In one episode of Brooklyn Nine Nine, they talk about how trans people have it difficult in prison. In the very next episode the sentence “Nothing is more attractive in a woman than the clear absence of a penis” is uttered.
It’s almost like B99 is a show made by liberals for liberals and its progressiveness is entirely performative.
Just want to point out since the post kind of glosses over the fact that the last sentence is uttered ironically by a gay character who is trying to pass as straight to distract a guard at a women’s prison. The running joke is that he believes straight people are transphobic and homophobic, so when he tries to pretend to be one, he acts that way. The joke is, no one around him acts like what he’s saying is off, making further commentary on how transphobic and homophobic our society is.
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I really don’t think it was that deep. The joke was a fairly straightforward “Holt is bad at pretending to be straight and the only thing he can think of to talk about is breasts and sexual organs”. It wasn’t a commentary about transphobia; the writers just fell into the trap of associating all men with penises and all women with vaginas.
On the other hand, I also don’t think it’s fair to say that B99’s progressiveness is entirely performative. The show, like all shows, has some blind spots and can still be unintentionally offensive. There are also some fat jokes relating to Terry, for example.
hey so fun facts! this thing apparently cost upwards of 20,000£ to fly for something like two hours. imagine the things actual activists could do with 20,000£.
imagine, for example, the immigrant families we could reunite with 20k. imagine the disabled people we could support through the financial hardships forced on them by the uk government. imagine the thousands of productive things we could achieve with 20,000£, rather than spending it on meaningless boondoggles that do nothing except make liberals laugh and signal your uselessness to everyone with half a brain
