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Your statement is based on what exactly?

his jokes about caitlyn jenner in his show "humanity". i can understand poking fun at celebrities (especially moronic ones like the kardashians & jenners), & i can even understand joking about her hitting someone with a car, but he goes on with a very long skit where he constantly deadnames her, talks about her genitals, & refers to her as a boy & a man repeatedly. he had previously made a one-off joke where he deadnamed her & people online had tried to educate him as to why that was disrespectful, & in response he did an entire transphobic routine in his show where the butt of the joke was making fun of caitlyn jenner for being transgender & laughing at people for being rightfully upset at transphobia. i highly suggest watching it for yourself to get the full picture; it's in his show "humanity" on netflix, & i believe it's in the first episode, near the beginning, if memory serves me well. it was deliberately offensive & demeaning. don't get me wrong, it's great that he's an animal rights activist & before i saw his transphobic skit i actually enjoyed some of his content, but he's not a very nice person.

Can you provide some link? Never heard about that

here's the link. https://youtu.be/7ICG_hLLfbM notice how he says he was told that deadnaming is offensive, says he would never do it now that he knows, & then goes on to do it multiple times in a row for the sake of "comedy" & laughing at the fact that a trans woman "used to be a man." not to mention the extremely inappropriate comments & gestures about her genitals. it's deliberately harmful.

Thanks. Will watch

I watched Humanity too Sleazy Weaver, that part made me really uncomfortable and I had to turn him off.

thank you bexxxxx, i'm glad i'm not the only one. the comment section on the youtube link i provided is awful, & it goes to show just how damaging this sort of content is. people are supporting his behavior & calling transgender people all kinds of names for "not being able to take a joke" when all we want is basic respect. it's horrible that this even has to be debated so i thank you for your support.

It’s awful isn’t it :( I mean there’s jokes, and then there’s jokes that go way too far and start being really gross. The jokes Ricky Gervais was making were pretty nasty and hostile. That was a lot more than just friendly-style roasting transgender folks, there was some honestly terrifying hatred in those “jokes.” People keep defending him like “it’s just a joke,” but they’re completely missing the fact that no, that’s not just a joke. Humans are such bullies. You deserve all the basic respect in the world and then much much more for having to deal with it.

Ricky Gervaise isn't remotely transphobic. He just hates liars, manipulators, idiots and lazy people. So, about 98% of all of humanity. And he lashes out against all of those.

Honestly Stephanie IV, I’m one of the least PC people you’ll ever meet, but I have transgender friends and the thought of them hearing those jokes and feeling like garbage made me feel sick and turn it off. He went too far this time, it wasn’t cool 🤷‍♀️

I watched the bit. I found it very scathing and very callous - in my eyes it’s not transphobic. It’s about - in his eyes - egocentric maniacs who he thinks are trying to make everything about themselves. I think he isn’t attacking Caitlyn Jenner at all. He’s attacking people who he assumes pretend that hearing their dead name is such an issue that they need to be excessively hurt by it. Gervaise is probably very easily offended himself - he just doesn’t have such visible boundaries. So he forcibly tried to direct attention to what in his eyes seems to be brainwashing. He seems to be of the opinion that it’s ok to change your gender but you don’t get a say in how others react to it and you’re an idiot if that matters to you.

But deadnaming transgender people IS that much of an issue, Stephanie. You don’t seem like you understand it at all. (And thus probably shouldn’t be trying to squeeze your personal opinion in…) Thanks for trying at least, I appreciate that you took the time to watch that video and see why other people had an issue with it. That’s very commendable, keep up that behaviour 👏 . But until you can actually understand why and how that sh!t hits transgender people so hard, you won’t be able to understand why what Ricky Gervais said went too far. There’s a lot of oppression behind deadnaming someone - and the thing about transgender people is that that abusive oppression is unique to each person. The level of abuse they’ve had to tolerate is wildly varying among individuals - some have very accepting friends and family but still have to deal with outside bullies & society BS, but some are driven to suicide or worse because of how unaccepted they are by absolutely anyone they know, and everything in between - but each one of them HAS experienced some kind of abuse guaranteed (especially at the hands of society and the internet) and it’s awful and traumatic and sh!tty. If people are telling you that your words and actions are hurting them, you don’t get to tell them that they’re just dumb and wrong. Also ps: if you change your gender, other people can have whatever reaction they want but they’d better be ready to deal with the consequences of that (and not be a crybaby about it) if they’re going to be an absolutely garbage human to another human being for no reason, just saying 🤷‍♀️ We should be celebrating people for finding themselves and finally feeling brave enough to live their true lives, not being closed-minded buttholes about it. We’re just a bunch of weird hairless monkey things having our very very brief moment on a big wet rock floating through some infinite empty space for Christ’s sake, just let people be happy for once. (Sorry everyone, that was long, rant over.)

Of course. Nobody gets to dictate anybody’s reaction to their own actions. Nobody gets to pick and choose what others can and will do to them. I’d say, invest in education in both sides and grow a thick skin. You can assume that I don’t understand or don’t care about other people’s feelings as much as you please. I welcome your entertaining your own ideas and views. Do they interest me? Yes. Do they matter to my personal sense of peace? No.

watch the link i provided & tell me he isn't transphobic. he isn't critiquing caitlyn jenner's personality or actions (which i have no opinion on either way, so i'm not defending her for the sake of defending her), he's mocking her for being transgender. why does being wanted to be treated with respect deserve so much backlash? he's transphobic. i am telling you, as a transgender person, that he is fostering an extremely hateful & demeaning attitude towards people in my community & encouraging it in thousands of others by sharing it with such a large audience. it's sickening.

I’ll watch it.

Seen it now. Not remotely transphobic in my honest opinion.