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Abyssian@lemmy.world 3 hours agoYou put “looks trans” in quotes but literally said you don’t think the after pictures here look trans. So clearly you do think that “looking trans” is a thing.
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Abyssian@lemmy.world 3 hours agoYou put “looks trans” in quotes but literally said you don’t think the after pictures here look trans. So clearly you do think that “looking trans” is a thing.
hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Well I don’t think they “look trans” because honestly I don’t really know what that would look like
Abyssian@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
So a meme mocking a guy’s looks by saying that he “looks trans” is… insulting to trans people because it’s saying there is such a thing as “looking trans”… and also more insulting to them because it’s before and after images in which the person looks goofier after, so it is considering “looking trans” to be synonymous with looking goofy.
Make sense now?
hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
As explained earlier, the OG meme already acknowledged that it could be problematic. As jokes often are. Whether or not something could be a problem, and whether or not it actually becomes a problem, are two separate things.
So yes, it could be a problem. But it also could be insignificant. It’s up to the audience to judge.
Abyssian@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
lemmy.world/post/50729865
Tell me where you see this acknowledgement. All I see is mocking a man for “looking trans.”
Leaving it up for the audience to judge is how blatantly racist and discriminatory jokes get told all the time in certain places and people think that’s an acceptable world view to have.