Now kiss!

Get him and Mamdani to tag team him

When Ao3 comes back online, we could make that happen...

The script goes out of its way to say Bill isn't trans, because the filmmakers (and I think even the original novel) realize they could be contributing to something bad. And in that sense, I give them props.

But everything about the cinematic language around Buffalo Bill leans into the "transsexual serial killer" trope.

The fact that he's crudely trying to become a woman by literally wearing their skin is... Pretty transphobic when you think about it for more than 5 seconds.

You're right, insomuch as the movie goes to great lengths to exposit about how the filmmakers don't want to do a transphobia.

But what sticks in the head of your average viewer? A dull exposition scene where Clarice says "transsexuals are very passive"? Or the scene where Buffalo Bill is lisping around to goodbye horses, about to kill and skin a woman?

There's a dissonance in the script and the cinematography

Your instance name fucking rules! I love it

Or don't and you can just go away because I'm tired of you

Arguing with bad faith transphobes isn't exactly very pleasant either. Get off of Lemmy.

ok, so like the other person i responded to, you also believe we should scrap womens leagues? let them play against men?

Women's sports leagues exist to serve a social function, not a biological one. Plenty of women can kick a man's ass. Asserting that women are just weak, frail, and need protection from big strong men, sucks and is wrong.

You seem like a gem btw.

We're strangers on the internet. You don't know me, and I don't know you. But i have to hear transphobic garbage on a regular basis, and I have no interest in being cordial when confronted with transphobia.

Kys

Nobody wants you here

Should we ban tall people from playing basketball?