Watch the following clip from the show Last Week Tonight, with John Oliver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns8NvPPHX5Y
Write about your reaction. Make sure to address at least the following questions, but also add your own additional thoughts to your reflection if you would like.
- Did anything in the clip surprise you? If so, what? Did you learn anything new?
- What is the overall social issue that Oliver is criticizing? What social structures does he draw on to illustrate his point?
- Describe some of the challenges transgender people still face according to the clip.
- Did this video bring up additional questions for you?
A brief warning: this clip contains a few instances of foul language. Please try to look past those and hear the points that Oliver is making. If you’re interested, John Oliver also covered this topic for the first time 7 years ago; you can watch for yourself to see how things have and haven’t changed in that time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmoAX9f6MOc
Format: Remember, you’re writing directly in the response box. (Or you can write into a Word doc and copy it into the response box.) A thoughtful and thorough response should be in the 600-700 word range; anything substantially shorter likely isn’t thorough enough and may lose points for lack of detail.
