Joke in bad taste lands actress in trouble with LGBTQI community

[webfact]

Joke in bad taste lands actress in trouble with LGBTQI community

By THE NATION

 

 

An inappropriate joke about her role as a drag queen has landed actress Karnklao Duaysianklao in deep trouble.

 

When talking to the press about her roles in the TV series “Drag, I Love You” as a drag queen and as a woman who impersonates the drag queen, she said: “I play LGBTQI with purple hair and purple pee”, before adding “just kidding”.

 

This comment drew criticism from people in the LGBTQI community, with many accusing her of making fun of the third gender. Some people also accused her of linking the LGBTQI to drug abuse. In fact, the clip of her interview was shared on the net many times.

 

The actress was also slammed for stereotyping LGBTQI people by saying they were always cheerful.

 

Many netizens also panned the Thai entertainment industry for choosing actors of the wrong gender to play LGBTQI roles instead of actual LGBTQI persons.

 

LGBTQI covers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30399275

 

 

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[DaLa]

Isn't it about time we all realised that humour has passed its sell by date.  Surely in a civilised world jokes should be banned. After all 2020's been such a hysterical year.

[rkidlad]

39 minutes ago, webfact said:

“I play LGBTQI with purple hair and purple pee”, before adding “just kidding”

Is the Thai equivalent of saying how if you 'bleed' something, you epitomize it? You say you pee it? 

 

 

[toofarnorth]

Let the LGBT community alone , its becoming a drag now.

[Jingthing]

Netizens are an artificial construct.

 

She was just joking.

 

Give it a rest.

[spidermike007]

PC is so tired. Everyone in the public eye always having to watch everything they say. Glad I am not famous!

 

PC is a form of weakness. Get a life. Get a grip. It was a joke. Water off a ducks back. 

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

the third gender

 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

LGBTQI covers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex.

I think I remember I read somewhere there are now over 70 (70!) different types now.

And dare to say anything which might <deleted> off even one of them...

 

[Dart12]

easier to destroy things, than to build them. up.  So the weak just tear away.

[Misterwhisper]

8 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

PC is so tired. Everyone in the public eye always having to watch everything they say. Glad I am not famous!

 

PC is a form of weakness. Get a life. Get a grip. It was a joke. Water off a ducks back. 

Exactly. Now... let's joke about her eyelashes, full lips, pale complexion and blond hair -- all of which are 100% natural and genuine, I am sure.

[Traubert]

41 minutes ago, toofarnorth said:

Let the LGBT community alone , its becoming a drag now.

You forgot the QI, hang yourself in shame.

[fangless]

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Water off a ducks back. 

Why are you throwing water at ducks.  This is down-right irresponsible and should be stopped now before someone quacks up over it!

[Seismic]

2 hours ago, rkidlad said:

Is the Thai equivalent of saying how if you 'bleed' something, you epitomize it? You say you pee it? 

 

 

I thought it was a reference to the fact that the drug testing agent for urine turns purple with a positive test?

[talahtnut]

I identify as a lesbian frying pan on tuesdays, desperately seeking a transexual sausage.

[djayz]

Why can't life be simple, like you were either born with a willie or not. What you turned into later in life is irrelevant. 

Too many labels!

Now I have to go check the meaning of "intersex" on Google. 

[katana]

Wokeness has reached Thailand.

[timendres]

8 minutes ago, katana said:

Wokeness has reached Thailand.

 

Thais were always woke, they just didn't need to brag about it.

[mr mr]

so a community that makes up less than 10 percent of the population dictates morality to all ? 

 

frack off. 

[fangless]

59 minutes ago, katana said:

Wokeness has reached Thailand.

Yet another thing spread by us dirty "Farangs"!

[simon43]

I detest the misappropriation of the words 'gay' and 'queer'.  In my youth, you can use these words to describe happy and strange scenarios.  The true meaning of these words has been 'stolen'....

[Muzzique]

2 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

What the heck is I (intersex)????

 

People born with both male and female sexual organs.  Can be a mixture of external or internal or both. Previously known as Hermaphrodites but this is no longer a PC term.

[tgw]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Many netizens also panned the Thai entertainment industry for choosing actors of the wrong gender to play LGBTQI roles instead of actual LGBTQI persons.

 

well, it was a line in bad taste, I don't think she put much forethought in that, honest "oops", nothing to make something big out of it.

 

choosing the wrong people to play transgenders though is a criticism I share. transgenders we generally see on TV are rarely very feminine looking, and none I saw so far can rival with the most beautiful transgenders seen in cabaret shows.

 

maybe there is a problem with "kiss" scenes and the subsequent gossip "look! actor X kissed a man". but actors can accept or reject scenarios, and I would expect at least a number of actors to be professional enough to not have a problem with it.

 

where it becomes puzzling, is that even in the Western TV world, we just don't see very feminine looking transgenders in these roles. I watched a bit the US series "Pose", and all transgenders shown are "obvious", none could be mistaken for a woman.

[Neeranam]

Queer used to be offensive as they said they were not 'not normal'.

 

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, simon43 said:

I detest the misappropriation of the words 'gay' and 'queer'.  In my youth, you can use these words to describe happy and strange scenarios.  The true meaning of these words has been 'stolen'....

You still can use those words that way but you'd need to be more clear from the context what you actually mean as those usages would now be secondary. However, language usage does change rapidly for many words so it must be convenient for you to have a group of "othered" people to blame for your displeasure about this particular change. Personally, I think that people complaining as you have are simply expressing homophobia in a less direct way. 

[AlexRich]

1 hour ago, Muzzique said:

 

People born with both male and female sexual organs.  Can be a mixture of external or internal or both. Previously known as Hermaphrodites but this is no longer a PC term.

I feel quite sorry for them, as that would be difficult to deal with. 

[AlexRich]

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

You still can use those words that way but you'd need to be more clear from the context what you actually mean as those usages would now be secondary. However, language usage does change rapidly for many words so it must be convenient for you to have a group of "othered" people to blame for your displeasure about this particular change. Personally, I think that people complaining as you have are simply expressing homophobia in a less direct way. 

I recall the term “queer hawk” being used to describe anyone a bit weird, and not necessarily referring to a gay person.

[Jingthing]

3 minutes ago, AlexRich said:

I recall the term “queer hawk” being used to describe anyone a bit weird, and not necessarily referring to a gay person.

Interesting. Is that an Irish thing? New to me. 

 

Quare Hawk - Kildare - Irish phrases and sayings you need to know (irishslang.info)

[AlexRich]

Just now, Jingthing said:

Interesting. Was that a U.K. thing? New to me. 

A Scottish (west of Scotland) term. I don’t think it’s was used in England, and perhaps not in other parts of Scotland either. It’s not used today, at least not by anyone under 70. 

[Neeranam]

17 minutes ago, AlexRich said:

A Scottish (west of Scotland) term. I don’t think it’s was used in England, and perhaps not in other parts of Scotland either. It’s not used today, at least not by anyone under 70. 

In East Scotland, 'queer' is often used in prisons. A queer is someone who break the law, a queer house is a prison. 

[MasterBaker]

unless it's a bad translation, i don't find it neither a joke nor inappropriate 

[jossthaifarang]

14 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

 

I think I remember I read somewhere there are now over 70 (70!) different types now.

And dare to say anything which might <deleted> off even one of them...

 

Confusing the <deleted> out of me. I thought Queer is Gay, and what the hell is intersex? I'm afraid to Google it, the family might think i was searching for some weird dodgy type of porn!