You might not have found the episode funny but where exactly is the transphobia? Or the misogyny?
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If you don't understand the misogyny behind sexual stereotypes, then
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I totally do, that’s why I don’t tell children who don’t conform to them that they were born in the wrong body. The IT Crowd is a comedy not a how-to guide. The episode was taking the piss out of sex stereotypes and transphobia, I’m ok with that.
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Making a joke with a message of, "Obviously if someone likes sports, they are really a man, no woman would like sports," is misogyny. It's just that simple.
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We all just avoiding talking about how the end of that episode is Matt Berry repeatedly punching Lucy Montgomery in the face or what
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It’s an over the top representation of a fight in the style of action movies - do you think joke representations of fights are unique to this episode? Or do you oppose to any depiction of violence at all?
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I oppose the depiction of a man beating up a woman as some kind of triumphant defense of his masculinity
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Again: I’m not sure you got the joke. Let me help you here: the butt of the joke is the transphobe. It’s an anti-transphobic episode, not an anti-trans episode.
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Explain how the transphobe is the butt of the joke. Explain how the man who beat the woman up because "It’s not you, it’s me. No actually, it’s not me, it is you" is the butt of the joke.
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Have you actually watched the episode? Here’s
@DebbieHayton’s view on it:https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/channel-4-s-bizarre-it-crowd-ban …6 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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