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Jam'ie - male actor plays schoolgirl - BBC Three

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OhHolyJesus · 25/06/2019 17:49

Leading on from the Drag Queen thread, has anyone had the misfortune to stumble across this on iPlayer? I watched 5 mins, I think it was meant to be funny. Chris Lilley is an Australian comedian apparently and he plays a bitchy schoolgirl in the cool crowd, as far as I could gather from my brief watch.

I felt really uncomfortable with it, one image on the 'next episode' promo shows the main character getting undressed behind some towels that are being held up by the other schoolgirl friends. I'm sure it was all done respectfully on set but the whole premise of the programme felt wrong, and it wasn't funny. There's something very wrong going on at the BBC...

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BogglesGoggles · 25/06/2019 18:15

Oh and it’s not drag in the traditional sense.

BogglesGoggles · 25/06/2019 18:13

This is actually really funny-I went to a school just like the one he mocks with people just like the girls he mocks at the time it was released. You clearly just don’t get it.

BernardBlacksWineIcelolly · 25/06/2019 18:11

I think it was made in 2013, so 6 years old?

I wonder why the BBC are showing it now?

Piffpaffpoff · 25/06/2019 18:11

David Walliams, not Williams!

Piffpaffpoff · 25/06/2019 18:09

A bit of context - this is from 12 years ago though. Doesn’t make it any better, but my point is it’s not a new thing written with an particular agenda. He plays a lot of questionable female characters across his work, bit like David Williams.

MockerstheFeManist · 25/06/2019 18:09

Would love to see Catherine Tate's Lauren and Vicky Pollard beat the crap out of him/her.

PerspicaciaTick · 25/06/2019 18:07

The TV series is from 2013. Chris Lilley is pretty foul about everyone and he plays all the main characters regardless of age or sex so I'm not sure what he is doing is drag exactly, more an exercise in overwhelming hubris.
Not a patch on Kathy Burke's wonderful Perry.

BernardBlacksWineIcelolly · 25/06/2019 18:05

just googled the show

do you think I'm allowed to be triggered by the sight of a male in a nylon wig? It certainly feels like I'm getting that way.

He looks really weird next to the actual teenaged girls.

MockerstheFeManist · 25/06/2019 17:57

Chris Lilley also known for his ever-so-racist Jonah-from-Tonga character portrayal.

Michelleoftheresistance · 25/06/2019 17:55

There seems to be a concerted campaign to normalise drag as funny, cute, etc etc, which I'm sure the fond idea is the general public will get blasé about people with beards in prom dresses and corsets strutting about in women's spaces. And just go ahh bless a lot.

What they don't see is that it's just rubbing the insult into women's faces and making it more obvious, and women will just get steadily more pissed off. Hence the thread of people who used to find drag harmless fun and now find it flat out offensive.

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