Comfort shows without transphobic jokes?
Comfort shows without transphobic jokes?
I've been feeling down lately and I started re-watching futurama for some good nostalgia, but it keeps making transphobic jokes which is kind of just making me feel worse. Anyone have any suggestions for comfort shows to watch?
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Here lots to choose from
3rd Rock From the Sun (comedy)
Barry (Dark comedy)
The Venture Bros (comedy)
Drawn Together (cartoon parody of big brother)
Scrubs (comedy drama)
Allo Allo (70's WWII comedy)
Ted Lasso (drama comedy)
Travelers (thriller/action drama)
ST:TNG / DS9 / Voyager (90's Star Trek)
Battlestar Galactica (Epic Space drama)
Quantum Leap (89-93) (unique drama)
Mr Bean (comedy)
Dragonball Abridged (Parody that followsbthe DB story)
Fawlty Towers (70's English comedy)
MASH (70's Korea war hospital drama/comedy)
Avenue 5 (if current CEO's got to run a space cruise company)
Better off Ted (parody invention company)
Dexter + New blood (drama)
Drew Carry show (comedy)
Happy Tree friends (when I'm feeling sadistic)
It Crowd (comedy)
The Newsroom (drama)
Parks and Recreation (comedy)
Silicon Valley (parody of the real silicon valley)
Stargate (any of them)
I'll be the one to spoil IT Crowd, it has at least one poor portrayal of a trans woman. Avoid anything associated with Graham Linehan.
Agreed about IT Crowd. I watched it for the first time like 2 years ago and there was a whole episode that was awful.
Drawn Together
No, oh definitely not. It's funny but it has anti-everything jokes, including anti trans. They're an equal opportunity offender against all groups.
I mean that's the beauty, no limits! Easy Zander, EASY!
Scrubs unfortunately has a few transphobic and homophobic jokes. One episode is particularly bad. I rewatched it recently and it really stood out.
It Crowd (comedy)
except for that joke in s3e4 that led to graham going all terf central
Mash and Allo Allo both have no shortage of jokes about cross-dressing and plenty of casual sexism. Fawlty Towers ... is also a product of it's time, any good parts get outweighed by the bad parts.
The cross dressing in MASH was Klinger trying to get classified as a crazy (section 8?) And isn't making fun of trans people. Allo Alloonlyl never made fun of trans people, cross dressing in that show was not about making fun of trans people but making fun about how Germans are kinksters (I'm assuming herrflick in lingerie) every other 'cross dressing' was for disguises. Do you also take offence to this
Klinger wants to get classified as crazy by wearing dresses, which implies that wearing different clothes is a sign of mental illness. Herr Flick gets sexual gratification from wearing women's clothes, thus implying that wearing different clothes is something only a sexual deviant would do. Both of these stereotypes continue to be used to harm Trans women.
Klinger wants to get classified as crazy by wearing dresses, which implies that wearing different clothes is a sign of mental illness
Until very recently you'd be kicked out of the army for being gay or trans. Klinger was simply taking advantage of a broken system, we have no idea what his personal beliefs on crossdressing were.
That's the motivations of the character, he was in a dress in a comedy so that people could laugh at him.
To be clear, having seen M.A.S.H, this is correct. And you're right about the way that the narratives it plays into continue to be used to harm trans women.
That's why I take the opportunity to litter any chance I get. /s
Though seriously, if they want to trans ban me from WW3 with China, Russia, and North Korea I really don’t mind at all. Go send all the cis-hets to die in countries they can’t point to without a labeled map to spite me.
Wonka “No, Stop, Don’t” intensifies
Luckily they realized after Vietnam that draftees who don't want to be there don't really give it their all. You bring up an interesting point though, all men in the country have to register for selective service at 18, I wonder if that still applies to trans women who haven't updated their paperwork yet
Anyway, hypotheticals aside, I think it's good that gay or trans people who want to serve in the armed forces have that option now
Absolutely, there shouldn’t be anything to stop those individuals from serving on their own volition.
luckily they realized after Vietnam that… (conscripts) … who don’t want to be there don’t really give it their all.
It was 2006-2007 I was a really big 9/11 truther, any time people would talk about a draft I used to rebut “I don’t want to go there, and I want to die anyways, go ahead and give me a gun and force me to go, let’s see how many Americans I can kill with sabotage and a rampage.”
It blows my mind that we still have people who think a conscription effort would be anything but detrimental.
Speaking of, anyone else notice the semantic propaganda that is the word draft/ conscript? Our enemies are evil and they conscript their men to fight in pointless wars, but we on the other hand draft our young heroes to selflessly serve their country.
If that's how ya wanna take it, you do you. Ya notice how Klinger was a main character that everyone else regarded as being mentally fit? I think that speaks volumes more than a single negative Once again, Germans are kinksters, are ya kink shaming Herflick now?
They were both in their respective shows so that people could laugh at them, not with them.
Yeah, its called comedy.
You must be a joy to be around...
DS9
Unless you count the gender bending jokes surrounding Trill issues that have been made once or twice. Or the time Kira ruined a deal Quark was trying to make by editing his hologram program of her to have his head on a female body to disgust his buyer.
Actually curious what people think about those, along with Drew's brother on the Drew Carry show.
I also think there was gender swap in 3rd rock played for laughs, but I might be misremembering gender differences for an alien. I also don't recall the episodes so not sure if it was just poking fun at gender as a whole.
Similarly, I think scrubs has some references that may be unpleasant but on the whole they tend to be good or thoughtful when dealing with subjects that at the time weren't always represented well.
Unfortunately, a lot of older shows have unpleasant jokes. We just have to realize that jokes were a way to discuss the taboo and if we didn't have those jokes back then, we might not have the progress to today. That's not to say we want them now but we should judge the media on the knowledge and morals of the time.
There's also an episode where Quark undergoes gender reassignment in order to close a deal, which is played for laughs and includes lines about women being sensitive because of their hormones. It sticks out because it's just horrible, while she show is generally good.
Sorry I can't please everyone. Maybe ST: Discovery in more you speed?
If you have a problem with Drew's brother you have some issues of your own.
Guys literally brought up issues regarding trans people, like getting employment. Remember how Steve got the job in the perfume(?) section?
I'm sorry you assume I have any issues with them when I literally stated I was curious what others thought about them.
Sorry, was generalizing didn't mean you specifically
The Venture Bros does have a couple of borderline transphobic jokes about Dr. Mrs. The Monarch in one episode
Fuckin hell can we hang out? What's your discord or something?
I don't have discord server I use, just hop around a bunch of em like Mint Blitz, 3d Printing, LTT, EVE online And also trolling around Lemmy Don't use much else