On last Wednesday's episode of "
South Park," a Randy Savage-type character enters and wins a Strong Woman competition. The supposed joke? Her name is Heather. Hulking with muscle and sporting a dark beard and gruff voice, she quickly dispenses with the competition. Looking on in shy discomfort are PC Principal and his wife, vice principal Strong Woman, who parent the PC Babies, the show's tongue-in-cheek caricature of hyper-progressive white liberals. As Heather arrogantly sweeps a barrage of women's competitions, bragging that she can beat any woman, her bad attitude tests the mettle of their liberal goodwill.
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The opening scene begins during Garrison's surgery, which begins with the doctor explaining the process and technique in great detail, with a mocking tone implying that vaginoplasty is disgusting and ridiculous. The camera cuts out of its animated world to show real surgical footage, gawking under a literal microscope at a process that is for many a joyous, affirming, and life-saving surgery.
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Kyle gets the idea to turn himself into a tall black man, so he can play basketball. The doctor calls the surgery a "negroplasty," and later performs a "dolphinoplasty" on Kyle's father, turning him into a dolphin.
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But the most offensive lines [...] in the episode come from Garrison herself, when she becomes incensed that she can't get her period or get pregnant. "This would mean I'm not really a woman. I'm just a guy with a mutilated penis," Garrison says. "You made me into a freak."
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