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South Park is not a show to watch if you don't have skin of iron.
They go out of their way to offend as many people as possible, but I think they do so in a way that's indiscriminate. They even try to offend themselves.
I love South Park, but damn, the Mr Garrison trans episodes are just, ahhhhhhhhhggggggggggg.
So you are laughing when they make fun of others and only getting upset when they make fun of people like you.
I'm neurodivergent, and I laugh in many instances South Park made fun of neudivergent and mentally disabled people. I'm Latin American, South Park made fun of latin americans so many times. I'm progressive, South Park made fun of progressives so many times. I'm atheist, same thing. I'm bisexual, same thing, I could go on.
The problem with the Mr Garrison episodes is that, they are so viscerally transphobic, it is very obviously made in such bad faith.
Of course they are not the worse thing depicted in South Park, but yeah, a show with the objective to be as offensive as possible gotta hit somewhere in a very personal point eventually.
I don't think anyone should take Mr. Garrison's arc to heart. They did kinda point out in an earlier episode that Mr. Garrison isn't what he thinks he is. He's not gay, trans or anything else in that direction.
He's messed up. And that's all he is and all he's supposed to be. At least that's my take-away from the show.
Sadly, that's not enough, just as Jaws did damage to shark conservation and The Silence of the Lambs did damage to Trans acceptance, even though it's super clear Buffalo Bill is not conventionally trans but his own special kind of crazy.
Then again, our love for police procedurals and serial killer mysteries does damage to mental health awareness and police brutality awareness. Also judicial overreach. (Lots of false convictions.)
For sure. I was mostly hoping that people don't feel like the show makes a personal comparison to them.
The masses, on the other hand, require disturbingly little to push them over the edge. As you pointed out with Jaws and Silence. Hell, the amount of people that can't distinguish between actor and character is astounding.
This in and of itself is part of the problem: It's a common terf talking point. Trans people don't exist they just have a mental health problem.