The show clearly treats this with a mocking air, it's pathetic that Douglas doesn't catch on and that this is all he wants from a relationship All they do is "get shitfaced and shag", they never have a serious conversation, the one time she tries he's barely paying attention
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bullrike and
And it may treat April's dilemma as tragic but it ultimately treats her as tragically deluded and wanting the impossible When she starts screaming at Douglas "I'm a woman! What you see in front of you is a woman!" it's treating her as irrational, hysterical
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bullrike and
It PROVES that she's hysterical by having her throw the first punch That's the whole punchline of that scene - that's the basic joke, for anyone who understands comedic timing She protests her womanhood then immediately surrenders it by throwing a punch like a man
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bullrike and
As is the exultant orgy of violence after Douglas wipes the blood from his mouth and goes "You bastard" The internal conflict is gone, he feels no further guilt or remorse, now she's proven she's a man and he can take joy in having a good old man-to-man fight
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bullrike and
The whole humor of this scene, the comic release, is giving the viewer permission to dismiss April's pain after raising the discomfort of it It's okay, she threw the first punch, and it was a good hard one That proves she was always a big strong man all along
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bullrike and
This is classic, fundamental transmisogyny This is THE MINDSET undergirding violence against trans women - the attitude that they're delusional, perverted and most of all they're really men and therefore not vulnerable the way cis women are, fair game for violence
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bullrike and
It is not an original joke, this whole genre and basic format of joke is an ancient tradition of British "cross-dressing" humor People didn't complain back then because transmisogyny is the air we breathe in our society and trans women's voices routinely silenced
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bullrike and
Although I will point out that you could certainly write a story that ends in a woman becoming "hysterical", shrieking in rage that a man is dumping her, then throwing the first punch and this opening the floodgates "allowing" the man to beat her up WITHOUT saying she's trans
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bullrike and
Such stories have been done plenty of times in British humor too Just not so much nowadays, because if you didn't say she was trans, feminists like you would object Because you'd be able to see it as making a joke out of a real life pattern of domestic violence
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bullrike and
But make the reason she's upset be something you agree with ("Well yeah, he had a right to be mad he was tricked") and therefore her "hysteria" actually unreasonable in your eyes, and the equation changes
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Mark her as someone different from you that you can't see yourself in the place of - "She's male, with a man's strength, not vulnerable like real women like me!" - and suddenly watching a man beat up a woman is not only acceptable to you but funny
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