Netflix urged to take down Dave Chapelle’s show after accusations of ‘anti-LGBT diatribes’

I watched with my adult son and it is amazing. He points out how the trans community have had it in for him from the starts and without ruining or spoiling the show he tells of a good trans friend of his and it is moving and sad and uplifting. It is one of his best shows. I do not care if someone is trans straight gay etc but I do care if a trans person is in the women's toilets and they still have a penis. Women need our safe spaces.

Just finished watching this and truly believe it was amazing! Love Dave Chappelle and his message. As he said, empathy goes in ALL directions!

I think Moore should mind the door doesn't hit theys arse on the way out.

Those photos 😮

How can people see those and still not believe there are transwomen for whom it is basically a fetish riding on the coat tails of the movement?

And as Moore is reportedly 6'5" tall and has a penchant for sleeveless tops that means whoever is sitting next to Moore on a flight, for example (as described on Moore's Twitter in August, about the spurty penis one) has the image stuck in their face for hours.

Dh and I have watched the show now. It took us a while to tune into the level of irony but once we had got it we came away thinking he is very clever, very precise in his language, sophisticated in his irony and with a serious ethical purpose. Which was not what I expected at all given that he absolutely is deliberately shocking.
He is absolutely nothing like Jim Davidson and I am at a loss as to how anyone could think that.

Final paragraph from Glinner

A white man who LARPs as a woman and worked on a show that was supposed to be by and about people of colour is claiming that a black comedian is oppressing him. What a time to be alive.

The photos are quite something.

grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/variety-a-white-male-oppression-tourist?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=

Glinner has posted about Moore, be warned though there are photos of them on there that you may wish you hadn’t seen.

Dave Chappelle just made me cool in a section of SM world, in the sense of not a sad old cunt but an organised Greenham t*r f warrior. Don't know quite how I feel about that tbh.

The ‘you owe me royalties’ thing was bonkers. As if ‘Mike Pence might be gay!’ was such a clever joke that Chapelle couldn’t possibly have thought of it independently.
It made the author come across as not very rooted in reality.

That was very funny LostButtons.

Ultimately, comedy does work on thin ice and that's why it's enjoyable.

I love the part Dave Chappelle talks about and compared it to Eminem winning 'black man' of the year. Although he uses slightly different language.

Oh, that letter RoyalCorgi! What an ode to entitlement and professional victimhood!

My eyes rolled straight out of my head. While of course they have every right to publish a critical take on Chappelle, and I totally understand if he offended people past the point of no return, this was just so, so bad. Badly written, badly argued, and in bad faith. Dread to think how smug Mx is feeling today about it.

I got to 'Dave you owe me royalties' and stopped reading. Of course he does. Every damn time.

I was being facetious. I've followed his career long enough to know his schtick - the rest of post infers such. He so obviously isn't.

He's not an ally

This "ally" "not an ally" is so silly. Back in the day when I was ridiculously left wing I was still very grateful when Ann Widdecombe and the late Alan Clark both opposed transport of veal calves.

Americans do this though, IME. There are lots of what would be considered transphobic memes that say things like: "if I had a dollar for every gender that exists, I'd have two dollars."

Americans seem to be a bit prudish about the word sex.

Brendan O'Neill's take on it.

In his own way Brendan O'Neill has achieved uncancellable status too.

www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/08/brendan-on-dave-chapelle/

And I'm not entirely sure he really gets it as he misquoted JKR and used the word 'gender' as opposed to 'sex'.

Americans do this though, IME. There are lots of what would be considered transphobic memes that say things like: "if I had a dollar for every gender that exists, I'd have two dollars."

Dave Chapelle is an interesting ally in all this and I doubt his support stems from his new found support for women's rights. He commented that rapper Da Baby's career suffered practically zero consequences for killing a man a few years ago but now has for making homophobic comments at concert not too long ago. And I'm not entirely sure he really gets it as he misquoted JKR and used the word 'gender' as opposed to 'sex'.

The Guardian has a typically humourless take on it:

www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/09/dave-chappelle-letter-trans-comedian-netflix

Plenty to enjoy in there, including:

"What could be a greater mockery than you throwing Black women under the bus to cape for JK Rowling, an insidious white woman?"

Insidious, eh? That'll larn her.

And:

"We listen when you compare our genders to blackface, as if both were defined by slapping on some paint, to make a mockery of those we oppress."

Er...

@Lea1437

Nevermind the head tilt, what about the tattoo

And to suddenly in the space of 2 days have to face the fact that the vast, vast majority of people think you are a disgrace. For taking the showrunner job on DWP. For criticising Chappelle. For being a ridiculous, attention seeking imitation of a woman. For your stupid fucking head tilt.

I really am so socialised to empathy that I felt bad for Moore even though, to be totally honest, Moore makes my skin crawl. And then I saw that tattoo. And fucking fuck. It's so utterly fucking disgustingly contemptuous of women. I'm honestly so very repulsed. I do feel potentially really bad for the tattoo artist. I really, really hope it wasn't a woman who felt socially compelled, yet deeply uncomfortable spending hours on what is clearly a fetish act.

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