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MTV's REAL WORLD Tonight Gets Its First Transsexual Castmate!!
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After setting its 1992 and 2001 seasons in Manhattan, “The Real World” heads across the East River to Brooklyn for 12 new hourlong episodes launching tonight. It’s the first season in HD and marks the first time the show is starting with eight roommates instead of seven. Those eight are:
i) Chet Cannon, 23, SLC punk Republican fratboy Mormon virgin who wants to host TV shows for a living.
ii) Ryan Conklin, 23, guitar-strumming Iraq War vet and aspiring filmmaker once assigned to guard Saddam Hussein.
iii) Katelynn Casanelli, 24, computer geek, Tae Kwon Do black best and the first female cast member to be born with a penis.
iv) Scott Herman, 23, personal trainer, model, actor voted “best abs on the East Coast” by Men’s Health.
v) J.D. Ordonez, 22, homosexual competitive swimmer and dolphin trainer.
vi) Sarah Rice, 22, bisexual sexually abused artist.
vii) Devyn Simone, 20, theatre student and 2005 Miss American Teen.
viii) Baya Voce, 21, non-Mormon SLC resident, hip-hop deejay, aspiring dancer and sufferer of panic attacks.
Learn what they look like here.
2009 marks the series’ 17th year, which means we’re on the verge of getting cast members who weren’t even born when first-season castmates Julie Gentry and Kevin Powell were screaming at each other on the streets of SoHo.
One hears ratings for MTV’s glacially paced, less-real reality show “The Hills” are plummeting and that its flaccid spin-offs “The City” and “Bromance” are off to viewer-challenged starts. I’m hopeful this overstaged-vanity-show fad is going the way of “American Gladiators.” I much prefer the product from the Bunim-Murray shop, which is much better about limiting its casts’ ability to manipulate the way they’re portrayed.
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"I love love love DR. HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG BLOG as much or more than just about anything I’ve seen this year." -- Harry Knowles
"I love love love DR. HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG BLOG as much or more than just about anything I’ve seen this year." -- Harry Knowles
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Who watches this shit anymore?
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Jan 07, 2009 2:08:27 PM CST
When people stop being polite, and start getting real...
by helpful electronic lab partner robot
The Crying Game.
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Penis or not.
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hopefully they'll have the tranny do the bisexual chick in the confessional room
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Jan 07, 2009 2:32:14 PM CST
'We're becoming irrelevant! Quick, let's add a tranny!'
by lefty lefterson
Just sayin'.
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What kind of hazing rituals did that frat have? Must have been one step shy of Lambda Lambda Lambda.
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Nothing like a good homophobia-trawling headline to really elevate the level of the discussion, eh?
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Outside of possibly the Country Music Channel, or C-Span, MTV has become the most boring, ANNOYING, and just downright stupid channel on modern TV. It's a blight on humanity and on contemporary youth itself that anybody actually watches the utter garbage that this channel churns out year after year, and this is coming from someone who loved the first 3 or 4 seasons of the real world. MY Super Sweet 16 may be the worst show I've ever seen in my 32 years on this planet.
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Seriously, I don't even know anymore. 5 years ago I could tell you about what awful programs they were airing that I was not watching. But now I not only do not watch MTV, I don't even know what shows they have. Evidently, they still have the real world. Sorry for useless comments.
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I was just thinking about that cartoon The Head. MTV should bring stuff like that back. Better than Irrelevant Tranny World and The Dulls.
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the picture in the TRON post.
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when I read Herc's description, I was kinda dissapointed that it sounded like a post-op (takes all the fun out of it), but looking at the picture, MTV could do better. There are some pre-op cuties out there that could make a whole generation of MTV-watching douchebags question their relationship with the cock, with hillarious results. totally wasted.
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Didn't past seasons have like 3,495 episodes per season?
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1. It's about 3 years too late for MTV to gain any kind of ahead-of-the-curve hipness points for setting the show in Brooklyn. 2. "Bisexual sexually abused artist" probably describes every female cast member they've had in the last 10 years.3. They're also about 8 years too late to realize any edginess factor from casting a transgendered person.
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Now, I would watch a whole season of this: http://tinyurl.com/madreal
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Too right, mate... god if that TRON 2 pic doesn't get guys to quit smoking, I dunno what will.
And it's funny how things happen. Back when MTV first came out it was cooler than cool, and I was a hopeless horny dork. Now some 30-odd years later, MTV is hopeless, horny, and dorky, and I am friggin' Shaft. Well, not quite. But almost. Someone please kill MTV. Please. -
It seems every season of this show has to have a Mormon, a gay dude, and a bisexual woman. Even when they they try to create a controversial season, they are are repetitive.
