I mean... okay look I'll go there She's a transphobic joke They wrote down one-line snappy ideas for wacky personalities to base a puppet on, on index cards Frank Oz wrote "A truck driver who wants to be a woman"https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1290676032765386754 …
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Everything else *about* Piggy evolved from that, including the idea that it would be hilarious if she had a crush on Kermit and kept hitting on him and eventually actually became his girlfriend It starts with that idea of mocking a bad drag queen
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It's not saying that they actually thought of the character as trans or as cross-dressing after they started actually performing her But that's the core joke It's not speculation, it's right there on the original index card in black and white
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Everyone knows transmisogyny is built on mocking *all* women who "fail femininity" and that therefore, by the commutative property, transmisogyny always turns into mockery and cruelty toward cis women who also "don't pass" It's obvious, but people deny it even so
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But skilled comedians who know how to get America laughing and jeering absolutely know this, and exploit it Read Frank Oz's damn index card It's not a secret
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