Here's the email I sent, tried to be civil n such:
to: amelia@punchedinthehead.com
subject: True Life Exploitation
"I, among many, recently seen spam posting casting calls for your MTV True Life 'reality' show on FetLife.com. The ad sounded far too ridiculous to be real, so I did some background checking and came to your site. I am not easily offended, but I was today...
After reading through all of your casting call titles; GenderQueer, TransParent, Taboo Attraction, Becoming a Cyborg, Avenging Revenge Porn...
It became very obvious that you do not take the LGBTQ community seriously and only seek to exploit Transgender/Genderqueer individuals as a Reality TV Circus Sideshow!
Your site claims to "specialize in eye-opening, perspective-changing stories about real people" yet your ludicrous and insensitive casting ads -- especially placed next to other up-and-coming episodes of "I'm Becoming a Cyborg"?!? -- CLEARLY shows your TV show is as much of a real documentary as Jerry Springer was!
Your show comes across as exploitative, insensitive, that uses GQ/TG and people of the Kink community as objects of curiosity and amusement for fame and financial gain!
Tabloid style headlines and Jerry Springer-esque drama has created misconceptions WHERE PEOPLE HAVE DIED FROM MURDER OR SUICIDE!!! THIS is real life! I seriously and sincerely ask that you reconsider your TV topics. Exploitative sensationalizing damages our community! Ignorance harms and kills real people! Is this what you're striving for? Wake up! Do you even give a damn about the people you are exposing and exploiting??
I am angry, offended, and actually disturbed that in 2015 people in LGBTQ community, my community, are still seen as a sideshow joke to you people! I will be seeking legal advice regarding possible action should these topics be improperly represented.
Thank you for your time, I've wasted enough of mine!
Lananonymous"
to: amelia@punchedinthehead.com
subject: True Life Exploitation
"I, among many, recently seen spam posting casting calls for your MTV True Life 'reality' show on FetLife.com. The ad sounded far too ridiculous to be real, so I did some background checking and came to your site. I am not easily offended, but I was today...
After reading through all of your casting call titles; GenderQueer, TransParent, Taboo Attraction, Becoming a Cyborg, Avenging Revenge Porn...
It became very obvious that you do not take the LGBTQ community seriously and only seek to exploit Transgender/Genderqueer individuals as a Reality TV Circus Sideshow!
Your site claims to "specialize in eye-opening, perspective-changing stories about real people" yet your ludicrous and insensitive casting ads -- especially placed next to other up-and-coming episodes of "I'm Becoming a Cyborg"?!? -- CLEARLY shows your TV show is as much of a real documentary as Jerry Springer was!
Your show comes across as exploitative, insensitive, that uses GQ/TG and people of the Kink community as objects of curiosity and amusement for fame and financial gain!
Tabloid style headlines and Jerry Springer-esque drama has created misconceptions WHERE PEOPLE HAVE DIED FROM MURDER OR SUICIDE!!! THIS is real life! I seriously and sincerely ask that you reconsider your TV topics. Exploitative sensationalizing damages our community! Ignorance harms and kills real people! Is this what you're striving for? Wake up! Do you even give a damn about the people you are exposing and exploiting??
I am angry, offended, and actually disturbed that in 2015 people in LGBTQ community, my community, are still seen as a sideshow joke to you people! I will be seeking legal advice regarding possible action should these topics be improperly represented.
Thank you for your time, I've wasted enough of mine!
Lananonymous"