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I've been feeling down lately and I started re-watching futurama for some good nostalgia, but it keeps making transphobic jokes which is kind of just making me feel worse. Anyone have any suggestions for comfort shows to watch?

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[-] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What transphobic jokes are in Futurama? I can't seem to remember anything specific.

The Good Place is a great series.

Stranger Things perhaps.

Avatar Last Airbender and Legend of Korra

Bob's Burgers

[-] NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 11 months ago

Futurama had that one Episode "Bend-Her" where bender decides they suck too much to compete in the mens robo-lympics so he gets gender reassignment to crush all the fembots and get a gold medal..... If they made that full length episode, i'm sure there are plenty of one offs and side gags throughout that didn't stick out to me at the time.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago

I hated that episode. That type of premise felt out of date when it was released.

It was surprising to me because they had a really early episode where Leela beat up her sensei really because he was sexist so it was so weird that "Bend-her" was a choice.

[-] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

I've been rewatching Futurama and honestly there is a lot of jokes even in the first season that made me uncomfortable. Mostly sight gags of horribly depicted trans femmes played for laughs. I wouldn't call it a safe show.

[-] Froyn@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Bob's was the first thing that popped to mind.
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