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and is it preventable?
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You seriously have some of the most retarded tv tastes. Just because you like to watch this shit doesnt mean it deserves a fucking article on here. The Real World stopped being relevant around 1995. Why cant you put up articles for Chuck or Supernatural or ANYthing talkbackers keep asking for all the goddamn time.
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when did she decide that's the career she was gonna go for?
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Let me get this straight. The show is actually going to include a transgendered sexually abused competitive swimming dolphin that suffers from panic attacks AND once televised hip-hop dance shows featuring Saddam Hussein??? Count ME in!!! Wait, what? Oh ... oh, right. I see now. Damn my faulty speed reading to Hell. Once again it tricked me into believing that my Real World dream roomate scenario had finally come to pass. Without that dolphin, this show will be contrived and sucky after all.
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who really cares... or even watches MTV for that matter.
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Actually, tiny speedos makes sense.
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I was just thinking about that show! And The Maxx. I have them on tape but I haven't watched them in forever.
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Jan 07, 2009 7:14:51 PM CST
This show is now a casting session for the Challenges
by chester_desmond
Meh.
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Haven't given 2 rancid shits about The Real World since they kicked Puck off.
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How'd that work out for Mr. Garrison? Really, how is encouraging the confusion a healthy thing?
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you may think i'm biased. i've worked closely with a trans-woman on a series of science-fiction short films. yes, even your treasured industry is being invaded by those of non-normative sexuality. The horror, indeed.
You think a life like that is easy? To feel like you were born in the wrong body? As many of the children present have pointed out, transsexuals were confused. That is why they have the surgery. To ease their confusion. MTV may not be my favorite channel (alright i hate most of that shit) but notice that in their website's description of this cast member, they refer to Katelynn as a woman. Not a trans-woman, but a woman. MTV acknowledges that a person can be born with a gender that may not match up with his/her sex. They don't draw attention to it, or even mention it on their site, from what i can tell. For a show that normally revels in stereotypes, it seems that they are showcasing people with complex identities, people who had to do a shitload of soul-searching to decide on who they are. hell, they even chose a fratboy who doesn't drink. not your standard cardboard cut-outs.
redshirt: they are not encouraging confusion. they are encouraging the alleviation of confusion.
loserguy3000: GLAAD and similar groups think it's OK to change one's own identity. they are against an individual being told by another person what to do about his/her body. not hypocritical, makes perfect fucking sense to me. -
and i'm as straight as they come..do any other straight guys ger horny from shemale or tranny porn...and anybody have a reason as to why i it's so hot?
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This show has been god awful for years. Yet another reason I don't watch MTV anymore. The best shows are the "challenge" shows where they bring back real worlders from ten years ago, still milking the gravy train, still no real job, still no self respect, still slutty and crazy. Paaaaathetic.
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That's what she says at least. Man, the ego on that hot bitch! I totally want her. Have you seen her rack?!
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I believe a few women are born with the XXY chromosome combination at birth. They're still women from the time of birth genitalia and otherwise ...
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Jan 08, 2009 12:44:16 AM CST
IndyAbbey Jones, my sweet little bastard.
by youareallmybastardchildren
I admit that I am partially responsible for bringing you into a strange time with its equally strange sexual practices. Tranny porn can be hot b/c some of them actually get dolled up with long feminine hair, big implants, loads [hehe, LOADS] of makeup and fake tans, AKA resemble women. And if you can't see their dong then your brain thinks, "Hey, that's a female. I love females. I love tits. I love fucking females and fucking tits." T-girls doing women is totally hot as hell! It looks like two hot women going at it albeit one has a real cock and not a strap-on. It's hetero while playing to the male fantasy of two chicks screwing. NOTE: Be sure to only watch trannies doing women...otherwise it's actually two dudes. NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT. HEHE. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. So...yeah
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I've never really been a fan of The Real World and only caught a few episodes growing up, to get a gist of what this thing was about. However, judging by the recent articles about Real World popping up all over the internet, it seems that MTV is catering to a much younger demographic than when I first heard of this show, which is about 10-11? This being said, the cast, in my opinion, is kind of a diverse reflection of the youth today, going through things like gender identity crisis, homosexual and conservative issues, child abuse as well as service in the military (where some kids' older siblings are currently partaking). These are all relevant issues today and worth checking out. I agree with the comment made earlier that it maybe 8 years to late to be edgy, but I feel it's still relevant towards the younger demographic. Who knows, they might learn something through the experiences of this new cast.
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Puck was the first transsexual. He was a pussy. Har...! But, really, he was.
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That's fucking hilarious. Really.
