In just a few hours, the second installment of ‘Ricky Gervais: SuperNature’ has been released with controversy.
Ricky Gervais has done it again. The comedian has only had a few hours for the second installment of the Netflix special ‘Ricky Gervais: SuperNature’ to have already set the networks on fire (the adjective “coward” is the softest we can find) due to his repeated jokes of a transphobic nature.
In this way, four minutes into this special premiered this very Tuesday, the also director and screenwriter has called “old-fashioned” those women who have a uteruswhile acknowledging that he loves the new ones, those who “have a beard and a penis”to affirm within this monologue that this is precisely what doesn’t make them women. In addition, it has used the TERF conceptacronym for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” (Radical Trans-Exclusionary Feminist), a term widely spread on the internet and the subject of serious discussions on Twitter, mainly between trans women and cisgender women (those who identify with their biological gender) .
A few minutes later, and alluding to the rejection of Kevin Hart as presenter of the Oscars in 2018 for a series of tweets from the past in which he made fun of the LGTBIQ + collective, Gervais continued to joke about the trans community and followed up with a speech stating that the worst thing you can say today, in which to receive death threats and the cancellation of Twitter, is that: “women don’t have a penis”. He continues sarcastically indicating that it is impossible to find a tweet like this ten years ago because, directly, “we didn’t think we had to do it.”
During the final part of ‘Ricky Gervais: SuperNature’, the creator of the original ‘The Office’ It seems that it is going to clarify that it is only a planned joke: “In real life, of course, I support trans rights. I support all human rights, and trans rights are human rights. Live your best life. Use your preferred pronouns. Be the gender you feel you are.” Until it proves that of the correction does not go with him and that he is a born provocateur, ending with “but don’t stop halfway, ladies: put your dick down. That’s all I’m saying.”
In the past weekOwn gervais took the opportunity to promote his special on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ in which, in addition to explaining the reason for the title “SuperNature” (created with the intention of discrediting the “supernatural” and escaping from the concept of “angels and unicorns”) , praised smart people who know how to deal with irony.
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