I don’t know if this is the right place to ask this, I apologize if it isn’t.

Lately (as in a few years), I have been noticing a higher amount of “jokes” directed at trans (girls specially) in the line of “yes, a girl, but with an extra queue the laughs” and I don’t really know if I’m personally just too sensitive and tired of these things or if is a more generalized sentiment.

I mean, those are things you could say to your trans friend when you’re pretty close and both parts are on the same understanding that it’s a joke, but just watching some video that has nothing to do with the theme and randomly getting the insert slur here (in Spanish there are many to choose from) is surprisingly tiresome.

Of course the moment you say “that’s like a slur tbh” the “counter argument” is “it’s a joke” and then I don’t know what to say. Am I just too tired of the same “joke” or should I call it out? How do you see this “joke”, “trend”, whatever?

  • LilyVess@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    12 days ago

    That is a pretty nice approach tbh. Didn’t thought on just sucking the “fun” out of it.

    I think you’re right. I couldn’t express it well but the normalization and how “casual” those comments and “jokes” are thrown is disheartening.

    Thank you, I’ll keep that in mind <3