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Disney/ABC’s long-running game show Celebrity Family Feud broke new ground, or more accurately sank to a new low, last Thursday when it featured its first all-transgender team. Predictably, the episode fairly crackled with sexual double entendres, with actor Laverne Cox and his “chosen family” competing with another team to raise money for – wait for it – black trans prostitutes. Just another wholesome family viewing experience in America.
In an Instagram video posted prior to the episode’s airing, Cox (get it?) introduced his fellow trans contestants, saying, “We’re at Celebrity Family Feud, and I am here with my chosen family, my dear sisters Mila Jam, Joslyn De Freece, TS Madison, and Peppermint.”
Let’s be clear: a band of fame-hungry, mentally ill and biologically unrelated freaks does not constitute a “family,” although this is precisely what Disney/ABC is trying to normalize: that any arrangement of consenting adults, of any sexual orientation including polyamory, can be a family. The intent here is to push for a redefinition of the very word – or more precisely, to erase the bourgeois definition of the nuclear family consisting of a married man and woman and their biological children. The cultural Marxist Left’s primary goal, as Karl Marx himself sought, is the abolition of the family, because that bond is the first and last line of defense against the Marxist collective. To establish the State as the parental stand-in for all of society, the nuclear family must be deconstructed and delegitimized, and if Laverne Cox and his partners in perversion can be a family, then “family” has no meaning at all.
TS Madison, a former porn performer, added in the Instagram video that “Team Laverne” would be competing in Celebrity Family Feud to raise money for the TS Madison Starter House, partnered with NAESM, a nonprofit organization that provides resources for black gay and bisexual men affected by HIV/AIDS. “The TS Madison Starter House,” Madison explained, “is a re-entry house for system-impacted trans women.” The charity more honestly describes itself as “an innovative housing initiative designed to support and empower black trans women engaged in sex work.” [Emphasis added]
For those of you who have better things to do with your lives than keep up with the Left’s relentless manipulation of language, “sex work” is their euphemism for prostitution, which they also hope to normalize. In any morally sane society prostitution should be discouraged, but the Left doesn’t want a morally sane society; it wants to annihilate middle-class values by removing moral judgements from transgressive behavior like selling your body for sex.
In the video, Cox then chimes in, exclaiming, “Hallelujah, honey! We’re gonna have some fun, we’re gonna make some money for charity, and we’re gonna look good doing it,” before asking Madison, “Don’t we look cute?”
“Yes, honey,” Madison replied, to which Cox declared, “We look good.”
Yeah… no, you don’t. You all look and act like grotesque, offensive parodies of women. It’s not cute or attractive or sexy; it’s actually repellant, misogynistic, and not a little bid demonic.
One of the tragic aspects of this mentally ill cosplaying as women (it rarely runs in the other direction, with women pretending to be men) is the way it reduces one’s full humanity to the very narrow range of sexuality. It’s as if they have no other dimensions to their personality. They have willfully diminished their own identity to genitalia and sexual orientation. Maybe this pays off temporarily for some in terms of money and fame, like Laverne Cox and TS Madison, especially in a culture that validates and even celebrates transgenderism as brave and liberating, but what a sad waste of one’s humanity.
In the Celebrity Family Feud episode itself that night, host Steve Harvey asked if he could simply refer to Madison as “TS,” to which the trans contestant replied, “Of course,” adding, “Listen, I take it short or long” — a cringeworthy, unsubtle line that brought a cheer from the easily titillated audience and prompted Harvey’s trademark mortified facial expression.
“Steve Harvey, it’s okay to free ball, we’re free balling today, all day!” Madison added in a complete non sequitur. Again, for those of you whose minds don’t perpetually wallow in the gutter, “free balling” refers to going underwear-free beneath one’s clothing. How was this comment even relevant, much less funny to anyone mentally older than thirteen?
Cox then jumped in, riffing on the word “ball”: “Some of us are without the ‘b’ word, so some of us are free, and some of us have set them free” — referring to transvestites who have had their male genitalia removed surgically. This exchange too elicited roars of laughter from Harvey’s lowest-common-denominator audience.
“Mine is named Chucky!” Madison declared, though no one had asked. “Friends ‘til the end!” Congratulations, TS, I hope the notoriety is worth the self-debasement.
I’m no prude – indeed, I wish I had been much more of one during my dissolute younger years – but there should be a time and place for sexualized humor, and a family game show is not it, although I know Family Feud and its celebrity spinoff have always routinely engaged in such juvenile wordplay. This kind of crude behavior is part of the reason decent people feel demoralized and marginalized by our decadent culture.
But the vulgarity of the show is the least concerning issue. More serious is Disney/ABC’s gender ideology activism, the network’s assault on the family and its intentional normalization of behavior that should be the domain of mental health professionals, not game show celebrity.
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