ClickyCal'

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There's been a very real shift in the tone of South Park's humor around season 10. They used to dump on anything, but the laser focus on transfolk and complete and total invalidation is well documented, unwarranted and ultimately extremely confusing coming from them.
It's not really confusing at all. They are just bigoted transphobic assholes.
 

Mesoian

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It's not really confusing at all. They are just bigoted transphobic assholes.

I mean that is the only explanation because the ire comes out of nowhere, is apropos of nothing and flies in the face of any attempts they had previously made at being, or at least seeming, queer-positive.

It was like, literally, one day a switch got flipped and they started going at Transfolk with the same ire they went after the Mormon church with. Like, Matt, Trey, who hurt you?
 

ArjanN

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I mean that is the only explanation because the ire comes out of nowhere, is apropos of nothing and flies in the face of any attempts they had previously made at being, or at least seeming, queer-positive.

It was like, literally, one day a switch got flipped and they started going at Transfolk with the same ire they went after the Mormon church with. Like, Matt, Trey, who hurt you?

To be fair it's not like the politics of older South Park stuff were really any good either. It was a lot of having your cake and eating it too in terms of racist jokes, and a bunch of both-side ism politics because as two white guys who are insulated by their money it's easy to feel above it all. That said the show did become pretty wildly transphobic at a point.
 

ClickyCal'

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I mean that is the only explanation because the ire comes out of nowhere, is apropos of nothing and flies in the face of any attempts they had previously made at being, or at least seeming, queer-positive.

It was like, literally, one day a switch got flipped and they started going at Transfolk with the same ire they went after the Mormon church with. Like, Matt, Trey, who hurt you?
They've just always been transphobic.
 

Ashes of Dreams

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Nah, fuck Parker/Stone and South Park. Transphobic assholes that get away with so much "both sides" bullshit because they appealed to white straight cis millennials apathy 20 years ago.