It’s weird seeing Ricky Gervais making money out of shit material that is almost word for word, just an average mumsnet thread. it’s fucking insane to me how we take some of the most vulnerable, marginalised people in society… and tear them apart to hundreds of millions on netflix like that’s okay
Ricky gervais being utterly predictable and mocking transgender people in his latest special. She feels worthless enough as it is without being the butt of the joke. Doesn’t want to be the centre of attention. Trans ppl get it every single day in the UK press. Ricky Gervais just called trans women rapists & told us to cut off our genitals for his personal comfort on yet another hate-filled Netflix “comedy” specialįuck you SO glad I cancelled my subscription to your hate service months ago Meanwhile, people with a real handle on trans issues and the violence they face had plenty to say: It’s a way of satirizing attitudes.”Ī quick scroll through Twitter shows you that, in fact, his audience does not know what the wrong thing is. And you as an audience laugh at the wrong thing, because you know what the wrong thing is. “That’s when I say something I don’t really mean, for comic effect. Rhetoric like Gervais’ that reduces trans women to sexually violent caricatures based solely around their genitals contributes to the culture that leads to these violent killings, but on a recent interview on The One Show with Alex Jones, Gervais asserted that his dangerous rhetoric was all just comedy. Last year was the most lethal year on record for trans people, with the HRC reporting some 57 violent killings of trans and gender non-conforming people.
Ricky Gervais is on the defensive after mocking trans women in his edge-lord stand-up special SuperNature, referring to them as “the new women” and “the ones with beards and c*cks.” He went on to joke about a hypothetical trans woman raping cis women.