Dave Chappelle Cont./The Difference Between A TERF and a Transphobe/The Audience Loved It
I just I dunno folks
I watched the whole special
I thought it was pretty tasteless
To joke about a dead friend, but
Comedians do worse things than that all the time
I’m still failing to understand
What Dave Chappelle said
About trans people
That was so offensive
I suppose he didn’t make
Any fat jokes, so in that way
Some people might be angry
And think he’s too progressive…
I think
The difference between
A TERF and a transphobe
Is the person you’re talking to
Why is it that
Jokes about trans people
Are mostly at the expense
Of trans women?
In this case,
It’s because Dave Chappelle
Has a problem with women.
Especially ones he isn’t
Trying to fuck– welcome to the club!
Being a socially ‘undesirable’ woman fucking sucks
Sometimes it feels like
Trans women are mostly appalled
With the contrast between their worth
And the way the world treats them.
If that isn’t a better description of womanhood,
I don’t know what is.
I didn’t enjoy some of the jokes, same way
I didn’t enjoy Clifford the big red…
Or the Jew joke in the first 20 minutes,
Or when he responded to his misogyny with
“I hate those damn bitches”
But I have to agree, with one thing he said
So much so that I don’t even care
If it costs me my head,
Nobody listens!
Nobody listens.
Empathy is a two way street and
Nobody cares to treat it that way, they want empathy
To be about something they have
That others don’t, something they provide
That others don’t, and honestly
Dave Chappelle isn’t going to take a step
Towards the middle, not even for
His dead friend. So why would
Anyone else be expected
To listen to this, and take it as anything more
Than one stand-up special, now being
Thrown to PEAK popularity
By the nonstop cancelling.
This grain of sand is now
Gritting and slowly turning the
Whole engine into ruin
I can’t believe
People want to cancel it, considering
How much each one of those jokes landed–
Any attempt to silence this show
Throws gas on the fire, let the man
Exit quietly, don’t shout fire in a theater
That crowded–
Ya’ll, we are in the minority
The audience was dying.
If a single critic screaming
“Transphobia” had considered the point
He was trying to make, they might have realized
Cancelling the thing is exactly the response
That makes the jokes land harder
For the folks who want nothing to do
With us, in any way shape or form.