Natius: the first gay mayor to marry a transgender woman (to somebody else, I hasten to add)
Has the public service broadcaster gone mad?
A transgender person marries under amended legislation and TVM’s headline is not about the transgender marriage but about the gay mayor who conducted it.
Except that they leave this bit out, of course – even though a man who is as camp as a row of tents performing the marriage service for a transgender woman adds greatly to the – how shall I put it? – cinematic appeal of the scenario.
So instead of a TVM headline that says FIRST TRANSGENDER MARRIAGE IN MALTA (which is the real news), we get THE FIRST MAYOR TO CONDUCT A TRANSGENDER MARRIAGE IN MALTA (which is no news – civil marriages are always performed by a mayor or public servant).
The whole thing appeals to my skewed sense of comedy. All they needed was Zoolander in the front row. But we’re not allowed to say that, are we, because these things are serious and we have to be suitably po-faced, Hallmark-cardish and politically correct about them.
Oh, right.
And of course, Jo was at the wedding, because like all nerds from the sticks raised in a repressive and backward environment, he thinks that he’s breaking some kind of social barrier (rather than just his own and those of his narrow-minded upbringing) by hanging out with homosexuals and transgender people, that it is ever so daring and cool, instead of just plain normal, which is what it is to the rest of us.
The reason people like me don’t seek the society of people like the mayor of Zurrieq is not because he’s gay but because he’s crass, vulgar, ignorant and has an intelligence quotient below pavement level.
Incidentally, he’s not only the first mayor to perform a transgender marriage. He’s also the first mayor to have a restraining order slapped on him by the courts, and the first mayor to be fined Eur2,500 for harassing somebody in the street.
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http://www.tvm.com.mt/news/l-ewwel-sindku-li-zewweg-persuna-trans-fmalta/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
So what they’ve basically done is placed the focus onto one of their own. Their journalism standards have plummeted since March 2013
Priceless, just priceless. Monty Python clip, of course!
I am far from being politically correct, so: why is that big fat poof wearing a Tyrolean jacket?
[Daphne – It’s Chinese, not Tyrolean. He probably got it made when he went on holiday to China and posted pictures of himself there all over Facebook. They must have been astonished at the size. In China, a woman’s size 12 in tailor-made silks is XXXL.]
Yes you are right, it is a traditional Chinese jacket.
The quality of that photograph is so bad that NASA called and it wants its Curiosity Rover camera back.
I love it how they play at Priests and Churches.
I am told (I stand to be corrected) that church role play and play involving doll houses in the form of churches is very common in the south.
That Hans… ….er Natius is so hot right now.
But can he do ‘Magnum’?
And if this was such an event, why don’t we get to see the bride?
Have there been many civil marriages in Malta conducted by mayors?
[Daphne – Yes, it’s routine.]
What do you mean about hanging around transgenders and homosexuals? Mhux nies ukoll?