Courtney Act (aka Shane Jenek) on sexuality, gender fluidity, and unconscious bias
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- This is an excerpt from the latest episode of our podcast, Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore. Watch the rest of the interview here:
My guest today is an international drag sensation, winning hearts and minds during their multiple TV show appearances in Australia, the UK, and the USA.
The blonde bombshell’s rise to stardom was propelled by their appearance on Ru Paul’s Drag Race Season 6. And, in 2018, they faced off with Ann Widdecombe to become the winner of Celebrity Big Brother UK.
But, the challenge of loving themselves in a heteronormative world wasn’t always so easy.
Singer, drag queen, all round entertainer. You may know my guest as Courtney Act, but today they are here as Shane Jenek.
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These interviews are so important! Thank you @joe xx
So much of this rings true to me. I am a nonbinary fem presenting male. Most of the men I get with identify as straight or maybe bi. Many would not openly be with me because of the social stigma. I am confident that in the future instead of 'straight' and 'gay', which denotes attraction to men or women, the two main sexualities will denote attraction to masculinity or femininity.
Why should it be anyone else’s business? You have a right to be yourself AND you have a right to privacy, the sooner people realise they don’t have a right to know your personal lifestyle the better for everyone! You should accept people for their personality and humanity!
A gay man is a man that is attracted to other men. Nothing to do with how feminine or masculine that man is. If a women is masculine, maybe what they may have once referred to as a "tomboy" then she is still a woman. If a man like myself is a bit feminine or camp then he is still a man. Why do we need to change our gender identity to try and highlight our personalities or character? And I don't know what a non-binary fem-presenting man is? Could you explain?
i feel stupid to have brought into the "bimbo" persona that was portrayed on drag race. she raises very intelligent points and she's very articulate. kudos to her!
She? Whos she?
@@TheHonestJock courtney. i wasn't sure what pronouns to use so i thought i'd go with the safest, in-offensive option and refer to her by her drag persona/pronouns.
She?........... it's a Male
@@thedragonsunicornnot a criticism but I'd generally just use "they" as the safest pronoun to use
*bought
You stated it was a white western issue. However, it doesn't take much research to find that regardless of gender, geography, religion, race. It's an every person condition to a greater or lesser extent.
conditioning isn't the issue, thats just people existing in any culture, the issue is what is that conditioning, is it rooted in good or bad things, does it lead to people being nice or cruel to eachother etc.
The West has been brainwashed by the post 1945 Liberal paradigm and is now destroying itself
Not bothered, it was the impression was given that it only applied to while western males. Which is nonsense.
@@evolassunglasses4673 O K N A Z !
@@markmason2616they specifically said a western issue. Colour was not brought into it and you are displaying the reductive shock that they described by the statement.
Kylie _is_ universal!
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👏👏👏brilliant Courtney💝👍🌻🌈☮️🍀🧚♂️🌊thank you
Is it just me or did I hear “for men BI men”
Everything about this interview was great. Except the last second dismissal of asexuality.
"Would you date a trans woman?"... this question genuinely changed my life
Care to elaborate?
great interview, but horrible abrupt ending!
P.S. (because this browser won't let me edit comments) can the link to this whole episode be posted please? I have some people I need to show this to! :D
I completely agree that we live in a society that conditions people to have certain inbuilt thoughts and opinions, and that is something that needs to be recognised and when called for challenged. I do however think we have gone way past the stage of simply challenging outwardly racist, sexist, misogynist etc. opinions; the world has lost it's ability to judge context and therefore everything gets challenged and it divides the masses further. I'm struggling to exactly say it as I mean it but I just think that everyone needs to take a step back, take a deep breath, and stop just throwing hate on top hate !!
85% of the World isn't brainwashed in the Western Liberal paradigm. It's the West that's out of step.
@@evolassunglasses4673 "the lady doth protest too much methinks"
Love those words, "Everyone can get laid more". Excellent 😛🥰
Could someone please explain to me how you could know you feel like the opposite sex, when you've never experienced being the opposite sex? We're not supposed to presuppose people's personal experiences with things like mental illness, but we can know what the experience of the opposite sex is?
Are we not reducing gender down to a matter of identity you switch on or off, rather than a matter of broader biology? Objectively, people wouldn't have a darn clue if they know they feel like their 'unassigned' sex. Struggling to identify with your own sex doesn't mean you automatically qualify for being the other sex.
Does it really matter that someone feels that it’s not right for them to be in their body and that they would prefer to be someone else?
Why talk about semantics when we should be talking about someone’s life?
@@juliewake4585 Then really we should be helping them to accept their body, as they actually are their body. Their mind cannot work in another body. These things aren't separable.
Far better to help someone accept themselves for who they are than start hacking away with meds and surgery in the hope that eventually they'll ask you to stop.
Why do you care?
@@aituk gracious. Why would you care how other people want to express themselves? Why can’t we just accept people for what they are?
Explain how you feel like the gender you are, then imagine how you would feel if you couldn’t express that gender, and there’s your answer
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Gender dysphoria is the only mental health condition where we affirm the patient's beliefs instead of trying to convince them of reality.
Lets stop doing that first and we might make some real progress on actually helping people who suffer with this.
I'm not saying this person has gender dysphoria just to be clear, I don't know their situation. A lot of men do just get off on this stuff and have jumped on the bandwagon so it's seen as more acceptable.
Probably because literal science shows that being transgender isn’t a choice and that transitioning makes the person with gender dysphoria much happy and fulfilled. The internet is widely available, please use it to do research
Why tf are you bringing up trans issues on a discussion about sexuality?
Trans people are fully aware of reality. Gender dysphoria simply means they're made unhappy by the traits and characteristics of their birth sex. No amount of "have you tried growing a really bushy beard?" is going to change that for trans girls who are born that way.
If you genuinely think that electro shock therapy and every other torture under the sun wasn't tried in the last century to stop trans people being trans you're kidding yourself. Transition is the ONLY thing that's been shown to cure/lessen the effects of gender dysphoria, something you'd know if you'd looked into this properly.
"Gender dysphoria" is barely 2 decades old as a diagnosis rooted in trying to medicalise human experience, it is not the root or cause of sex/gender bending/changing. Sex/gender bending/changing has existed in every human society in history.
The Left are dieing on the wrong hills
Kylie, the shouty Australian dwarf.
So sorry, the "magic" don't work on me.
I do not mean this in any bigoted way (though I guess it will be seen so), but I have often wondered whether the more camp gay men have the XXY chromosome, or is it a learned process?
That's an entirely different thing from a sexual identity though and you are conflating it with being intersex
maybe the answer is both. Guess it's down to the individual.
It's chemistry, low testosterone makes you feminine, same thing happened to eunuchs.
Feminine and masculine traits don't really have much to do with sexuality. People are who they are and we have learned to describe certain behaviours as either. A masculine woman is not a lesbian by default etc.
Hmmm I'm naturally quite camp and was extremely camp as a child but I have trained myself to be more "masculine" although that often results in me being quite reserved and introverted. 🤷♂️ I think being camp is demonstrably a natural trait; however, that doesn't mean science has an explanation for it way of chromosomes, a bit like sexuality.
This person is clearly trying to confuse people.
How so?
only if you're easily confused.
Only you sweetie
I AM NOT CONFUSED......GET...OUT.......(slaps back of head)
I think you're confused