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I was about to go
through transition, and I worked up the courage
to tell one of my colleagues, and she's a very, very smart woman,
very, very talented musician, very well-educated, very worldly, and she looked at me and goes,
"You mean like Buffalo Bill?" Like, her only point of reference was this disgusting,
psychotic serial killer who hunts women
in order to kill them and skin them in order to wear their bodies,
to literally appropriate the female form, which is exactly,
like, the feminist, like, argument against the existence of trans women is we're trying to appropriate
the female form, and here he was doing it literally,
physically
through transition, and I worked up the courage
to tell one of my colleagues, and she's a very, very smart woman,
very, very talented musician, very well-educated, very worldly, and she looked at me and goes,
"You mean like Buffalo Bill?" Like, her only point of reference was this disgusting,
psychotic serial killer who hunts women
in order to kill them and skin them in order to wear their bodies,
to literally appropriate the female form, which is exactly,
like, the feminist, like, argument against the existence of trans women is we're trying to appropriate
the female form, and here he was doing it literally,
physically
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I was about to go
through transition,
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and I worked up the courage
to tell one of my colleagues,
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and she's a very, very smart woman,
very, very talented musician,
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very well-educated, very worldly,
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and she looked at me and goes,
"You mean like Buffalo Bill?"
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Like, her only point of reference
00:00:20.246 --> 00:00:25.634
was this disgusting,
psychotic serial killer
00:00:25.072 --> 00:00:29.327
who hunts women
in order to kill them and skin them
00:00:29.413 --> 00:00:33.324
in order to wear their bodies,
to literally appropriate the female form,
00:00:33.041 --> 00:00:35.757
which is exactly,
like, the feminist, like, argument
00:00:35.843 --> 00:00:37.032
against the existence of trans women
00:00:37.408 --> 00:00:39.276
is we're trying to appropriate
the female form,
00:00:39.362 --> 00:00:41.795
and here he was doing it literally,
physically.
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Movie Summary
An in-depth look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of those stories on transgender lives and American culture.
