Emily (77:54)
I'd say in the ladies room, but. Live on cnn. Live on CNN right now. According to new reporting at cbs, internally there is a debate about whether to use the appropriate as the the transgender community sees it, appropriate lingo, assigned sex at birth versus biological sex. Honestly, I don't think either turn of phrase is journalistically correct. Just say sex. You don't even need to say biological sex. It is implied in the word sex. But that's currently a struggle session going on behind closed doors at cbs according to new reporting. And here's Amy Sedaris just going full Strangers with Candy. Full Comedy central circle like 2007. What was the, the character's name? Jerry. Right. Go just all in live on cnn. Jerry Blank. Am I right on that? All in on CNN with incredible joke. Anderson and Andy looked uncomfortable. But of course, of course, if you are somebody who is, I mean, there are a couple of layers to this, right? First of all, saying that and recognizing why it's funny is funny because some dudes be hanging around ladies rooms, some dudes be hanging around ladies rooms these days. And that's just how it is. There was another horrifying video posted by the the inevitable Tish Hyman just a couple of days ago of this happening. It happens all the time. And, man, if you can't laugh at it, it's not funny in every circumstance. There's no question about it. It's a, it's a dangerous situation. It's not good. It's crazy on just so many different levels. But if you can't laugh at it, if you can at least laugh at it, then we have nothing but misery. So props here to Amy Sterris for, for letting that one fly. Love on the New Year's Eve broadcast. If you're somebody who's on the left and, for example, has enjoyed drag for a really long time, there have been some quite interesting, rather interesting analyses of what the trans movement did to drag. There have been some rather interesting analyses about the transgender the trans movement did to lesbian bars. That's a famous one. You can Google it. There's some real complaints that have been boiling among people on the left for a long time that nobody's been comfortable enough kind of airing, let alone, I mean, Chappelle was doing this on Netflix, but it was seen as like sort of a, an unspeakable. His specials were seen as like these just crazy, unspeakable sets that could only happen from Chappelle. And Netflix was super brave for airing them. It's all crazy in and of itself, but see it on CNN was, dare I say, a bit refreshing. All right, finally want to end on a Bravo note. I want to talk a little bit about the new HBO docu series on Mary Cosby. I think we can put this article up on the screen about that docu series because I watched all of it over the break, obviously. And this is a response that Mary Cosby has offered on Instagram to the docu series. It's very vague. She says in a hashtag, don't believe the lies. But basically just reading from this, this rundown. I'm sorry, this is a TLC documentary. I watched it on hbo, because you can watch TLC on hbo. But it's a, it's a really serious glance at Mary Cosby, who is one of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, that, that show goes back. So I think it was 2020. It's, it's five or six seasons in at this point. But the allegations against Mary Cosby, who is the head of a Pentecostal church that was started by her grandmother she's the head of this church now in Salt Lake City. Predominantly black congregation in Salt Lake City. Very charismatic. You can see that from when it airs on the show. These are, again, like, I'm just. They're very, very serious allegations. There's a Christian angle to this, and then there's a broader ang, like, as a Christian, this woman's tagline, I think this was the last season of Housewives was, quote, if you come for me, I will send Jesus after you. Like, she was invoking the Messiah in her tagline, as though she could, quote, send Jesus. I mean, it's heretical. Her entire. Her entire worldview from my perspective is, you know, she's often exuding heretical teachings, which is super dangerous if you're the head of a flock and you're on national television purporting to be a pastor. Like Mary Cosby is the head of the church, like Mary Cosby is. It's called Faith Temple Pentecostal, as this. This rundown says in the production. Cosby's family members and former churchgoers opened up about their alleged experience under the star's leadership. One former member claimed that Cosby and her husband pressured the church into giving large sums of money at, quote, heave offerings. At another point in the series, Cosby's first cousin alleged that the TV personality once had an affair with a church member. Goes on all kinds of accusations along these lines, but basically it's that the church is in some cases framing Mary Cosby as a figure, a prophet like figure who, if you don't listen to Mary Cosby, you are disobeying God. And that is used to pressure people into giving very large sums of money that they can't afford. These are the allegations in the docu series, which Cosby is obviously denying and has denied for a very long time. And Cosby was initially a very splashy addition to the cast because as the docu series goes through, after her grandmother died at the age of 65, Mary Cosby married her grandmother's husband. So she married her step grandfather. She has a son with her step grandfather who, as you can imagine, is significantly, significantly older than she is and is a major player in this church. There are allegations of kind of physical, not sexual, but physical abuse of