Saturday Night Live took a big step backwards in their faux-commercial for Estro-Maxx. I understand it's live TV and sometimes skits win and others lose, but at least one of the writers should have known that not only is the bit not funny, it's downright offensive to trans people.
Here's my beef. Using trans people or gay men or lesbians or whoever in a comedy skit isn't a problem. The problem comes when the sexual minority becomes the joke. Trans people are not a punch line, and I can think of a dozen ways that skit could have been less offensive, but mostly it shouldn't have happened at all.
It would be like doing a comedy sketch where the punch line was that the character was Jewish. Though there are great jokes about Jewish people, they are not the laugh-line. So to SNL I say, grow up and start writing something genuinely funny instead of falling back on a cheap laugh that is just plain offensive.
Here is the sketch for those who are interested.
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