After
we watched the clip in class about the community in Indonesia, I brought up the
point that the program, which was on the History Channel, an American channel,
used a female translators voice in the place of an individual who was
biologically female but identified as a male. I brought up how I thought this was offensive that they
choose to use a female translating into English what the individual was saying,
how although this person was referred to as a he, they would use the female
voice. Society is so stuck on the
gender binary and so scared to step out of their comfort zone and realize that
gender is changing. The media is
very cautious to step away from their viewer’s comfort zone in fear of bringing
the numbers down. Society as a
whole does have a long way to go in stepping out of the norm but there should be more resources made available
as a whole to make this information known.
