DaGaffer
Down With That Sorta Thing
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No, it's a Meme which ridicules and undermines a genuine movement, i'm sure you'd raise your eyebrows if the 'joke' (which wasn't even remotely funny) was homophobic/racist etc.
It's a bit like lots of people hate Muslims, but have never met one and their only exposure is through terrorist attacks reported on the news. You can tell it's something created by the alt-right because it's not funny and that's their new attempt at getting support for their policies - memes.
It's this kind of shit that makes you come to your conclusions about 'everyone being able to identify what they want and everyone has to accept it' makes it sound like everyone in the world is just flipping through genders at will, I bet there's way more people that whine about transgender people than there are actual transgenderz.
Problem is, there really is a militant group of trans...(I really can't keep up with the nomenclature)...rights activists, who sit entirely in this space. Gender as a state of mind, rather than any physical reality. Emily is a joke to make an exaggerated point, a role that jokes are apparently no longer allowed to do.
Of course the best version of this joke was made 40 years ago, her name was Loretta, and it's still valid.