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A parody of what?
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really? "FACT"? do you know that some women are born with XY chromosomes yet no testosterone receptors, resulting in a female brain, puberty, and genitalia. look up androgen insensitivity syndrome, and then get back to us with your latest "facts". Oh, you might want to get a college degree to supplement your junior-high-level biology background.
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Way to trawl for hits. Instead of trying to educate your audience, you're pushing a lowest-common-denominator "let's sensationalize the transsexual" mentality. You did this with ANTM too. Aren't you better than that?
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had it on while i was working, more out of morbid curiosity about how my home here in the 718 would be represented (best line by yokel: every time someone mentions Brooklyn all the Brooklynites cheer like crazy) but was stunned. What the fuck happened at MTV? This year's cast have genuine complications but at the same are utterly banal young people. None of the borderline drunken orgying of old. These actually did strike me as interesting real people evocative of the current crop of early 20 year old ones, shoehorned into a fake depiction... But the cast this year is maybe the strongest ever who actually have some background that's fascinating. No drunken slutbags or herpes receptors. Even the one bit of embarassing drunkeness resolved itself as indicative of something actually non trivial - a guarded smartass who served in iraq for three years and has some issues about it he hasn't faced up to yet - most of all how fucked up the experience was. i don't know i just have a lot more time for that than any of the alcohol induced douchebags that have been this show for years.
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Either they're total alcoholic sluts or virgin Mormons.
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Her vagina's smaller than the eye of a needle.
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No offense, but I am betting MTV is calling this castmember a woman and promoting her as such, not to be sensitive to her situation, but to exploit her with the shock value when the roommates and the viewers find out she used to be a male. I bet they were hoping that she would get some romantic sparks going with another member of the cast who was probably male and straight and then try to get huge ratings by his reaction when he finds out the truth about her situation. If you notice that in her bio there is no mention of her being a transexual and the online promos show that she has a big secret, but never reveals what it is. Please do not give MTV credit in this one, they look to be no different than people who would say horrible things about a transexual. Depending on how they handle the situation, they may be far worse.
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Did anyone catch the ad for Damages, which was airing at the same time? It even ended with the words "right now, on FX." Can you really just poach viewers like that?
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...somebody bites his dick off and runs through the house with it- bloody good TV right there.
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really hot, check out some of the stuff Vanity has done where shes fucks a housewife..hottest shit ever
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Seriously... They had a transexual first and they don't get any props.
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Real World sucks. So does all the other garbage on there. Then again, I'm 34 and haven't been their target audience for about, oh I don't know, ten or twelve years.
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Good lord, I remember watching this when Clinton was campaigning for his first term. Got bored with it after the season with Puck. Nobody is watching MTV thesedays anyway. Maybe people would come back in they, you know, actually played MUSIC on that channel.
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This is bold television. SOMETHING THAT WILL HARKEN MTV as the first of whatever is going on in the world? This fake docu series that has plagued us with spin-offs like the tired SURVIVOR and the Amazing around the world show for losers-- sorry I don't remember the title for the show-- and show for fat people to lose weight, and actresses who never had a shot in the entertainment industry as a paid actress THIS Include soap operas and commercials waste what left of their looks to be a bachelorette or a bachelor's whore. I've had enough, ENOUGH of these tired and very boring gimmicks. What happened to MTV? They're still doing things which was kinda bold 13 years ago. It's pathetic. The networks feels like a retarded version of the Disney Channel and I'm trying to be nice about this. It's time to pull the plug on this network.
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Even when it's not violent, it causes harm.
i'm a t-girl. The XXY thing that a few are struggling with is called 'Klinefelter's Syndrome', and it's very real, and present in some transsexuals. But there's also something else called Harry Benjamin's Syndrome. Your sex organs develop at 12 weeks, but then something goes horribly wrong with the body chemistry of the mother, and at 16 weeks the fetus takes a u-turn and develops a mind of the opposite gender.
It takes multiple suicide attempts for some to accept who they are, as it was for me. But transsexuals like me take the heat and bad press generated by transgenders who don't actually want the final surgery, and worse, transvestites who are simply playing dress up for their own sexual deviance.
Recognize that a few of us have an actual medical condition, and have had lives of confusion and crushing despair which we are now setting right.
Or don't recognize us as human beings, and let the bigoted hate fly. It's your choice on what kind of person you want to be. -
http://www.isna.org/faq/y_chromosome
What a surprise: an AICN story about this subject brings out the worst in everyone. Sad. -
3 out of 8 are gay, is this a fair representation of the Real World? I don't have anything against Transsexuals but they all clearly have mental problems. Clearly.
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