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
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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,
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Replying to @SecretGamerGrrl @arthur_affect
if you're trans, EVERYONE in comedy, possibly everyone in the media in general, is going to take at least one massive dump on
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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
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a big long (and in retrospect terrible) thing on this back when The Nightly Show first started because that was the best I've
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Replying to @SecretGamerGrrl @arthur_affect
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
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Replying to @SecretGamerGrrl @arthur_affect
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.
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yeah, most of this shit comes out of lazy acculturation to what's "inherently funny" (shocking/transgressive)
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unfortunately ppl really attached to their self-image as smart funny liberals let it become personal animus when challenged
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that was the repeated confused response from comics re: Caitlyn Jenner jokes - "But it's inherently funny!"
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and, I mean, that's the actual content of the Eddie Murphy bit - "Fuck you, gay sex is inherently funny!"
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and it got the uncomfortable laughter bc for his audience that was still ingrained and still true
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I've thought a lot abt that bit bc it is such a good example of someone standing at a cultural tipping point
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