• Linda R@nord.pub
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      13 hours ago

      How does this image not convey an anti-trans message beside its main point?

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        How does it? If the target of a joke is bad, then any concept present in the joke is also seen as bad? Is this joke also anti-wigs?

        • Linda R@nord.pub
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          3 hours ago

          It makes it look like there’s something funny or wrong with a woman’s face looking male to a lesser or bigger extent.

          Ridiculing a cis person for looking a bit like the opposite sex causes people to ridicule trans people as well.

          I don’t like the joke because it makes my life more dangerous. It steers the society in a direction that increases my risk to be beaten up or murdered.

          And yes, here the joke is about unambiguity regarding what the gender of the person is. If there was a joke where the funny part is that someone is wearing a wig (here the wig is a tool for reaching the “funny” look, not the funny thing as for itself), then it would indeed endanger the well-being of every person wearing a wig. This joke here does nothing to ridicule the concept of wearing a wig. But it does ridicule the concept of a woman looking male. It’s saying “this person looks trans. How funny!”

          I look trans. Why is it funny to you that I look trans?

          • diablicja@lemmy.zip
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            I don’t think anyone’s implying that miller looks feminine or that Zacharia looks masculine. To me, it says that this administration is running out of blond options and miller might have to spew his own propaganda soon. And, for what it’s worth, I’m a cis woman with masculine features, so unfortunately I do have skin in this game.