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Para said pretty much everything I was gonna say, but better, so cheers!

banananor posted...

yeah, tbqh i was on edge for that entire segment- it had the same energy as a "my one black friend" story. and comedians lie all of the time (not like a dead person is going to disagree...)

Yeah! Like. If it was JUST that line, this is kinda in "roll your eyes and move on" territory. That was actually my kneejerk reaction- I saw a bunch of people saying "Did you actually watch it? Did you watch to the end?" so I held off on saying much anywhere until after I had read the ending. The line that initially stuck out to me was the one about being done making jokes about us until we could laugh together about him. You show me JUST the Daphne part, and I see a guy who has some kinda dumb ideas and poor taste but his heart's in the right place. The "because I'm a transphobe" joke seems pretty clearly a joke, maybe not the classiest one ever but meh. Some people were mad that he spent so much time on how bad she bombed, but I'm willing to count that as serving the greater story of her resilience.

But, you put it into context of the part where he goes on about being a terf, and hits a ton of the standard issue transphobe talking points, (and, as I understand it, most of his career to date and especially his comeback) and that last line about Daphne feels less like a clumsy tribute (or like he did indeed find the rare trans woman who would be cool with being spoken of like that) and more like a parting shot right before he started talking about burying the hatchet. The TERF part is the part I'm *actually* upset about, mostly, but I keep seeing people (here and elsewhere) bringing up the Daphne part as some kinda redemption arc that makes everything else better, and I think that's a stretch when he couldn't even use her dang pronouns at the end.

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