Skirted Character on Cinemax Series "Banshee"

[Caultron]

The Cinemax series Banshee features a supporting character named Job, a skirt-wearing hair stylist and genius computer hacker who plays a key part in the main character's criminal endeavors.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BM ... SY427_.jpg

I know, I know, a tough-guy bald hair stylist wearing a skirt is a little bit hard to reconcile. But maybe it's another small step. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I suspect this is the first recurring male character to appear skirted on a major (albeit cable) TV network

[skirtyscot]

Never heard of the series before, let alone the character. But a quick Google found him, of course. By a majority, commentators say he is a transvestite rather than a man in a skirt.

1 Which is he?
2 Does it matter, vis-a-vis making the idea of men in skirts more generally acceptable?

[crfriend]

There's also the pathetic (modern) stereotype of the "genius computer hacker" being engaged in criminal enterprises which makes Old School hackers really fume.

If somebody wants to refer to what's correctly now known as a "cracker" (itself slanderous to certain Southern Gentlemen (USA)) do so; "hacker" is a position of honour bestowed upon those who can make the most of the limited resources available and produce genius-level results in computing, or, more generally, can produce remarkable things from very little, and do no lasting damage in doing so (especially as a practical joke).

In the computing sense, I shall offer the two scenarios:

• Breaking into somebody else's computer because "it's k3wl" (or I need to send junk mail) -- "cracker"
• Getting torqued off because the machine you have doesn't do precisely what you want and you wire in an extra instruction so it will -- "hacker".

In the practical joke sense, one only needs to look up some of the folklore at MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, aka "The Tute") as some of the practical jokes pulled off there that confounded the authorities (even though, detailed instructions were usually left on how to undo it) but did no lasting damage have entered history (e.g. cop cars atop the main dome).

[Caultron]

Never heard of the series before, let alone the character. But a quick Google found him, of course. By a majority, commentators say he is a transvestite rather than a man in a skirt.

1 Which is he?
2 Does it matter, vis-a-vis making the idea of men in skirts more generally acceptable?

The FX Web site identifies him as a cross-dresser, but the headshave isn't exactly transvestite. So all in all, I'd say he's definitely ambiguous.

[Caultron]

There's also the pathetic (modern) stereotype of the "genius computer hacker" being engaged in criminal enterprises which makes Old School hackers really fume.

This is true; the connotation of the word, "hacker," has definitely changed over time.

[crfriend]

There's also the pathetic (modern) stereotype of the "genius computer hacker" being engaged in criminal enterprises which makes Old School hackers really fume.

This is true; the connotation of the word, "hacker," has definitely changed over time.

And not for the better.

[Caultron]

There's also the pathetic (modern) stereotype of the "genius computer hacker" being engaged in criminal enterprises which makes Old School hackers really fume.

This is true; the connotation of the word, "hacker," has definitely changed over time.

And not for the better.

I agree.

[Sarongman]

This might be as good a place as any to blow the trumpet for Peter S. Ford who is an Australian, but was a news anchorman for CNN in early days of computing. Being fascinated by a small screen Apple, he asked a techie to teach him how to use it. He was a natural at writing programs and soon started moonlighting alongside graduates and Doctoral candidates at one of the U.S. top universities. To cut a long story short, his system has given the voice to Stephen Hawking and others who are severely paralysed by war, accident, MND or any other catastrophe.
For more detail, look him up on Wikipedia.

[Stevie D]

The Cinemax series Banshee features a supporting character named Job, a skirt-wearing hair stylist and genius computer hacker who plays a key part in the main character's criminal endeavors.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BM ... SY427_.jpg

I know, I know, a tough-guy bald hair stylist wearing a skirt is a little bit hard to reconcile. But maybe it's another small step. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I suspect this is the first recurring male character to appear skirted on a major (albeit cable) TV network

The link got scrambled for me. Try this one.

[Sinned]

Still get "Referral denied".

[crfriend]

This might be as good a place as any to blow the trumpet for Peter S. Ford who is an Australian, but was a news anchorman for CNN in early days of computing.

That assertion gave me pause for a moment because CNN wasn't in existence in the early days of computing. CNN is a product of the very early 1980s; "modern" computing, in various recognisable forms, has been around since the 1930s.

To cut a long story short, his system has given the voice to Stephen Hawking and others who are severely paralysed by war, accident, MND or any other catastrophe.

Now that's a hack!

[Stevie D]

Still get "Referral denied".

Hmmm... it works OK for me and I'm only 60 miles away from you.
Perhaps try clearing your web browser cache and then reloading the page.

[ChrisM]

2600 Hz

[Caultron]

Still get "Referral denied".

Yeah, something is screwy with that URL. I think it's customized for each user, to make sure you go in the way they want you to.

Try here:

http://www.tellyprofiles.com/episodes/b ... -hoon-lee/

[crfriend]

2600 Hz

<snicker>