I’ve been feeling down lately and I started re-watching futurama for some good nostalgia, but it keeps making transphobic jokes which is kind of just making me feel worse. Anyone have any suggestions for comfort shows to watch?

  • rgb3x3 ( rgb3x3@beehaw.org ) 
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    3 years ago

    What transphobic jokes are in Futurama? I can’t seem to remember anything specific.

    The Good Place is a great series.

    Stranger Things perhaps.

    Avatar Last Airbender and Legend of Korra

    Bob’s Burgers

    • Futurama had that one Episode “Bend-Her” where bender decides they suck too much to compete in the mens robo-lympics so he gets gender reassignment to crush all the fembots and get a gold medal… If they made that full length episode, i’m sure there are plenty of one offs and side gags throughout that didn’t stick out to me at the time.

      • lobut ( lobut@lemmy.ca ) 
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        3 years ago

        I hated that episode. That type of premise felt out of date when it was released.

        It was surprising to me because they had a really early episode where Leela beat up her sensei really because he was sexist so it was so weird that “Bend-her” was a choice.

    • I’ve been rewatching Futurama and honestly there is a lot of jokes even in the first season that made me uncomfortable. Mostly sight gags of horribly depicted trans femmes played for laughs. I wouldn’t call it a safe show.