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We exist in a time when @netflix has a brilliant documentary called "Disclosure" about how disgusting movies like Ace Ventura are towards trans people, but it also streams Ace Ventura!
Why is Netflix still streaming a movie that is horrifically transphobic?
Why is Netflix still streaming a movie that is horrifically transphobic?
For anyone who doesn't know, a major plot point (spoiler) is that the bad "guy" is a trans woman. It's revealed in a scene where the woman is "comically" stripped and shown to be tucking. Ace pukes about sleeping with her. Many other men puke about it too.
The idea that it's utterly disgusting to sleep with a trans woman gives rise to the "trans panic" defence in cases where it is claimed that discovering someone is trans is a mitigating factor in assault or murder of a trans person.
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