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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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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It does bug me a bit that her reemergence as a sort of feminist icon wasn't accompanied by giving the role to a female puppeteer/performer... It wouldn't totally undo the origins of the joke but it'd make the feminist aspect feel less parodic. Wouldn't hurt, anyway
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Yyyyeah knowing that this was the original idea makes it extra uncomfortable that the joke is that Miss Piggy's voice isn't a realistic female voice at all but clearly a man doing baby talk
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