There's a very fine line where you stop just letting jokes be jokes and you start allowing shitty things to be normalized. While I don't personally think Lindsay Ellis did anything worth getting cancelled over here, there is a good discussion to be had about knowing when to maybe hold back on a joke that might be more harmful than you intended.
people would rather make a kneejerk response and dismiss trans and non-binary people than ever have to question their already held opinions. ironically they claim we're the ones who overreact when they're the ones who get upset every time someone receives even the mildest criticism from trans and non-binary people.
Natalie doesn't run her own twitter anymore after she closed it after ranting about feeling threatened by non-binary people and non-"passing" binary trans people. This was also where she called herself "the last of the old-school transsexuals".
nobody is "cancelling" lindsay. saying a joke is bad doesn't mean suddenly we want her to never show her face again.
Maybe I'm giving Ms. Ellis too much credit, but I thought the failed attempt at the joke was the joke, with the capper being that she is Ricky Gervais.
Yes, he believes you're only trans if a doctor tells you you are. Thus anyone outside of that isn't actually trans.
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to dismiss her actions, that's why I'm saddened by this, she's usually on the ball about things but seeing her resort to transphobic jokes was just a massive wtf, who knows what else she jokes about behind closed doors if she freely thought she could get away with this pathetic outdated joke.
Yeah, that's actually one my favourite videos of hers. Was something I hadn't honestly given serious thought to before.
It's a transphobic joke.
Mistakes can only be corrected if they are made aware of them. To ignore or pretend a problem isn't there just allows for ignorance to show again.
Not really, no. How many of those that tried to do better have earned the acceptance? I saw someone on ERA just last week blast James Gunn for those shitty old tweets he said for years ago. In this age, there's no forgiveness, no time to consider. All is fury, anger. Hell, I used to be overjoyed the Alt-Right were tearing itself apart...Then I realized a portion of the "Left" were just as eager to do it as well.
Trying to do better?
Jokes like that hurt a community that has to deal with costant and never stop amount of hurtfull bullshit
I remember her doing that then coming back to handling it herself, thats what led to the whole her saying it was an honor to have Buck Angel be in her video controversy, haven't checked back since her non apology that she locked behind the paywall of patreon so don't know whether her manager is back in control or not
No, I am not trans. Got enough friends who are to care about it though. But I'm also an asshole who has made msitakes in his past and worked hard to redeem myself for them. So I'm kind of big on giving people a chance to explain themselves.
