Tfw you realize the standard transphobic jokes everyone was telling 10 yrs ago now read like that part of Eddie Murphy's Rawhttps://twitter.com/destroyed4com4t/status/835370940913577984 …
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Tfw you realize the standard transphobic jokes everyone was telling 10 yrs ago now read like that part of Eddie Murphy's Rawhttps://twitter.com/destroyed4com4t/status/835370940913577984 …
Arthur Chu added,
I do think we haven't reckoned with that yet - all your Liberal Favs (Jon Stewart, Colbert, Stephen Fry) have shat on trans ppl for laughs
This reads a bit like you're drawing an equivalency between those three and Maher, which I can't get behind. The sad fact is,
if you're trans, EVERYONE in comedy, possibly everyone in the media in general, is going to take at least one massive dump on
you, so it all comes down to how you react when you do it in front of a big enough audience to really get called out. I wrote
a big long (and in retrospect terrible) thing on this back when The Nightly Show first started because that was the best I've
seen. He did a bunch of REALLY bad anti-trans stuff, got called out, pretty well fixated on the subject until he got his head
properly around it, and by the end of the show's run, hey, he's one of the few cis people I trust to discuss trans issues.
yeah, most of this shit comes out of lazy acculturation to what's "inherently funny" (shocking/transgressive)
unfortunately ppl really attached to their self-image as smart funny liberals let it become personal animus when challenged
that was the repeated confused response from comics re: Caitlyn Jenner jokes - "But it's inherently funny!"
and, I mean, that's the actual content of the Eddie Murphy bit - "Fuck you, gay sex is inherently funny!"
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