Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Onions Tend to Stink [Updated with commentary on The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, and SNL, which all managed to rip on trans women in the past week] The Onion posted a short article today, titled “Nation Did Not See Mark Wahlberg’s Sex Change Coming”. Inspired by this slice of totally-original-not-at-all-cliche-or-damaging humor, I whipped up a funny infographic for them, free of charge… (read more) [Image is of a Venn Diagram titled, “What lazy-ass jokes are we making today?” 12% is “chick probably has a dick”, 41% is “dude looks like a lady”, 13% is “trannies are ugly amirite?”, and 34% is “trans women (especially trans women of color) are at a much higher risk of being murdered than the general population”. In the background there are drawings of somebody holding a knife, and a gun.]

Onions Tend to Stink

[Updated with commentary on The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, and SNL, which all managed to rip on trans women in the past week]

The Onion posted a short article today, titled “Nation Did Not See Mark Wahlberg’s Sex Change Coming”. Inspired by this slice of totally-original-not-at-all-cliche-or-damaging humor, I whipped up a funny infographic for them, free of charge…

(read more)

[Image is of a Venn Diagram titled, “What lazy-ass jokes are we making today?” 12% is “chick probably has a dick”, 41% is “dude looks like a lady”, 13% is “trannies are ugly amirite?”, and 34% is “trans women (especially trans women of color) are at a much higher risk of being murdered than the general population”. In the background there are drawings of somebody holding a knife, and a gun.]

Posted at 12:43 PM 243 notes Tags: cissexism mtf original the onion trans trans women transgender transphobia trigger warning tw

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