Cue all of the enlightened cis women here cissplaining to me how it’s just satire and nobody can take a joke anymore as they lose their fucking shit over the mildest rape joke in some other dumb bro comedy.

Funny how modesty applies only to physical appearance and never to being the center of attention about something rather pedestrian.

I expect people to make mistakes too. Making mistakes is perfectly okay. The key is to point out the mistakes so they improve.

Why are you telling me you’re gay? Do you want a cake or something?

I think that this is a critical point that often gets overlooked. There is such a bad thing as bad satire. Regardless of what their intent may have been, it was very clunky and awkward.

This. Things change because people complain about the status quo. Whining and complaining about stuff is basically the entire basis of civil rights and how things improve.

No, this is a terrible cop out. Sci-fi has always been fertile ground for exploring and tackling difficult social issues through metaphor. It’s the lifeblood of Star Trek, ffs.

They got a drag queen to play a trans woman. That says it all right there.

I find the dialogue less offensive than the notion of casting a drag queen as a trans woman (“hits like a man” is mainly offensive for how clunky and forced it is). When shows like CSI have dead trans sex workers represented by cis women wearing strapons, at least they’re being played by actual women. Even when shows…

The reason they’re reporting on this crime is right in the headline: she’s the first trans woman to be murdered this year (that we know of). And then to add insult to injury, the statement issued by the police uses male pronouns and her birth name, which is something happens depressingly often. These two things…

That would get around the problem, but I’m not sure if it would work well thematically.

As a trans woman, I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact she actually agreed to do it, because playing a ‘sweet transvestite’ is pretty much at the top of my NOPE list, no matter how big an impact something had on my life.

I did eventually ;)

Did the trans version of that, tried to “man up” after figuring it out. What a waste of time.

I wanted them to stay and explore this moment—explore the cost of womanhood and the way that simply dressing in female clothing (at this point in the film, Lili still predominantly presents as male) takes away a person’s basic right to accept and decline.

I wouldn’t worry about that too much... for some of us it’s all we’re really aiming for, really.

Yeah that’s technically true. But every major production (and probably most other productions as well) has had a male human in the role sooooooo... I don’t really know. Outside the context of the show, part of what makes it subversive is having a man in feminine attire. You can certainly have a woman in masculine…

But part of what makes the role work is having someone who is male-bodied in feminine attire. That’s what it makes it subversive. Having someone female-bodied in masculine attire for the role is something you can certainly do, but it’s not going to have nearly the same punch to it. In terms of subverting gender roles,…

I find baffling more than anything else.

I don’t have anything against RHPS personally. It’s just that for me (and most other trans women I’ve known, in all likelihood), the idea of playing a man playing a transvestite is... just not very appealing. For MANY, many reasons.