Quote from: Miniar on January 21, 2011, 06:30:36 AM
The reactions are similar to the ones we face in reality.
Ida's son was supportive of her in the end.
Ida was a well spoken, intelligent, good looking woman, not an over the top caricature.

How is this offensive?
It's just,... true.

The Family Guy depiction and the Simpsons depiction are two parts of a dichotomy of how trans women are depicted in the media that Lisa Harney of Questioning Transphobia calls the stealthy deciever/man in a dress double bind or the "deceptive transsexual" and the "pathetic transsexual". The characters in the Simpsons are "pathetic transsexuals" whereas Ida being good looking and not a caricature is part of the "deceptive transsexual" trope because she "tricks" other characters into sleeping with her, and the butt of the joke is when they find out she is "really a man". If Ida was a "pathetic transsexual" then the joke will not work because the other characters would not be "tricked" by her.

Except she's not depicted as scheming or deliberately deceptive.
She's depicted as a girl who meets a guy and is happy afterwards, telling her son that she's met someone special.

Quote from: tekla on January 23, 2011, 07:31:38 AM
As opposed the the way they treated hippies in Die Hippie, Die?

But we all want to kill hippies, with their crystals and vampyres and ley lines and yogurt fancying.
As for the clip you posted, I'm sure it was hilarious, but I didn't understand a word - well, that and American race humour doesn't tend to work so well in London, we have our own stereotypes and such to play with,