changed whatsoever. Well, except that the roast has more jokes. And They’re all worse, somehow.
She smiles and enjoys the whole thing start to finish regardless of what her response was.
Her jokes to Heidi were racist, IMO.
I believe that the secret to Utica's offensive humor was that to her, it was very very funny.
To many other people on twitter and reddit, they also loved it. They also thought it was all very very funny.
In order for those jokes to have any punch, any joke, any humor whatsoever-- you have to fill in the gaps. You have to imply. You have to make implications.
You have to have a series of stereotypes that you find less-than, that you automatically assume about people. Those seterotypes, those implications, those biases you find hilarious are all biases. Those are not proven. Those are assumed negative attributes, that you deem unseemly, that you don't associate yourself with. That you go ahead and assume about someone else, that you dont' know. It's bullshit, It's called being a fucking bigot.
If you thought any of Utica's jokes were funny, it's because of those implications. I believe that if you were the wrong kind of folk, you could definitely enjoy various racist implications insinuiated by Utica's material.
No one even mentioned it. The only people I've seen talking about it online are talking about it in other countries, outside of America. Fuck America TBH
Plenty of other queens made offensive jokes with fatphobic material. The implications of their jokes were nothing like Utica's. Gotmikk's joke about Ross coming when the pizza is delivered in a porno implies literally nothing about Ross's lifestyle or character other than a funny joke about loving pizza abstractly. Calling Kandy a roast is also kind of implying that she is delicious.
Loni Love heckles her that she is bombing and laughs. The whole panel laughs with her.
Ru flips her off twice while laughing and smiling
They get their promo shot for the season
The golden meme from Season 13
Utica is proud of her performance, but seems to understand that she wasn't going to be judged well.
She is very proud and at ease leaving the studio. It is, by all definitions, a completely normal exit interview.
She leaves on a high note, Ru Says she looks amazing, and that she was funny sometimes, but other times too mean.
She says she loves her and that she should sashay.
I think she put Symone in the bottom to make sure that Utica was sent home, but perhaps Symone was only in the bottom for her poor performance. Perhaps I'm being way too optimistic
If Olivia had bombed, Utica very well may have survived another day.
Utica's ractist undertones went completely unchecked.
Ru paul laughed his ass off at the whole thing
I guarantee you she will be back for All stars
Yet another chapter in a long history of Ru Paul's Drag Race promoting and benefiting from fatphobia, and fatphobic sentiment.
Arguable Lawrence Chaney is a winner only because of his willingness to play the part.
I shouldn't have to have personal experience as a fat person to be able to see the various contemptuous intents presenting in this episode, and past episodes. Same as racism, it is plain to see. Sexism, plain to see.
Again, why is it that on a show that claims to uplift and represent the queer community-- Ru is taking credit for discovering, accepting and adapting trans people for the show, all while silencing and editing out all previous trans contestants. Gottmik is just another chapter in a long history of transgender drag queens. Many previous contestants on the show have come out as transgender, and many previous contestants on the show have identified as nonbinary-- even Gigi Goode who almost won. Why wasn't the gentlemen--start your engines line changed for that season? What about gottmik makes it "racers" instead of gentlemen?? Gottmik identifies as male, he uses he/him pronouns, he just happens to be transgender.
Why. Is. This. The. Season. It. Becomes. Racers.
Thursday Jun 11, 2020
Thursday Jun 11, 2020
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JK Rowling Writes About Her Reasons For Speaking Out on Sex and Gender Issues
Like, actually read it?
I'm being serious--
Did you read someone else's opinion on Twitter
Before you made your own...?
Really actually read all 12 pages
Then join me for this episode.
She has become radicalized in the last few years, all because of twitter!
She quotes all of the biggest features of TERF ideology, and stirs fear over bathrooms.
She says things most all people consider to be transphobic.
She is clearly being a provocateur, but why? Perhaps maybe because she has been harrassed nonstop for her limited understanding of sex and gender?
She has had to self-educate now, and is only listening to TERF's about gender politics. She is responsible for her beliefs and her decision to quote famous TERF writers and leaders. Trans people are also responsible for how they have reacted to her twitter over the years. She has become a target for abuse, and I don't want to be associated with that sort of "activism".
Perhaps saddest of all, is that JK Rowling refers to all of her online abuse as "trans activism". I do not advocate for such speech.
SADDER THAN THAT is how many fans I have lost because I don't want to villainize her further than she has villainized herself! It is not enough for me to simply disagree with JK Rowling, I must degrade her--otherwise I'm not really a trans advocate!
What fucked up version of the twilight zone am I living in???
How am I living such a beautiful life surrounded by feminist trans people, but online--it's a different universe?
here is the gender recognition bill in scotland that Rowling is so terrified of. I don't understand her fears, as the legislation is still strict--still imposes limitations on transition. None of her fears in her treatise are verifiable.
