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so I’ve never seen Being John Malkovich, which means I didn’t learn until this very morning, via Jude S. Doyle’s excellent newsletter, that the titular experience makes Cameron Diaz’s character come out to himself as a trans man (cw: everything about 1990s trans representation in film)
https://doyles.substack.com/p/you-be-the-boy-heavenly-creatures
@AshBunny I mean, he doesn’t exactly get treated _decently_ or anything, but apparently yeah
@mxsparks Neither did the protagonist of the Danish Girl.
@mxsparks I rewatched this super recently, and for the first time the transness didn't sail over my head. It was.. an experience.
@mxsparks in the age of transphobic jokes? 0.0