Ricky Gervais doing a set on trans folks. Yeah Ricky, son, you speak your truth to power. The ones causing actual harm to ordinary people all over the world on an unfathomable scale every single day.īut he goes after trans people instead.
Ricky Gervais could go after the governments, banks, billionaires. To him we exist only as a punchline, a threat, something less than human. Ricky Gervais has a new stand up show out on Netflix today.ĥ minutes in and he’s making jokes about trans women attacking & raping people in public bathrooms. You can see a sample of additional reactions below: Thanks #TransRightsAreHumanRights /fuW0d169rg In honour of Ricky Gervais and his 2-4-1 rant on trans people and cancel culture, I am in fact, cancelling. It’s the bare minimum.”Īnother canceled his Netflix membership: “In honour of Ricky Gervais and his 2-4-1 rant on trans people and cancel culture, I am in fact, cancelling. At this point you can’t call yourself an ally if you’re not publicly taking a stand against it. To him we exist only as a punchline, a threat, something less than human.”Īnother wrote, “If you’re a comedian and you support trans people it’s your responsibility to be speaking out against Dave Chapelle and the new Ricky Gervais special. “5 minutes in and he’s making jokes about trans women attacking & raping people in public bathrooms. “Ricky Gervais has a new stand-up show out on Netflix today,” a trans woman tweeted. The social media backlash to SuperNature was quick. “I think people get offended when they mistake the subject of a joke with the actual target, and smart people know you can deal with anything, particularly when dealing with something like irony,” he told Colbert.
In an interview with Stephen Colbert on Late Show last week to promote the special, Gervais defended his decision to joke about “taboo” subjects, saying he wants to take “smart” audiences to a place they haven’t been before. Last year, Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special The Closer generated a huge backlash over remarks about the trans and LGBTQ+ communities, which sparked an employee walkout at the streamer. “I support all human rights, and trans rights are human rights. TERF stands for “Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist,” a term used to describe feminists who separate the rights of trans women from women’s rights in their advocacy.Īt the end of the special, Gervais issued a disclaimer that his jokes aimed at the trans community were solely for shock value: “Full disclosure: In real life of course I support trans rights,” Gervais explained. And now the old-fashioned ones say, ‘Oh, they want to use our toilets.’ ‘Why shouldn’t they use your toilets?’ ‘For ladies!’ ‘They are ladies - look at their pronouns! What about this person isn’t a lady?’ ‘Well, his penis.’ ‘Her penis, you fucking bigot!’ ‘What if he rapes me?’ ‘What if she rapes you, you fucking TERF whore?’” They’re great, aren’t they? The new ones we’ve been seeing lately. The old-fashioned women, the ones with wombs. “Not all women, I mean the old-fashioned ones. Just four minutes in, Gervais takes aim at trans women. PREVIOUS, 8:48 AM: Ricky Gervais’ new comedy special SuperNature was released on Netflix just hours ago, but he’s already getting a lot of heat over his graphic jokes mocking the trans community. He also spouts anti-gay rhetoric & spreads inaccurate information about HIV.
It’s full of graphic, dangerous, anti-trans rants masquerading as jokes.
We watched the Ricky Gervais "comedy" special on Netflix so you don’t have to. Gervais’ jokes in the special mocking the trans community have sparked swift backlash on social media. Netflix did not respond to Deadline’s request for a comment. Meanwhile, there are PLENTY of funny LGBTQ comedians to support,” the statement concluded. “The LGBTQ community and our allies have made it very clear that so-called comedians who spew hate in place of humor, and the media companies who give them a platform, will be held accountable. While Netflix is home to some groundbreaking LGBTQ shows, it refuses to enforce its own policy in comedy. “Netflix has a policy that content ‘designed to incite hate or violence’ is not allowed on their platform, but we all know that anti-LGBTQ content does exactly that. The statement continued: “Attention Ricky and Netflix: people living with HIV today, when on effective treatment, lead long and healthy lives and cannot transmit HIV to others. He also spouts anti-gay rhetoric & spreads inaccurate information about HIV,” the organization tweeted Tuesday. “We watched the Ricky Gervais ‘comedy’ special on Netflix so you don’t have to.
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