It’s honestly funny that he’s destroyed his entire life over what was fairly mild criticism of an single IT Crowd episode. Well it would be, except the entire British media class and the bloody government comes out moaning about ‘freeze peach’ because he got talked to for incited violence against trans people.
Yeah, if they did more than just make “she’s a woman who likes man things” jokes it could have been great, it even ends by saying Douglas was in the wrong. It’s honestly not even that bad by 2000s sitcom standards, it came out 2 years before that Family Guy episode. Which makes Glinner destroying his entire life over it all the more morbidly fascinating.
But like, it mostly kinda is? Like there are handful of dumb jokes like ‘trans woman is super strong’ but she is portrayed as a beautiful woman who is nice and smart and the conclusion is Douglas being sad because he broke up with her for the stupid reason of transphobia. IIRC Linehan even pointed this out and was proud to be pro-trans at the time. Then he went insane.
an episode of the show IT crowd, featuring one of the main cast dating a trans woman, without being aware that she is trans, ending with that charecter getting into a physical fight with her at the end of the episode, after finding out.
it’s messy and transphobic, but actually also could be read as wholsome in parts, if it werent intended to be transphobic :<
It’s honestly funny that he’s destroyed his entire life over what was fairly mild criticism of an single IT Crowd episode. Well it would be, except the entire British media class and the bloody government comes out moaning about ‘freeze peach’ because he got talked to for incited violence against trans people.
I think about that episode constantly.
It could have been such a great pro-trans episode with even just minor tweaks
Yeah, if they did more than just make “she’s a woman who likes man things” jokes it could have been great, it even ends by saying Douglas was in the wrong. It’s honestly not even that bad by 2000s sitcom standards, it came out 2 years before that Family Guy episode. Which makes Glinner destroying his entire life over it all the more morbidly fascinating.
Which episode of Family Guy are you referring to?
Quagmire’s Dad, if I had to guess
Oh right, yeah, (s)he’s trans!
Also Chandler’s dad, from Friends!
But like, it mostly kinda is? Like there are handful of dumb jokes like ‘trans woman is super strong’ but she is portrayed as a beautiful woman who is nice and smart and the conclusion is Douglas being sad because he broke up with her for the stupid reason of transphobia. IIRC Linehan even pointed this out and was proud to be pro-trans at the time. Then he went insane.
Which episode are you all referring to? 🙏
an episode of the show IT crowd, featuring one of the main cast dating a trans woman, without being aware that she is trans, ending with that charecter getting into a physical fight with her at the end of the episode, after finding out.
it’s messy and transphobic, but actually also could be read as wholsome in parts, if it werent intended to be transphobic :<
Weird, I don’t remember that episode. I’ll have to rewatch it with the Mrs, she hasn’t seen the show. I’ll keep an eye out, thanks!
Iirc, some of the streaming sites now exclude that episode from being shown
Oh I’m not worried about streaming sites 💽🏴☠️🫡
It’s the episode with the Internet button.
Yeah, no, it’s been too long. 😅 Guess that’s a good sign I need to rewatch the entire show!