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30 Rock is pretty problematic [CW: racism, transphobia] (lemmy.eco.br)

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I used to watch it sporadically when it aired and started watching it from the begging now, just finishing 3th season. I knew it had racial/racist jokes but I'm shocked with the amount of transphic jokes it has. I tried to see if there were some discussion around it, but I only found a video from T1J focused on the racial content but he didn't mention the transphobia even once.

Have she ever talk about that? Like acknowledging if was transphobic or something? Or is her writing still like that?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Pretty much every popular American media franchise, from films to television programmes to streaming and comic books, has firm roots in heteronormative oppression & the best you ever see for representation is surface-level. There's always backtracking to bigotry & appealing to the lowest common denominator. You can't expect any of this shit to be truly intersectional or free of discriminatory elements.

Examples of surface-level representatives:

"Here's a black woman on our film, you saw her right? We're not racist or misogynist." "Here's a gay man on our show, you saw him right? We're not homophobic." "Here's a trans man on our show, you saw him right? We're not transphobic." "Here's a nonbinary pansexual unicorn on our show. You saw them, right? We don't kink-shame."

It fucking never ends & it's all for you to buy their new shiny bullshit next time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Will and Grace trashed on poor people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Traded one for the other eh. I still haven't watched that show; I always preferred stuff from the UK, which has their own problems as a viewer like us

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ngl, I used to love Absolutely Fabulous, and The Young Ones.

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