On a scale of one to ten how much of a reaction are you looking for sharing that clip?
And there you go, South Park in a nutshell. It's generally pretty a clever show, but hardly nuanced, somewhat glossing over the whole thing with populist humour because, well, it's a cartoon dudes, it's literally what they're for and they're good at making fun of
everything with mild if obvious political irony.
Mommy wrote:Im sure Green Gecko said he was close to banning me for the comments Id made on here. Very disappointing.
I think the point here really is that I didn't do that, which is a sign of respect. It was brought to my attention that in a myriad of other online spaces it would be viewed pretty dimly.
I wasn't really taking umbrage with specifically classifying illness, more the frivolity in that specific sentence, which came across as insensitive and potentially really upsetting to trans people which, like, actually exist besides a simple "illness" and I try to do more on a small website like this compared to social media giants to safeguard. It read really cursory and slightly irritable as if you couldn't be bothered to consider if transexual people were anything more than deficient in some way. There is a lot more to divergent individuals of all kinds than a simple disease, even if that were true.
More than happy to look past it; as again, I did, but without making no comment, something I don't have to do (either way). It's pretty ironic that I get more people upset by effectively
not banning them than anything else. You wouldn't believe how much flak I get for a simple warning, in many cases. That's what happens when you give people enough credit to talk out their opinions rather than using unilateral action; and it would be so much easier to do that and much more of a mere administrative exercise. It's based on the same principles of humanity that I choose to discuss conflicting opinions because I think the results are better than just turfing people out because you don't agree with what they think or how they said it.
I don't want to drag this out, but this isn't something you'd say openly to a person who has likely suffered a lot, right? The kind of people who get beaten within an inch of their life, tolerate horrible emotional abuse by their own friends and families, and are in some countries condemned to death (or until quite recently in this country, medically institutionalised or put through essentially brainwashing) or even hunted for sport. 100% that tone and nothing else is the key reason why I (and others) responded how I did.
"Oh but Im a woman now" - Bullshit. Youre a man who has had his pecker removed and has a mental health issue.
Obviously that kind of person needs to be treated with sensitivity - even if only a proportion of them suffer from the most horrible consequences of being themselves which, honestly, I couldn't give less of a gooseberry fool about provided they do just that and are allowed to do just that without harming anyone.