TLC Features Man in a Dress on "Say Yes to the Dress"

There was a time—believe it or not—when television served some modest purpose beyond rotting the minds of its audience into room-temperature gelatin. There was a time when entertainment required talent. When it at least pretended to nod toward decency.

When people tuned in to watch something—not to be psychologically beaten into submission by the grotesque parade of delusion on TLC, a show called Say Yes to the Dress. I find it hard to believe that people actually sit in their living rooms, turn the television on, and are entertained by such trash.

But here we are. 2025 America. Where some poor, hapless soul in an average suburban living room actually sits—probably with a reheated plate of spaghetti, probably with their children in the room, probably without even the faintest twinge of embarrassment—and watches a grown man in a wedding dress moan on national television because, wait for it... he looks like a man in a dress.

Imagine that.

Imagine surviving the Great Depression, storming the beaches of Normandy, or pioneering across a continent filled with wild animals and wilderness only to have your great-grandchildren sit slack-jawed in front of a glowing screen watching a dude in drag melt down because the dress didn’t sufficiently deceive him into believing his own fantasy.

The clip is real. Tragically real. Hideously real. Watch: