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From Keep It, 2020-07-08 (01:13:13 to 01:14:48):
| Aida Osman: | Hollywood is more obsessed with trans people and their transition, rather than the fact that they're fucking people. I don't give a shit that in The Danish Girl it's someone transitioning -- that means that you guys continue to tell stories about people who are transitioning rather than trans people just living their fucking life. |
| Louis Virtell: | Right, it's the difference between fetishization of transness, and letting trans people tell their own stories. And if you think to yourself, "If a trans preson is telling you their own story are they going to fixate on that?" The answer is "probably not," right? So why are cis people making descisions to keep focusing on that? |
| Aida Osman: | Exactly, exactly. |
| Ira Madison III: | We got a lot of this in Disclosure, which we had talked about last week. I do appreciate that Halle issued a statement -- |
| Aida Osman: | She did, she has since issued an apology. |
| Ira Madison III: | -- fully apologized, and hopefully she will watch Disclosure and learn more about it. But it is this weird obsession with a trans person's genitalia and the transitioning that happens in these stories s much. I mean, we get that in other queer stories too; where there's just this fixation either on violence against queer people, or the coming out story, and it's just always thinking that our lives center always around this one event that is titillating to you, and it robs trans people and other queer people of their stories that happen to the rest of their lives. |
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