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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Yeah, it's just weird. I'd always pinned it as a sexist caricature even if transphobia didn't play into it, but that's there too. A woman performer would presumably still do roughly the same voice and the same gags, and could actually get away with more without it feeling mean
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It's not like there aren't plenty of talented women who'd kill for a chance to work with the Muppets... And it's not like they'd have to really fire the guy who does it now, he'd still have like 3 it so major characters
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