[ SECRET POST #5531 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5531 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I still can't believe that show got made in the first place. I mean, maybe if it were one of those godawful British 70s sex "comedy" shows, but as a US show? That just does not compute.

[(Anonymous)]

Why?

[(Anonymous)]

America was just so much more puritanical about gender roles and cross dressing back then. Embracing drag is relatively new phenomena in America, but English guys pretty much fall over themselves to try on a frock.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, Bosom Buddies was a sitcom. America's been okay with comedy cross-dressing pretty much forever, and by the 80s it wasn't exactly new.

[(Anonymous)]

Some Like It Hot was made in 1959

I do agree that it seems more common in Britain though

[(Anonymous)]

Corporal Klinger had been wearing a dress every week for a decade at that point. "America" wasn't that fussed.

[meadowphoenix]

I don't think you understand either puritanical gender politics or 80s gender politics. For what it's worth, puritanical social indoctrination loves transgressions that ultimately reinforce strict gender binaries (though I would say there's usually some punishment involved). That said, in the 80s, it was more about using gender transgression to either further feminism, or conversely further the idea that feminism was unnecessary depending on the show.

[(Anonymous)]

LOLOLOL

Two words: Bugs Bunny.

[(Anonymous)]

I see what you're getting at, but nah. I mean... it was very obviously done for laughs and both of the main characters had girlfriends so there was a strong and obvious "no homo" vibe to it.

[(Anonymous)]

Putting a man in a dress for COMEDY isn't exactly embracing drag or defying gender roles.

[(Anonymous)]

Were you watching much TV in the 80s? Because from my perspective, there's nothing particularly weird about it in that cultural context.

[(Anonymous)]

I watched it as it aired in the 80s, and it was played for laughs, being a comedy.

See also, Three's Company, where Jack Tripper pretends to be gay/uninterested in his hot female roommates, ALSO to fool a landlord.

These characters were ha-ha funny pretend crossdressers and queer people, not actual trans or gay people.

But that does point out how many series were about fooling landlords.

[(Anonymous)]

Now if you want an 80s sitcom that throws up major wtf vibes, let's discuss Small Wonder.

[(Anonymous)]

It gave me NIGHTMARES.

[(Anonymous)]

Can you please expand on that? Never heard of that show.

[(Anonymous)]

Stereotypical nuclear family brings home super-powered robot designed to look like a little girl and pass it off as their adopted daughter, while also kind of treating robokid like a combination robot servant and science project. Shenanigans ensue, but in a slightly more unsettling way than the writers probably intended.

[(Anonymous)]

omg I watched that in syndication on the weekends. That girl was a good actress.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd dig it, OP.