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Not All Lives Matter
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
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Not sure how anyone could see any of the recent police brutality in America and be able to say that “All lives matter”. Clearly— not all lives matter. Ahmaud Arbery’s life doesn’t seem to matter as much as the cops that shot him. Breonna Taylor was an EMT, her life mattered more than mine does, and yet she is dead—shot eight times. I don’t know what to say, besides to talk about what is happening, to acknowledge reality. Black lives matter—is a reminder, not a movement. Black lives matter, I will keep reminding everyone I know until I see it reflected in our society. Black lives matter. Black lives matter. Black lives matter.
I am enraged by the “all lives matter” camp and the inherent privilege that comes with it. Hopefully recent events will shake these people out of their fog, and if they don’t, hopefully my screaming helps.
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Sherry Pie Is The Best and The Worst of Season 12 Ru Paul's Drag Race and Becky Is Torn
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
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Whoa there Joey Gugliemelli... whoa. Controversy! Drama! HBO special series Bulk!!!! Maybe a bit too good of a drag queen...? You give love a bad name, Joey! Becky is reeling, in more than one way. Only Ru Paul gets under my skin this much, I swear to hell.
I love love loved improvising my own version of talking heads naive melody. fitting.
Also evil woman!!
I missed making the podcast! more to come during the pandemic, no worries!
Sunday Dec 22, 2019
How Is JK Rowling A TERF If Becky Loves Her So Much?! What The Hell, God?
Sunday Dec 22, 2019
Sunday Dec 22, 2019
Life's not fair I guess. I also kinda don't think she is one. I think Maya whatsername is for sure but like--JK Rowling!?! The creator of my childhood? I can't with this, yo. I can't. I don't? I don't! Hmmm
I don't understand. Honestly the episode comes to zero conclusions. I bamble. I ramble. I bullshit and I stumble. I confuse myself often.
Sunday Sep 01, 2019
Biphobia
Sunday Sep 01, 2019
Sunday Sep 01, 2019
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God rest ye merry gentlethems
We talk some talk. Biphobia is the real deal! I go into some brief definitions and then some random anecdotes. Featuring some Miley Cyrus rants and an acknowledgment of Hemsworthiness. There might also be a lot of screaming. This topic is very sensitive, so I had to go full “why’d you say that” with it otherwise it would be boring.
I tried to stay away from the most basic cliches, but unfortunately most things of the best things in life are cliche.
Thursday Jun 06, 2019
"Stonewall" Rant with Explanation
Thursday Jun 06, 2019
Thursday Jun 06, 2019
Hey Everybody! We’re Celebrating Stonewall’s 50th anniversary like everyone else with a queer podcast on this earth. We’re doing it differently, cuz its my show not theirs. You will probably hate it, it's probably wrong, it's probably rude, it's probably offensive. I did my best. Shout out to the revolutionaries who paved the way for my loud, rude, queer ass to fuck it up. At least I didn't put vaseline on a float (this time)
Saturday Nov 10, 2018
Radical Feminists in the LGBT Community (TERF's in particular)
Saturday Nov 10, 2018
Saturday Nov 10, 2018
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Heyyyyyyyyyy!!!!
We're going head first into TERF turf this week ya'll. We don't hold anything back, but we also aren't exactly going to burn down the smurf/terf village and ban them from society. Tune in to see my suggestions on what we should do with TERF's, why they're important, and what they symbolize for the gay community.
This is a particularly ranty one
Spoiler alert: I will offend most everyone with this episode. Except, of course, for rational people who don't hate others for sport. Not very friendly for those who get high off contempt and/or pity
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
Gender Dysphoria: The T, The Low Down, the Bidness
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
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Hey! We get super obsessed with gender dysphoria with this one. I barely talk about mtf, but in my defense I got super duper wormholed with the ftm youtubers (they are all SOOOOO mmmmm).
also Jammi Dodger? Like wut.
theres also of course Stef Sanjati
Also Riley J Dennis
TRANS YOUTUBE IS INCREDIBLE FOLKS
GET ON IT
upperhandmars!
https://www.translifeline.org/
https://blog.feedspot.com/transgender_youtube_channels
https://www.genderconfirmation.com/
Sunday Aug 19, 2018
Bitterness, Resentment, Ranklement, oh my!!
Sunday Aug 19, 2018
Sunday Aug 19, 2018
Hi All, today we're talking about bitterness. What is it? From whence does it hail? What do people say about it, what are their suggestions? How does anyone overcome bitterness? Is it possible? Or is bitterness just a personality flaw of some people? Are you mad yet? Right don't worry I would legit never make an episode bout how your personality is inherently bullshit ya'll WTF but anyway tune in CUZ MAYBE IT IS