Depression is a serious mental illness that can effect literally anyone. The "you can't be depressed because I have it worse" argument is incredibly selfish. Depression is not an Olympic sport.
Not only that, they're essentially saying mental illness is a social construct. That if you're not gay/black/trans/whatever, then your depression isn't that serious and you should walk it off, and you have no right to talk about it or try and empathise with others. Essentially the complete opposite tack you're
meant to take with mental illness, all so you can score more oppression points. Once again SJWs displaying that empathy they're so famous for.
It pretty much wasn't, though. People who were there said it was overtly sexual and they were throwing dollar bills at him just like he was a stripper.
I can't talk to the sexual aspect, and it does creep me out, but I believe that in the US at least that's also how you tip drag queens, by giving/throwing money at them during performances.
What if the trans person just isn't a good actor?
They're such a small fraction of society, and considering how few a) even attempt to pass, and b) can seem to hide their crazy from the world, it's no wonder most of them aren't any good at acting. Also, what if the show wants to show a trans character both pre- and post-transition? Can't do that with an actual trans actor. Same as those people complaining about, say, The Rock playing a character missing a leg in Skyscraper - the film showed him both with and without the leg, something you couldn't do with an actual amputee.
I get the 'I don't want to just be happy for the representation scraps I get' argument, and if they had real examples I'd understand, but they always,
always go to an argument that comes down to 'bad things shouldn't happen to minorities!' There's a thing a couple of years ago about all these lesbians being killed in shows, when about three died within a couple of months of each other. And the argument boiled down to 'we saw a pattern, so you're killing all the gays!' when instead these were frequently popular characters whose deaths had a real impact on the show they were on and had a strong story reason to exist.
But no, identity politics. The only important thing about these characters were that they were lesbians, and therefore shouldn't die. These are the same people who object to a bisexual character being bisexual instead of only dating the same sex, and the same people who hold grudges for decades against show-runners who kill their favourite character because how dare they presume to have control over the world they've created. So they complain about representation not being up to scratch, but also demand that the representation be a flawless, invulnerable character whose only real characteristic is their minority status. And then they get to complain about them having to be a perfect minority.
All they want to do is complain. I wish more people with influence in these matters would learn to just ignore them.
), these gays have to be complete idiots for not knowing HOW BAD THIS LOOKS if they want to shake the "gays are pedophiles" stigma.
