I don’t know if this is the right place to ask this, I apologize if it isn’t.

Lately (as in a few years), I have been noticing a higher amount of “jokes” directed at trans (girls specially) in the line of “yes, a girl, but with an extra queue the laughs” and I don’t really know if I’m personally just too sensitive and tired of these things or if is a more generalized sentiment.

I mean, those are things you could say to your trans friend when you’re pretty close and both parts are on the same understanding that it’s a joke, but just watching some video that has nothing to do with the theme and randomly getting the insert slur here (in Spanish there are many to choose from) is surprisingly tiresome.

Of course the moment you say “that’s like a slur tbh” the “counter argument” is “it’s a joke” and then I don’t know what to say. Am I just too tired of the same “joke” or should I call it out? How do you see this “joke”, “trend”, whatever?

  • GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    25 days ago

    someone could make a joke about how common it is for us to work in software, and that could be funny and ok because it’s the truth

    I immediately thought of this meme. Not directed at trans folks but the same predisposition for software and IT jobs applies.

    • LilyVess@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      24 days ago

      I love that joke since the Venn Diagram between Furry->Software Dev/IT<-Trans is pretty interesting, but that is a fun observation, we all laugh.

      When the “joke” is repeating, for example, “Oh no Furry, what are you doing with my dog!?!” it stop being a joke and it becomes just target harassment, I think.