Pandering to less than 1% of the population.
Via Daily Mail:
It is the chilling moment from the classic film Psycho that once seen can never be forgotten.
Deranged motel proprietor Norman Bates, dressed up in his mother’s clothes, launches a murderous knife attack on a defenceless guest in the shower.
But now the scene from the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh has been remade, but with a crucial difference.
Bates is no longer wearing women’s clothes – for fear of damaging the image of the transgender community.
This is despite the fact he wears his mother’s dresses at other moments in the series.
It is the climatic episode in the fifth and final season of US television series Bates Motel starring British actor Freddie Highmore as Norman Bates and singing superstar Rihanna as his intended victim, Marion Crane.
The scene will be screened on the Universal channel in the UK later this year but has already been broadcast in the US, prompting outrage among fans of the original film with one tweeting: ‘Rhianna’s Bates motel shower scene will have Hitchcock turning in his grave.’
Bates Motel writer Kerry Ehrin explained the makers’ sensitivity over the cross-dressing: ‘In none of our minds is that what the story is about.