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BBC commissions new series based on Paris Lees autobiography - 'What it's like to be a girl'..

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Xoxoxoxoxoxox · 21/06/2023 10:33

This is the BBC's latest offering aimed at educating us on the lives of trans people and their struggles. Paris moved to Brighton and transitioned into a middle class media reporter for Vogue but note how the promo blurb shows exactly what the producers think of working class people from the North- who 'shuffle around like the living dead' -how inclusive of them.

It's a new millennium - Madonna, Moloko and Basement Jaxx top the charts, and there's a whole world to explore. But teenager Byron is stuck in a small working-class town that hasn’t been the same since the coal mine shut in the 80s. Sick of mam, sick of dad, sick of being beaten up for "talkin' like a poof". Sick of everyone shuffling about like the living dead, going on about kitchens they're too skint to do up and marriages they're too scared to leave. Byron needs to get away, and doesn't care how.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/what-it-feels-like-for-a-girl-bbc

BBC announces What It Feels Like For A Girl, a new drama inspired by the acclaimed memoir by Paris Lees

Joyful, frank and packed with memorable characters, What It Feels Like For A Girl is a journey of love and danger, self-discovery and self-destruction. Because to find yourself sometimes you need to lose yourself...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/what-it-feels-like-for-a-girl-bbc

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ArabeIIaScott · 21/06/2023 11:13

Helen Joyce nails this perfectly:

'Next up: Rachel Dolezal on What It Feels Like For A Black Person'

https://twitter.com/HJoyceGender/status/1671148937775030273?cxt=HHwWgoDRrdrGjrEuAAAA

https://twitter.com/HJoyceGender/status/1671148937775030273?cxt=HHwWgoDRrdrGjrEuAAAA

JellySaurus · 21/06/2023 11:12

What would an adult human male know about what it's like for a girl?

Unless, of course, said AHM has ever actually listened to a girl, listened with an open mind, listened and understood, listened and accepted that the experiences of an AHM are entirely different to those of a girl.

Paris Lees takes the biscuit. So does the BBC, for that matter!

frootie · 21/06/2023 11:10

Wow that's horrific. What is actually wrong with the BBC.

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QuickWash · 21/06/2023 11:09

A couple of years ago I decided I needed to make sure I was reading books "from the other side" and I requested this one from the library.

It was completely unreadable for me. I didn't finish it.

I read a few books a week, I'm not in any way lacking in reading or comprehension skills but the use of local dialect etc made this a very difficult nut to crack (I say this as someone who lived in Notts not far from Hucknall for many years)

While I was reading it I heard Paris interviewed on Fortunately and their complete condescension towards anyone who was GC meant I just gave up.

I won't be watching this.

WinterTrees · 21/06/2023 11:01

I saw this news last night and was tempted to start a thread but didn't want to get angry by dwelling on it before heading off to bed. (You don't dice with your chances of getting to sleep in peri-menopause...)

I noticed that it's not due to start filming until 2024 so probably won't be released until 2025. Big gamble on the part of the BBC, I'd say. Two years is a long time in gender politics, and as the school girls have shown this week, the rainbow glitter is definitely starting to lose its sparkle.

OhHolyJesus · 21/06/2023 10:59

The BBC is just trolling women. What a nightmare it must be to work there.

piedbeauty · 21/06/2023 10:57

And Paris Lees is the best example of a trans women they can come up with?? The Paris Lees who beat up an old man and did time in prison for this and robbery? Really?

Surely there is only a very niche audience for this one.

Redshoeblueshoe · 21/06/2023 10:50

I haven't checked today, but last night the Beeb were getting hammered on Twitter over this

SirSamVimesCityWatch · 21/06/2023 10:46

Oh FUCK OFF, beeb.

I am so glad I cancelled my TV licence last year.

Florissante · 21/06/2023 10:41

Words fail.

heathspeedwell · 21/06/2023 10:36

FFS. What an insult to all the women who get put in prison because they can't afford to pay their license fee.