Grand Theft Auto 5

[Drakul]

Originally Posted by drave82 Same for Family Guy. "Typical FG humor" is always offensive to someone, somewhere.

The FG trans episode and the other episode featuring Quagmires trans dad go beyond typical FG humour.
*When she first appears as male, she is acting in a massively stereotypically gay way, wrongly linking gay and being trans together.
*It's insinuated she sleeps around.
*The entire transition takes something crazy like an hour.
*Everytime she is spoken to or spoken about, she is called a monster, a freak, not a real women and so on. Every character treats her like shit.
*Brian called her "it" and then threw up for 40 seconds uninterrupted when he found out she was born male and he had slept with her.
*He then compared being trans to being a sex offender "Aren't they supposed to notify the neighbourhood?! That's the way it works!"

The character is nothing but a punching bag. What really floors me is Seth McFarlane claims he genuinely thought transpeople would like it.

Originally Posted by Kalyx triaD Like the others say, this is the world of GTA. And I never them giving special attention to trans-people. More than likely you just notice it more because of your perspective. So no I don't think it's going out of its way to offense any one group.

I've had that discussion with a specialist I see. (TV etc leaves out the years or psychological analysis required before you can transition.)
I brought up a few bad news stories I had read and he mentioned that being in a certain group means you'll see more of it, meaning you'll see more of the bad stuff. So, you're probably right about me noticing more because it's directly effecting me.

I still think they dragged it on (no pun intended) a little too much. I wouldn't expect them not to take a jab at transpeople because I do actually believe in the idea of "if we can joke about those people, we can joke about these people." with comedy but there are multiple jabs and some are a little too hard. I'm not as sensitive as many transpeople are. I can't recall or imagine another group they jabbed so often in a single game.

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Originally Posted by Drakul The FG trans episode and the other episode featuring Quagmires trans dad go beyond typical FG humour. *When she first appears as male, she is acting in a massively stereotypically gay way, wrongly linking gay and being trans together. *It's insinuated she sleeps around. *The entire transition takes something crazy like an hour. *Everytime she is spoken to or spoken about, she is called a monster, a freak, not a real women and so on. Every character treats her like shit. *Brian called her "it" and then threw up for 40 seconds uninterrupted when he found out she was born male and he had slept with her. *He then compared being trans to being a sex offender "Aren't they supposed to notify the neighbourhood?! That's the way it works!" The character is nothing but a punching bag. What really floors me is Seth McFarlane claims he genuinely thought transpeople would like it.

From my reading of these examples I'd say they were mocking the people who hold this antiquated views on the matter rather than the transgender community.