- Joined
- Jan 4, 2020
TLC is about pushing boundaries and causing drama. Why set him up with a Kim Petras look alike when you could create conflict? Why not get the most gaudy attention whores out there - they'll add some material to the show with their personality! The family is bland, throw in a larger than life personality that we can get away with, and make sure they're black! We have too many white people here, corporate and viewers demand less mayo! So they are being transphobic, but not out of a politically motivated desire.But they aren't passive observers. I was talking about their deliberate decisions to portray troons in a negative light.
Why aren't Jazz and Sander meeting "normal" troons from their age group? Why is Sander "dating" a walking slutty drag queen stereotype twice his age? Most straight guys don't seek 40 year old women when they're in their early 20s. Let alone 40 year old troons. All of this was deliberately scripted and organised by TLC.
Imagine if JKR wrote something like that in any of her books? Troons would screech bloody murder. They still can't shut up about Cho Chang. But TLC gets a pass somehow.
TLC should be called out for it, but they play their cards smart to their viewer base. Wokeians go "oooh black trans womyn" and sideshow watching moms go "oh my stars do you see that black tranny get close to him are they going to do the nasty? why I never-" ...usually at home, irl, or on smaller facebook groups so they don't get crucified by terminally online. Theoretically you could call them transphobes, but I see them as hypercynical antihumanists general instead of politically motivated. They don't see trans women as women or human but they don't see other humans as humans either
They'd shit on anyone for views and make the plebs pay money to watch. They're pushing transphobic boundaries for ratings, they know how to play the game.
Now, if the end result is the same as if it was made by stealth transphobes, does it matter that I think it's not motivated by showing troons in a negative light? Nope. They screwed the pooch anyway and are tanking people's views on trans people in general along with it. The damage has been done, me going full semantics nazi on this makes no difference to the end result (you're basically right).