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I've been feeling down lately and I started re-watching futurama for some good nostalgia, but it keeps making transphobic jokes which is kind of just making me feel worse. Anyone have any suggestions for comfort shows to watch?

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[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Klinger wants to get classified as crazy by wearing dresses, which implies that wearing different clothes is a sign of mental illness

Until very recently you'd be kicked out of the army for being gay or trans. Klinger was simply taking advantage of a broken system, we have no idea what his personal beliefs on crossdressing were.

[–] 7of9@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's the motivations of the character, he was in a dress in a comedy so that people could laugh at him.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

To be clear, having seen M.A.S.H, this is correct. And you're right about the way that the narratives it plays into continue to be used to harm trans women.

[–] NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's why I take the opportunity to litter any chance I get. /s

Though seriously, if they want to trans ban me from WW3 with China, Russia, and North Korea I really don’t mind at all. Go send all the cis-hets to die in countries they can’t point to without a labeled map to spite me.

Wonka “No, Stop, Don’t” intensifies

[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Luckily they realized after Vietnam that draftees who don't want to be there don't really give it their all. You bring up an interesting point though, all men in the country have to register for selective service at 18, I wonder if that still applies to trans women who haven't updated their paperwork yet

Anyway, hypotheticals aside, I think it's good that gay or trans people who want to serve in the armed forces have that option now

[–] NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

Absolutely, there shouldn’t be anything to stop those individuals from serving on their own volition.

luckily they realized after Vietnam that… (conscripts) … who don’t want to be there don’t really give it their all.

It was 2006-2007 I was a really big 9/11 truther, any time people would talk about a draft I used to rebut “I don’t want to go there, and I want to die anyways, go ahead and give me a gun and force me to go, let’s see how many Americans I can kill with sabotage and a rampage.”

It blows my mind that we still have people who think a conscription effort would be anything but detrimental.

Speaking of, anyone else notice the semantic propaganda that is the word draft/ conscript? Our enemies are evil and they conscript their men to fight in pointless wars, but we on the other hand draft our young heroes to selflessly serve their country.