Transparent creator Jill Soloway won the Emmy for Comedy Direction and voiced her happiness at being able to be “part of a movement” by putting queer people at the center of a television series changing the world.
“Thank you to the trans community for your lived lives,” she said before encouraging viewers to “topple the patriarchy.”
Additionally, Kate McKinnon brought home a win early on in the 68th annual Emmy Awards In Los Angeles, snagging the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Saturday Night Live.
The out lesbian star fought back tears as she thanked some of the women she’s imitated in several now-legendary skits, including Ellen Degeneres and Hillary Clinton.
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Sarah Paulson took home the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her portrayal of Marcia Clark in The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. (Paulson is bisexual.)
One of the evening’s standout moments occurred during Jeffrey Tambor’s acceptance speech. The actor claimed the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as transgender woman Maura Pfefferman in Transparent and challenged Hollywood to be more inclusive of trans people.
“Listen to me, I’m not gonna say this beautifully, but to you people out there, you producers and network owners and you agents and you creative sparks, please give transgender talent a chance. Give them auditions. Give them their story,” he said to an applauding audience. “I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female gender on television. We have work to do.”
His sentiments were echoed later in the evening by transgender actress Laverne Cox, who thanked Orange is the New Black creator Jenji Kohan for giving her the opportunity to play her breakout role in the series.
Watch the moving moment from Tambor’s Emmy acceptance speech below.
Xzamilloh
What patriarchy? What right do I as a man have that women do not have? Because I can name a list of biases in the legal system that favor women over men. Child custody cases, domestic violence, lesser sentences for the same crime….if there was a patriarchy, she would not even be in the position she is to earn the money she does. Yeah, take that Emmy speech over to Pakistan.
Brian
I think Jill Soloway is silly. Is she also angry at the patriarchy that brought her into the world and employs her? Silly girl.
ppp111
@Xzamilloh: @Brian:
I think she’s referring to the heterosexual white patriarchy that, let’s admit, is not kind to anyone who isn’t a heterosexual, caucasian, anglo-saxon protestant, cisgender male!
BTW, I do find it amusing when feminists rant about the patriarchy, especially white feminists. When you think about it, the white male may be at the top of the social ladder but who’s second? Yeah, white women. Go figure. That’s why I’m irritated when white feminists complain about the patriarchy that in all likelihood benefitted them at some point in their lives.
Brian
The Emmys are full of conservatives. Note how all the men at the event wear conservative suits. If any of them truly cared about trans people, they would have worn dresses.
Hollywood is conservative at heart.
QJ201
i’m all up for topping the patriarchy
TinoTurner
Too bad season two was a snoozefest…..
Mo Bro
Silly liberals, they think ridding the planet of straight white men will leave them with a perfect utopia of peace and happiness and tolerance, when in reality all it will do is set them back two or three thousand years.
(for current examples of unintended liberal consequence borne of hubris, look no further than our modern urban cities, most of which are 100% Democrat-run, where crime and welfare are rampant and citizens are adamant about their dead-end futures)
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
@ppp111: Heterosexual white men paid for and created Hollywood. If you don’t like it go build you own at your own expense.
ChrisK
@Mo Bro: Btw. that analogy made zero sense.
Mo Bro
@ChrisK: The analogy was simply an example of the unintended consequences of liberal ideology, the kind of ideology that suggests everything would be perfect without straight white men (ignoring of course the fact that straight white men are mostly who created the world we live in). The liberal realm is full of women who demonize men, blacks disparaging whites, gays trashing straights, and the ensuing message becomes straight white men, aka The Man, are the enemy.
Scottsdale
Come on Mo Bro, at least use an example that makes sense.
Urban cities, the ones with the highest population? You mean they have the highest rates of crime? Who would have thought that when they are triple the population of other cities and towns? Especially since a lot of homless transients move to thise cities because those cities offer them serviced unlime where they come from.
Interesting that when you look at the rates of welfare a lot of them are from red states, tending to outnumber blue states. You don’t say?
Take their efforts back thousands of years? I don’t see anyone walking around like cavemen, hunting and gathering.
ppp111
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou:
Dude, turn it down a notch. I wasn’t agreeing with her I just pointed out what she’s referring to. I like straight white men. They pay for all the shit liberals ask for!