“Try for like a second and a half to put yourself in someone else’s shoes maybe before you spout all kinds of nonsense and you will seem significantly less ignorant”

This is bullshit. No ones job to empathize with homophobia.

That is sweet for them. Congrats

internalized homophobia is still homophobia, don’t be surprised if people are hurt by witnessing it even if they know the context of why. There’s no need to defend it.

Recommend whatever you want to and just be honest with yourself and others about the content inside so that way can watch it when ready.

I love Tokyo Godfathers. It’s a very trans positive movie. It’s also a very transphobic movie. I recommend it as a christmas movie to tons of people. It is really good.

One is like a high school bully who doesn’t understand what’s going on but just knows that you are trans (AV)

The other is like the teacher who’s smart enough to use all the right words to bother you specifically without alarming the rest of the class (SoTL)

SoTL is a pretty queer film, so it understands trans people enough to be rightfully considered progressive for it’s time. But it uses that to create the same rhetoric some people use to bully and shame trans people with other factors of oppression (Disability, Gender non-conformity). The movie implies some people “think” they are trans, but actually aren’t, and it’s up to a “trained professional” to figure out who is “really trans” and who is really an villain in disguise.

It works because most cis people can’t be trusted to not misgender a trans person they see as evil, especially if someone gives them a false air of legitimacy about it (in this case, the opinion of the characters who aren’t Bill)

I’m glad they are taking responsibility for it lol. The movie was transmedicalist. It feels like every other character but Bill is tasked with determining how real Bill’s gender is. It’s so blatantly bigoted.