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At this rate, Colbert might actually be held accountable in the near future for making transphobic jokes.

Go trigger warn some shit

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That’s not transphobic, though. He’s making a point that because the LGBT agenda is “barreling forward at full-speed” that the B and T of LGBT is being left behind. Everyone is focusing on the L and the G that there are people who have no idea what the B and T even stand for. He’s not being transphobic or making a slight meant to make fun of or harm the bi and trans* community. He’s making a point that no one is focusing on them because they’re focusing on the lesbian and gay community.

Mother. Fucking. This.

People really need to realize that EVERYTHING Colbert says while on camera is satire.

Satire: The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the cotext of a play, novel, fiilm or other works.

He is not making a transphobic joke. He is not honestly saying that bi and trans people do not count/matter/exist. He is making humor in order to shed light on the fact that they are forgotten.

He is doing this to raise fucking awareness that there is more to LGBT than LG. He is raising a big flag that says “Hey, don’t forget about these guys. They count. They matter. Why aren’t you doing anything about them? Why aren’t they discussed?” He is not trying to say “They don’t matter.”

So please stop with the self righteous, self pity, “social justice” comments unless you know what you are talking about.

I do appreciate that Bisexual is matched with bacon. I rather enjoy bacon. 

No. Colbert is transphobic. I don’t care if he labels it satire; when you’re dropping the t-slur as frequently as he is, making transphobic jokes as often as he is, you don’t get to pass it off as satire. Here’s the thing about satire: YOU AIM IT AT PEOPLE IN POSITIONS OF POWER. Making jokes at the expense of people who get shit on? That’s not funny. Documentation can be found over here: http://yourmomentofhate.tumblr.com/

I’m so sick of people saying “oh no don’t worry it’s just satire” when you KNOW that if he was calling gay cis men by their slur, y’all would be up in arms.

So… ANYONE who plays a character who’s a stand-in for ignorant people is automatically those things that they’re satirizing?

From your definition, I suppose we can assume that actor Michael Parks is homophobic just because he portrayed a homophobic pastor in Kevin Smith’s “Red State” - a character who, need I remind everyone, was a PARODY of Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church.

SImilarly, Colbert’s character is a PARODY of far-right cable news hosts like Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly. It’s not that hard of a concept to grasp.

I grasp the concept. I’m involved in theater, and I spend a lot of time portraying and writing characters that are complicit in various kinds of -isms. I understand that portraying prejudiced people can be used to uplift people who are oppressed and to critique people who wield privilege in unhealthy ways. 

What Colbert does, he doesn’t do because he wants to help the trans community—he does it because he knows he can get a cheap laugh by referring to Adam’s apples and big hands. This particular photoset makes a good point about how the L and G parts of the acronym marginalize the B and T parts of the acronym. But it doesn’t erase all of the horrible jokes he has made and continues to make at our expense.

You can have a cissexist character and have the intention of the writer/work/joke not be cissexist. To use a well-known example, there are TONS AND TONS of cissexist characters in Boys Don’t Cry,  but the point of the work is to be trans-affirming. Colbert and his writers, when they reference trans* people, are almost always being cissexist (see the link I included in the previous post), and aren’t being affirming.

musicsoundslovelythanks:

crashwasplayingbadeverything:

swaggaraptor:

diarrheaworldstarhiphop:

chiefkeeffanfiction:

amydentata:

At this rate, Colbert might actually be held accountable in the near future for making transphobic jokes.

Go trigger warn some shit

Lol
Turtle
Maximum
Velocity

That’s not transphobic, though. He’s making a point that because the LGBT agenda is “barreling forward at full-speed” that the B and T of LGBT is being left behind. Everyone is focusing on the L and the G that there are people who have no idea what the B and T even stand for. He’s not being transphobic or making a slight meant to make fun of or harm the bi and trans* community. He’s making a point that no one is focusing on them because they’re focusing on the lesbian and gay community.

Mother. Fucking. This.

People really need to realize that EVERYTHING Colbert says while on camera is satire.

Satire: The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the cotext of a play, novel, fiilm or other works.

He is not making a transphobic joke. He is not honestly saying that bi and trans people do not count/matter/exist. He is making humor in order to shed light on the fact that they are forgotten.

He is doing this to raise fucking awareness that there is more to LGBT than LG. He is raising a big flag that says “Hey, don’t forget about these guys. They count. They matter. Why aren’t you doing anything about them? Why aren’t they discussed?” He is not trying to say “They don’t matter.”

So please stop with the self righteous, self pity, “social justice” comments unless you know what you are talking about.

I do appreciate that Bisexual is matched with bacon. I rather enjoy bacon. 

No. Colbert is transphobic. I don’t care if he labels it satire; when you’re dropping the t-slur as frequently as he is, making transphobic jokes as often as he is, you don’t get to pass it off as satire. Here’s the thing about satire: YOU AIM IT AT PEOPLE IN POSITIONS OF POWER. Making jokes at the expense of people who get shit on? That’s not funny. Documentation can be found over here: http://yourmomentofhate.tumblr.com/

I’m so sick of people saying “oh no don’t worry it’s just satire” when you KNOW that if he was calling gay cis men by their slur, y’all would be up in arms.