The comments eventually prompted a response from Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos, who sent an email to employees on Friday, October 8th. Per The Verge, after the special’s release, employees began using Netflix’s open Q&A document to raise questions about how the company plans to navigate the line between commentary and transphobia. You’re all the best, especially when things are difficult.”įield also appears to be just one voice of an internal uproar at Netflix over The Closer. It is an argument with trans people who want to be alive and people who don’t want us to be.”įield did not return a request for comment, although, on Monday, October 11th, she tweeted, “I just want to say I appreciate everyone’s support. Promoting TERF ideology (which is what we did by giving it a platform yesterday) directly harms trans people, it is not some neutral act. I’m a white woman, I get to worry about Starbucks writing ‘Tara’ on my drink. “People who look like me aren’t being killed. She continued: “What we object to is the harm that content like this does to the trans community (especially trans people of color) and VERY specifically Black trans women,” Field said.
You try going to a pharmacy and having them call you "sir" in front of everyone while you pick up your estradiol. We aren't complaining about "being offended" and we don't have "thin skin". The problem is that people are responding to something we never said. “We aren’t complaining about ‘being offended’ and we don’t have ‘thin skin.’ You try going to a pharmacy and having them call you ‘sir’ in front of everyone while you pick up your estradiol.
In her thread, Field specifically pushed back on the notion that any objection to jokes like Chappelle’s were just people being “offended” or having “thin skin.” “The problem is that people are responding to something we never said,” Field said. Last week, Field shared a Twitter thread that criticized Chappelle for attacking “the trans community, and the very validity of transness - all while trying to pit us against other marginalized groups.” Chappelle has come under fire for jokes about trans people in previous Netflix specials his material about trans people in The Closer included an ostensible joke comparing trans peoples’ genitals to plant-based meat substitutes, and another where he proclaimed himself a TERF (a trans-exclusionary radical feminist).
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