Been seeing takes about the John Mulaney situation where ppl are like “I’m going to keep supporting him bc I still think he’s funny”, “tbh it’s not like John made the trans jokes why is everyone upset??”
People are upset because at minimum, trans individuals didn’t fucking pay get blindsided by tired jokes about their identity? What’s so hard to understand about that??? We can talk about all the issues with John Mulaney’s jokes another time but I think we can all agree, a huge portion of his audience is queer and to see him be buddy buddy with an open transphobe to the point of him literally surprise opening his show: Was wack as fuck.
If you wanna support John after all this and literally don’t care: Just fucking say that. Don’t sit there and try to justify him making his trans audience feel belittled on a night I’m sure they thought would be great fun and ended up being traumatic.