Part 4: Gender
- Episode aired Feb 15, 2019
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Larry examines the way comedians in Saudi Arabia and media stars in Nigeria struggle against or reinforce misogynistic and homophobic attitudes.Larry examines the way comedians in Saudi Arabia and media stars in Nigeria struggle against or reinforce misogynistic and homophobic attitudes.Larry examines the way comedians in Saudi Arabia and media stars in Nigeria struggle against or reinforce misogynistic and homophobic attitudes.
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Dangerous?!?!?!
I was featured in the 4th episode of this documentary, and if there is one word to describe the part I was featured at it would be "DECEIVING".
I will not review the whole series as I have only watched my part, I am saying so in an attempt to be as objective as possible, and honestly its so hard as I feel so angry.
First of all, I was so shocked that I was featured in a documentary about "dangerous comedy", we were not informed at all that the footages which were taken nearly 2 years ago would be handled this way and within the context of (danger), we were doing filming based on a brief that we received that this would be a documentary about the comedy scene around the world and that's why I agreed to be part of it, if I knew beforehand about this treatment of the footages I would not have agreed.
The part about Saudi Arabia was full of misconceptions and stereotypes, this is not the country I live at, this is something in the director's mind, he did not even bother to check his facts before the release, and for me I made a decision long time ago that I will not attempt to convince anyone that (oh we are good, please don't believe the media and all of those misinformation), I am so busy developing myself and contributing to my society and I am not responsible about what other people wants to THINK, facts are there if you want them, but after I watched this "DOCUMENTARY", I just realized why even more and more people are becoming ignorant because we all tend to believe that anything named "documentary" is based on facts, but hell no, agendas are everywhere.
the part about the UTURN company was horrible, the CEO of this company who was featured as male boss who won't give women a chance was the most unfair thing. Mr. Kaswara Alkhateeb is my mentor and he believed in me from day one and although everyone was hesitant at the beginning to give me a hand he took all the chances and supported me and we all grew together. The gentleman who talked in the middle of my interview is my very dear friend and featuring him as a female-freak was horrible and unfair. Another horrible thing was when the director was describing the working environment at UTURN, the question here, what if we do have separate offices for male and female (which is not true about UTURN), why would it be something wrong? why wouldn't it be called difference? What if it's true that people there truly wants to work in separate offices? Why is it so easy to blab about freedom of choice but when people choose something different we perceive them as freaks? the superiority tone in this matter is shocking, GOD, then they lecture us about being open minded, yes this is us and we will not apologize for it, we are different and we expect people who come to us to do a film to have the minimum amount of respect but obviously deception and hypocrisy sells faster.
Being part of this film was a mistake even though my part was OK, but the context is simply shocking and I regret it deeply.
I just remind myself to always watch and listen to anything on media with open mind, agendas are everywhere and in this troubled world with every content maker is just striving for more views and higher ratings, audiences are being victimized with heaps of agenda-driven foul content.
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- hakadi
- Mar 10, 2019
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