Let me just stop dancing around the topic and be blunt: if you arenβt comfortable repeating a constructed joke about a marginalized person to exactly that type of person, then your jokeβs probably not funny. If you canβt look a trans person in the eye while telling us about why we should give βthat one Family Guy episode a try,β it should really be a clue as to whatβs going on. Transphobia, racism, and a vast plethora of other bigoted views mire every cheap Hollywood comedy pumped out by the dozens every year. Whenever weβre so unlucky as to see one of these in their entirety, we basically keep a tally in our head as we trudge forward. βThat one was an insult about her genitalia, but at least they didnβt deadname her.β βWell, that was at least a horribly degrading joke about a trans man. I donβt see that often, so that has to be worth something, right? Rightβ¦β
Youβre a Comedian: Trans Characters and Jokes in βComicβ Books (via womenwriteaboutcomics)
