Saw this comedian for the first time on new Mock the Week episode 3 recently. She's short and slim, has short hair, a female voice and face and was wearing a baggy floral jumper. Clearly the name Sarah is a typically female one. I had issues with almost everything she said.
According to the internet she identifies as non binary and has chosen to have a mastectomy. She has a girlfriend. She prefers they/them pronouns.
Her 'jokes' were:
1: complaining that strangers often think she's a young boy. Funny that when you choose to butcher your female sex markers and wear a typically boy hair cut. I mean, wear your hair how you like, wear what you like. But if you choose to style yourself like a young boy don't be offended when someone thinks you are one. Yes she looks younger than her age but a lot of that is through her own choices. If she wore long hair, had boobs and wore make up and female clothing nobody would ever think she was a boy. It's her choice so why is she complaining?
2: she mentioned being 'gay', having a girlfriend and joked that she didn't know what a penis was. I thought being gay meant attracted to the same sex. So surely by saying that, she's acknowledging her female sex and yet getting offended if others call her female.
3: 'gender is a social construct'. It's true. But if you believe that then why not say 'I'm female and can choose to dress however/wear my hair however/shag whoever I choose and it doesn't change my sex'??? Why instead lean into the social construct and make it your whole personality?
4: old people think I mean more than one person when I use they/them pronouns. Well that's because they are literally the third person plural pronouns, ocassionally used in a very specific way to talk about a single person whose gender is unknown to the speaker. When you use language wrongly, it confuses people.
Massively frustrated watching her. My impression was all the other comedians were rolling their eyes a bit about the gender stuff and not finding her particularly funny.
Anyone else see it?