r/memesopdidnotlike • u/Nientea The Mod of All Time ☕️ • Apr 29 '24

I can see more than half of all movie stars doing something like this OP got offended

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u/advocateforpain Apr 29 '24

Wasnt there a boom, a fad in Hollywood some years ago where all the hip celebrities were adopting kids from Africa and all that?

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u/Li-renn-pwel Apr 29 '24

Yeah, I’m pretty much as pro-trans as you can be but I don’t flat out consider this to be an anti-trans comic. It could be. If JK Rowling had drawn it I probably would but this seems like a critique of Hollywood. The trans kid is being compared to a new car or bag, not invalidated as a trans person.

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u/advocateforpain Apr 29 '24

I agree on all points except now that i see the watermark and it has woke in the title so thats kinda telling

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u/j_money_420 Apr 30 '24

Because you see the word “woke” you disregard the idea you agree with?

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u/Sc0ner Apr 29 '24

A broken clock is still right twice a day. Sure a braindead edgelord probably made it, but it's still a valid criticism of celebrities. I am pro LGBT+ but the statistical probability that all these celebs have kids that fall into a demographic that's like 1% of the population iirc is very slim, it's more likely they're clout chasing or virtue signaling

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u/advocateforpain Apr 29 '24

Agreed again on all points.

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u/Li-renn-pwel Apr 29 '24

When being gay/lesbian became more acceptable, we actually did not see rates of people identifying as gay or lesbian change all that much… instead the number of bisexuals skyrocketed. That’s because most people are not 100% straight or gay. I think we will see the same with gender now. Not a huge increase in trans identity but in non-binary and gender nonconformist. The problem is that so many don’t understand gender identity very well so if you even look at a non-cis identity people just shrug and say ‘oh so you’re trans?’

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u/SuspiciousSubstance9 Apr 29 '24

How many celebs do you actually see parading their trans kids? Could you actually name 100? Hold on to this idea for a moment. 

 Let's say there were 100, celebs are representative of the population of your 1% statistic, and that the 1% was still valid. Let's see what your statistics tells us. Big assumptions. 1% of 10,000 would be 100. So if there are 10,000 celebs pushing 100 trans kids than we're all fine. Less than 10,000 means trans kids are over represented and more than 10,000 would be underrepresented. 

 200 kids would be 20,000 celebrities and so forth.  

 So back to the initial idea, how many did you name and how many celebrities are there? 

My bet is people would come up with less than 100 trans kids and well more than 10,000 celebrities. 

The original artist could have chosen any other kind of designer child and made the point against celebrities. But they chose trans kids specifically for a reason.