• macniel@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    More telling is the creator (Graham Linehan) who is a vocal TERF.

    well sad to see/hear. But I’m still not convinced that the episode in its entirety is transphobic.

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      1 year ago

      It’s the b-plot from what I recall, it’s not the main focus of the episode.

      It was written long before his TERF days and so it’s not exactly hateful, just ignorant and it’s comparable to a lot of other ways comedy treated trans characters from the era - The League Of Gentleman was much, much worse than the IT Crowd imo, and that was a recurring character in every episode.

      It’s rather the issue that while Matt Berry has distanced himself from the episode Linehan actually still defends it as pro-trans.

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      1 year ago

      Probably not, but Graham Linehan is by now just one of the most rabid transphobes you can imagine. He threw away everything he had to be a bigger TER“F”