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This was a response to a trans girl who was talking about how trans characters are/were treated in horror films like psycho. She stated it hadn't been talked about very much and she's correct. A lot of thar conversation only just now started up and most prior conversation around was...not great.
I'm sorry, and I say this not to undermine the transphobia of the specific conversation here, but especially if we're talking about psycho, this really truly has been talked about extensively. Like, if you took a queer studies course in the 00s or early 10s, this was one of the three or four default undergrad media criticism papers to write. I simply cannot agree that "A lot of that conversation only just now started up." Serrano mentions this in Whipping Girl (2007), as if the academic reader is already aware of the conversation. John Phillips's Transgender on Screen (2002) is a kind of mediocre book but it's more than 20 years old and has extensive discussions of homo and transphobia in Psycho and Silence of the Lambs, and more. And this is just two particularly famous fairly mainstream-oriented books! There's extensive scholarship to be found on the subject if you look for it. But like, the book that coined "transmisogny" talks about psycho. You cannot claim that this is untread ground.
not what's being said and you're absolutely undermining the conversation about transphobia by taking it that way.
just for a reference point, the majority of the queer community still holds RHPS as a fucking cornerstone. transfeminist theory is a small minority of the conversation that gets ignored by the queer community at large. on account of the transmisogyny. which you're not helping with, with your "um actually" shtick.
even I, myself, had only heard of whipping girl recently, and transgender on screen is entirely new to me! and I'm FAR more exposed to transfeminist theory than the majority of queer people, hell even the majority of transfems.
and even then, two books? TWO BOOKS??? that's all you could fuckin come up with to say it's been "talked about extensively"?
cut your dismissive tone and stop defending a shitty twitter put-down of a trans girl.
you're being a transmisogynist. I know for a fact you wouldnt say this shit to any other person of any other oppressed demographic making a similar observation. cut. it. the. fuck. OUT.
