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Originally Posted by MMM
"Talents" on Japanese TV are there because there is something they have about themselves that is unique. If they were on TV only to be ridiculed I would be very disturbed, but EVERYONE on TV is ridiculed save a precious few, so I don't think these people are being singled out. I am sure they are being paid and would rather be on TV than not.
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I totally agree, it's what I was trying to get at regarding them not seeming to be any more or less talented than any other "talents" I see on tv here..
I feel it's safe to assume that if they were exactly the same, except not cross-dressers, they wouldn't be on TV.
So it's clearly the primary reason fro them being there.
What I keep wondering is; how is that perceived by the general audience, and is it insulting behavior or liberal and modern?
I'm just still thrown off guard by it, years later, that I still can't figure it out lol