Let me just stop dancing around the topic and be blunt: if you aren’t comfortable repeating a constructed joke about a marginalized person to exactly that type of person, then your joke’s probably not funny. If you can’t look a trans person in the eye while telling us about why we should give “that one Family Guy episode a try,” it should really be a clue as to what’s 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 we’re so unlucky as to see one of these in their entirety, we basically keep a tally in our head as we trudge forward. “That one was an insult about her genitalia, but at least they didn’t deadname her.” “Well, that was at least a horribly degrading joke about a trans man. I don’t see that often, so that has to be worth something, right? Right…”
You’re a Comedian: Trans Characters and Jokes in “Comic” Books (via womenwriteaboutcomics)
