But I defy anyone watching Pose or Everyone's taking about Jamie to find anything offensive. The message is about equality and oppression and being yourself
...if you're male. And if you're female, you're a prop in a man's story about him being himself.
I do find Everyone's Talking About Jamie offensive, actually.
All of the female characters are demeaning caricatures of women (women aren't capable of putting the bins out and need a man for that, girls just want to look pretty, women's only priorities are their children or relationships with men, etc).
And while it was great to have a female Muslim character as the best friend, when she tries to talk about her issues (the abuse she receives as a Muslim for having a Hindu name), it's dismissed as unimportant compared to Jamie's issue of not being able to wear a dress to prom. I know this was a joke but why use a Muslim woman's problem as the butt of the joke? They could have used almost anything to get the point across that Jamie is self-centred and overly dramatic- why deliberately choose to shit on marginalised women?
Given that it's written by three gay men who are obviously fans of drag, it's not a surprise that the female characters were one-dimensional (I did wonder whether any of them had ever met a real-life woman), but I thought it was absolutely tone-dead on gender.
There was even a bit where the audience was supposed to laugh at teenage boys talking about how they were going to 'drill' the girls at prom - I found the trivialising of sexual violence against girls offensive too, but perhaps I'm just a prude. 