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It’s weird, in the UK there was a very popular trans character 30 years ago in one of the biggest soaps. I don’t remember there being any intense outcry about it, she was in the show for 15 years. The casting was lacking sensitivity (cis woman cast in the role) but I think it’s generally felt the role was sensitively portrayed (any trans folks step in to tell me I’m wrong here).
I see people now getting all worked up about trans people now who liked/ supported the character years ago (it’s hard to convey how much these soaps impacted UK life 30 odd years ago, we’re talking front page news campaigning to free a jailed character/the Prime Minister making comment on it kinda thing). I’m not commenting that things are better or worse for trans people now, just that this one thing always strikes me as odd.
Also lots of things were common in Germany 80-90 years ago, I’m not sure that justification works at all.
I remember Nadia winning Big Brother and we all coped just fine. I even remember people saying she was the sensible choice because the more ott characters were voted off too early that year.
Honestly I think it’s just people being told what to think and employing zero critical thinking. Dumbass arguments that on the surface seems reasonable initially convince them and then if they’re challenged they push back - which frankly is human nature, nobody wants to be wrong. Right wing grifters have broken people’s brains and there’s no easy route back.
Take the migrants in hotels thing in the UK. “They’re putting immigrants up in hotels” on the surface of it I can totally see why that annoys people who are struggling. “Why should they stay in a hotel and I’m getting things tight” is a valid enough question for someone hard up and skipping meals to feed the kids to ask. The agitators use that as a base. The reality is there’s a ton of asylum seekers needing housed because the previous government stopped processing them to make it look like the immigration numbers had gone down, turns out putting them in hotels is the cheapest option to clear the backlog.
It’s weird, in the UK there was a very popular trans character 30 years ago in one of the biggest soaps. I don’t remember there being any intense outcry about it, she was in the show for 15 years. The casting was lacking sensitivity (cis woman cast in the role) but I think it’s generally felt the role was sensitively portrayed (any trans folks step in to tell me I’m wrong here).
I see people now getting all worked up about trans people now who liked/ supported the character years ago (it’s hard to convey how much these soaps impacted UK life 30 odd years ago, we’re talking front page news campaigning to free a jailed character/the Prime Minister making comment on it kinda thing). I’m not commenting that things are better or worse for trans people now, just that this one thing always strikes me as odd.
Also lots of things were common in Germany 80-90 years ago, I’m not sure that justification works at all.
Better to cast a cis woman than a cis man
I remember Nadia winning Big Brother and we all coped just fine. I even remember people saying she was the sensible choice because the more ott characters were voted off too early that year.
yeah, it’s weird how picky people are
Honestly I think it’s just people being told what to think and employing zero critical thinking. Dumbass arguments that on the surface seems reasonable initially convince them and then if they’re challenged they push back - which frankly is human nature, nobody wants to be wrong. Right wing grifters have broken people’s brains and there’s no easy route back.
Take the migrants in hotels thing in the UK. “They’re putting immigrants up in hotels” on the surface of it I can totally see why that annoys people who are struggling. “Why should they stay in a hotel and I’m getting things tight” is a valid enough question for someone hard up and skipping meals to feed the kids to ask. The agitators use that as a base. The reality is there’s a ton of asylum seekers needing housed because the previous government stopped processing them to make it look like the immigration numbers had gone down, turns out putting them in hotels is the cheapest option to clear the backlog.
I could rant for hours. It pisses me off no end.
Arguably one of the worst of things the right has done was convince the people that workers rights, trans rights, etc. are bad.