some people who grew up in the church being made to do activities that were physically abusive, like physical activities that were straining them in undue ways when they were young boys. It's. It's a really. I mean, it's. It's clearly a very ugly atmosphere. And I feel pretty comfortable. You know, I can't verify all of these allegations. I just feel very comfortable as a. As a Christian looking at this and saying, it's not sound, it's not theologically sound. That much is obvious. But I want to just comment from the stake of, from the. The sake of Bravo, because I think it gets in this interesting cancel culture discussion, which is that all of these Real Housewives back in 2020, Ramona Singer, really good example, were being castigated and made to apologize for their various ideological transgressions. And there were these on air, just forced conversations about political correctness. In the different series, people were demanding that imperfect, you know, ideologically, possibly conservative or reactionary or Christian Bravo stars who didn't share. Everyone knows what I'm talking about. Even if you don't watch Bravo, people who didn't share the sort of fully progressive worldview were kind of being dragged on social media. Social media. And there was this idea that they should actually leave the show. And I was writing a lot at the time for the Federalists, saying this idea that your reality television star needs to be a moral hero is insane. That's not what reality television is for. It's certainly not what the Real Housewives for. You are out of the joke. You are. You are missing the joke completely if you're taking the show so seriously that you need moral figures to be cast, cast in these roles of antagonists. And that's what you are if you're on the Real Housewife, You're. You may be in on the joke, but people are laughing at you. They're not laughing with you. And that is definitely the case for most people who watch Mary Cosby say the most bizarre lines. They're funny because they're so weird, but they're so bizarre. And I think the question, you know, there's a major difference between somebody who believes something that you don't like. You know, maybe they're. They're anti BLM or they have questions about the trans movement, whatever, and somebody who is actively perpetuating an abusive scheme as these allegations paint the picture of, based partially on their fame from the Bravo show. And that is the case with Mary Cosby. So I don't excuse myself from the people who find these discussions about where the boundary is interesting, because I do think those are interesting questions. I do think, you know, the discussions about whether, you know, Louis CK's alleged transgression should change the way you view his art. I think it's interesting. I mean, I watched. I love you, daddy. Because the friend got their hands on a copy of it, like while Louis CK Was being canceled. And I thought it made the film. Sadly, it made the film more interesting. And that's what artists do do. And, you know, the commercialization of art has made it so that people sometimes have to think about whether patronizing an artist who is as imperfect as any other human being, if not more imperfect because they are an artist. I'm not saying the housewives of our artists, but some of them are. The point is they're cast because they're bananas and people are artists oftentimes because they're bananas. And the commercialization of that, that does, I think, raise some interesting questions. Do you want to, you know, for me, my answer is always, I don't. For the most part, I'm not drawing the line. I think the question for Bravo, though, I mean, there's obviously huge, practical, prudent liability questions that are now going to be raised about Mary Cosby. But I think there's a serious, genuine moral question as to whether allowing Mary Cosby to promote herself as a good mother on the show, which she does as an upstanding community member, which she does on the show, I mean, this is some somebody who is dripping in designer outfits constantly. And as an evangelical Christian, you're familiar with that or I'm familiar with that because of the entire prosperity gospel narrative. She's showing off her closet that is studded with these designer clothes and shoes and everything under the sun while people are alleging that she was and the church leadership was coercing money out of poor parishioners. So I think it's a question for Bravo right now as to whether her ongoing participation in the show, which did stop for a year, whether or not that's a something perpetuating the alleged abuse that this church, Mary Cosby Miracles Church, and Mary Cosby in particular, seems to be perpetuating allegedly on a lot of a lot of people. So anyway, my two cents on the Bravo Mary Cosby story. Appreciate everybody sticking with me through that one, but I thought it was a pretty interesting cancel culture discussion. We have the great Glenn Green, Glenn Greenwald scheduled for Wednesday, so make sure you're tuning in live at 10pm Eastern. For that, you can shoot me an email over@emilyevilmaycaremedia.com got a lot of fun emails over the break that I will certainly get to. On this week's edition of Happy Hour. I'll reply to as many as I possibly can. But as a Reminder, subscribe on YouTube subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and those those happy hour episodes notes pop in your podcast feed. So if you want to get those where I talk to you through your questions, subscribe wherever you get your podcast and I will see everyone back here again on Wednesday.
