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also a million other characters, but i saw someone arguing silence of the lambs wasn't transphobic the other day so that's on my mind

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[-] PapaEmeritusIII@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago

Yeah I wish Silence of the Lambs had a different antagonist. From what I’ve heard, the writers didn’t intend for the movie to be transphobic because “”Buffalo Bill isn’t actually a trans woman”” or w/e, but they fucked up anyway. Clearly they did not consult any trans women during the process, or if they did then they totally ignored what they said.

Love Hannibal Lecter though. As far as I’m concerned, that movie is about him and him alone. Were there any other serial killers in the movie? I don’t remember them. ~~further comments redacted for being too thirsty~~

[-] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago

the writers didn’t intend for the movie to be transphobic because “”Buffalo Bill isn’t actually a trans woman””

I don't get why people even on this site have such a hard time understanding that this makes the movie a hundred times more transphobic. The portrayal of the killer is bad enough as it is, i have serious trauma from this shit, but piling all this transmedicalism on top of it, having Hannibal misgender the killer and claim that "he" actually just has some weird fetish instead of being a TRVE TRANSSEXVAL is at the very core of what makes this garbage the transphobe's version of Birth of a Nation. What's so hard to understand about that? Why does Hexbear have such a hard time recognizing and calling out transmedicalism?

[-] PapaEmeritusIII@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

Just in case my comment didn’t make it clear enough, I agree with you

[-] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

SOTL is one of my favorite movies of all time, even with the questionable transphobic bits. The tension between Foster and Hopkins made that movie something really fucking special

[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

Hopkins was amazing

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

Author Thomas Harris has come out and tried to do damage control about it, but none of his bs holds water.

I watch Red Dragon for my Hannibal fix ngl.

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