Reliably Liberal Humor Site Tweets ‘Transphobic’ Cat Joke and Trans-Twitter Goes NUTS!
I follow the nerd news site Boing Boing even though it’s pretty annoyingly leftist, which makes it even more enjoyable that they’re being castigated by their lefty followers for a pretty innocent and rather funny tweet:
— Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) April 17, 2015
UPDATE! They eventually deleted the tweet and added this:
We're sorry for this offensive tweet. Its transphobia was unintentional, but the hurt it caused is our responsibility pic.twitter.com/vGCqqIdU65
— Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) April 17, 2015
The problem of course, is that this is mocking the tranny trials and tranny tribulations of transgendered people. And boy where they called on it:
@BoingBoing Dude. Disappointingly transphobic. Not cool.
— Steph Ivy Whiteside (@stephgwhiteside) April 17, 2015
@stephgwhiteside wait WHAT it's literally a stoner cat joke. Some of US are Trans.
— Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) April 17, 2015
@stephgwhiteside jokes about cats and internet culture are okay! It doesn't mean we are mocking Trans people!
— Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) April 17, 2015
@stephgwhiteside jokes about cats and internet culture are okay! It doesn't mean we are mocking Trans people!
— Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) April 17, 2015
@BoingBoing yes it has cats, but it makes light of trans struggle. Humor should punch up, not make the ugly palatable with cats.
— dennis collective (@dnscollective) April 17, 2015
@sarahbrodsky Cats have always been companions to villainy.
— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) April 17, 2015
@BoingBoing I'm not on board with this sentiment at all. @VoxVorago
— KariAnn Ramadorai (@KariAnnWrites) April 17, 2015
@BoingBoing Wtf? I mean, there's no joke there besides "Trans* ppl are jokes!" …right?
— David Stieber (@dgstieber) April 17, 2015
It's oppressive to call @BoingBoing transphobic. @BoingBoing identifies as transphilic.
— Isegoria (@Isegoria) April 17, 2015
.@stephgwhiteside I look forward to a prompt apology from @BoingBoing. Cats make most things likable, but not transphobia. Furreal.
— dennis collective (@dnscollective) April 17, 2015
@BoingBoing I think you mean "we are sorry, we didn't realize we were being transphobic, thank you for educating us".
— dennis collective (@dnscollective) April 17, 2015
@BoingBoing Really? The transphobic oppression joke seemed like a good idea?
— Mike Clark (@shapelike) April 17, 2015
@anarchic_teapot @lizditz @BoingBoing It looked transphobic to me, before I saw any comments… if really a stoner cat joke, not a good one.
— Carrie Looney (@Carrie_Looney_) April 17, 2015
@BoingBoing are you really being transphobic?
— scuffy (@scuffy) April 17, 2015
@stephgwhiteside @BoingBoing This is a trope often used to mock trans* ppl. If some of u r trans* then u shd know that
— Gretchen Atwood (@gretchenatwood) April 17, 2015
.@BoingBoing oookay… this comes off as both transphobic ~and~ mocking of otherkin not cool, i'm both nonbinary and otherkin
— Star (@CassieHFox) April 17, 2015
Of course they apologized, but didn’t delete the offensive tweet:
@scuffy @dnscollective @shapelike @stephgwhiteside @kariannwrites @voxvorago @rachelcraves apologies for the stumble, & respect. we <3 you.
— Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) April 17, 2015
Good job, politically correct police. Now let’s go beat up some white Christians males or something.
Get ready America, the humorless PC mob will soon be after the rest of you too.
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