Went back and read the NYT piece about Julia Sweeney. It really missed the mark in the parts where it described this as a case of comedy from a different era being re-examined. https://nyti.ms/2pCZWgr
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This wasn't in "the Midwest"- I grew up in the Boston area. What's changed is that androgynous people have a voice now, not that Pat wasn't a cruel, mocking character then.
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This is generally the case with these looks back at offensive humor- the people who were the butt of the jokes never found it funny in the first place. But the Times piece missed an opportunity to note that fact.
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Interviewing Jill Soloway was a part of the mistake. Jill Soloway came out as nonbinary in the last couple of years. Nothing wrong with that, but it adds to a perception that androgynous people having dignity is a "new" phenomenon, one no one could have known about in 1992.
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