Sure we can make movies about a woman falling in love with a tilt-a-whirl and everyone is all gushing over it but you try to fuck one robot pirate at Disneyland and you get banned for life.

Natalie is brilliant. Love her videos. 

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Please tell me when that was - or was that when only one identity really 'mattered'?

Some of you need to realize that sometimes you can just shut up and respect someone’s opinion, especially if they are much closer to the experience. I might have quibbles with this and I might love Silence to death, but maybe respect a trans person’s views on trans issues and just shut up.

Ironically, Silence of the Lambs gets into trouble because it’s so well-made that the absurd trashiness gets overlooked. It’s about a cannibal helping the FBI profile a serial killer who kills women to make a woman-suit. Every part of that premise is too ridiculous to have any grounding in reality - as he appears in…

From what I’ve seen of queer writing about Silence from the 90's, the movie was considered pretty backwards then, too. It’s more like the rest of the world is finally starting to catch up to what trans people have been saying for 30 years.

30 years! That was back before there were people!

Yes, Bad or Troubled Blood I think it’s called? Something pretty generic. Full disclosure, I haven’t read it and have no plans to (Hell, I somehow never even read any Harry Potter—though in that case it was more because they became a thing just when I was at an inbetween teenage stage where I wouldn’t be caught dead…

“I really loathe the trend of attempting to read modern political morality into older movies.”

I think that’s bit rough. It’s an opinion piece by someone who’s life was directly and negatively affected by this film.

Fantastic write up.  Looking at the film now... yeah its hard to miss the very clear transphobia.  Its not great.  One thing to point out, Gumb is indeed based on a couple real serial killers.  Mostly Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, and Ed Kemper.  One important fact.  None of them were trans.  Ed Gein had a lot of sexual…

I have yet to find a television show that invested me so deeply into a group of characters that I, nearly always, utterly detested.

Hey, you forgot about snide assholes in the comments section.

Meanwhile, Judith Butler was asked the same question by the New Statesman and positively ethered the interviewer:

More than Space Princess? More than Hover Dog?!

Just to remind everyone, Alan Moore portrayed Harry Potter as the Anti-Christ in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

How is *checks notes* not being transphobic “trying to please everyone”? Probably has something to do with you seeming to to be in favor of a bigot being nominated to be a Justice on the Supreme Court...

I’m pretty sure that Loy’s son who gets swapped over to the Faddas is Mike Milligan from Season 3. Maybe his being taken in by “Rabbi” Milligan (from Dublin, Italy lol) turns into a father-son relationship and he takes his last name? Dunno.

Huh, that bit about parenting is odd. I mean, if nothing else The Odyssey would like a word with you.