nearly-headless-horseman:thefingerfuckingfemalefury:princess-chrysalis29:The transphobia in our humo
nearly-headless-horseman:thefingerfuckingfemalefury:princess-chrysalis29:The transphobia in our humor is a systematically harmful device that shapes how people think of trans people, and the transphobia itself hurts like hell.Trans women especially are exploited as being deceivers and men and digusting. Evenn seeemingly small things are harmful, take this example from the show “Friends” in which Ross Gives Rachel a ridiculous and heavy horrible makeup job:Ross: (About Rachel’s makeup) Okay, there you go.Rachel: (Looks in the mirror) Sure. Sure, I’ll just sit next to the transsexual from purchasing.This is actually a big problem, trans women are thought to be transvestites, they’re painted to be ugly clowns in drag, the image of trans women is this:And this always elicits a laugh, it’s laughable when a male character does something feminine, and seeing this is what makes people honestly think this is what trans women are.Another Quip is the Always popular “Slept with a boy” Joke:In the Bridget Jones Movie there’s a point where A character is talking about being “deceived” by a transgender sex worker where he says:Daniel Cleaver: “I spent the night with a gorgeous Thai girl who turned out to be a gorgeous Thai boy!”Which says trans women are actually Men, and that they are sexually predatorial deceivers, another example being “The Hangover Part II”In this scene Stu is hungover and talking about the “Hot chick” he slept with, but then she is revealed to be transgenderAnd He honestly falls backwards in fear and disgust while the other characters look at her penis in horror. The people watching then laugh because the joke is that he slept with a trans woman whch is evidently hilarious.This is especially ridiculous because look at this woman:The fact that she is trans is so disgusting to them that they don’t see anything else about her.Other jokes are based purely around the fact that a person is trans. I don’t truly understand what’s so funny about that but they think so, for example:(honestly this^ wouldn’t be funny even if it weren’t offensive)“Bruce Jenner will be here doing some musical performances—he’s doing a his and her duet all by himself…I’m just busting your balls, while I still can.”Get it? She’s trans. that’s the joke. It’s fucking hilarious.These kinds of Agressively demeaning and misgendering jokes are disgusting and sytematically oppressive. It’s not just a joke.Jokes aren’t funny when our lives are in danger about these things. Trans people get killed because when someone finds out they are transgender they are so ashamed by their attraction to them, and you know where that comes from? Jokes. Very unfunny Jokes, and the people who laugh at them.-Trans Feminist PrincessIt honestly makes me feel so unhappy when I constantly see transphobic humour in the stuff out there that claims to be ‘comedy’…it’s not just in disgusting trash like Family Guy, even shows that are normally pretty good and enjoyable will often have at least one line or even sometimes a whole episode which has transphobic BS passed off as ‘comedy’ It’s depressing that there is so little out there that doesn’t use people like me as the punchline of a ‘joke’ Call people out on it every single time. Make them think before they speak. -- source link
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