Trans People Are Not Deceptive -- Like This Ad From LA Car Guy Implies We Are

[Shana A]

Trans People Are Not Deceptive -- Like This Ad From LA Car Guy Implies We Are
by: Autumn Sandeen
Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 04:00:00 AM EDT

http://pamshouseblend.com/diary/11552/trans-people-are-not-deceptive-like-this-ad-from-la-car-guy-implies-we-are

Y'know, the trans panic strategy used in the Angie Zapata Hate Crime Murder Trial is way to fresh in my mind, where the defense implied (as defense attorneys always do when the trans panic defense is used) that the victim was deceptive in their presentation (usually male-bodied trans women presenting as women), and therefore is a mitigating factor in the commission of a violent "crime of passion."

So, below is a commercial from a Los Angeles group of auto dealerships that is literally showing a transgender woman as being incredibly deceptive -- not telling her husband that she was male-bodied, and he discovering the suprise on a desert road to what we're left presuming would have been the honeymoon. (Really!)

[Miniar]

Bad taste.
Poor attempt at humor.
Allround bad decision to go with this ad.

[Syne]

Anyone else follow one of the links in the comments to a post about someone who was just brutally murdered?

[Shana A]

Yes, I posted about this earlier today https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,61290.msg396734.html#msg396734. Truly sad!!!

Z

[Alyssa M.]

To me, "funny" becomes "offensive" when the joke is "ZOMG, that woman's a DUDE, dude!" rather than actually joke with any originality. Go ahead, make jokes about trans people. Just don't make the joke be the trans person.

Also -- wow, what crappy execution -- hmm, you're going on your honeymoon, and you're just now finding out that your wife uses a Freshette?