I responded: “Poverty, global anti-trans antagonism.”) But somewhere in the continuing watching of Reptile I managed to work myself into a pretty good rage, not at Benicio Del Toro-probably because he’s older-but at his former-* NSYNC-member costar. (“List reasons for stress in your life,” an intake form for a doctor’s appointment asked recently. I had a similar thought- That’s what I get for watching a reality dating show-when a woman named Nancy on Love Is Blind asked her new fiancé how he would feel about terminating a pregnancy if the child was going to suffer from painful and debilitating medical conditions, and he responded that he would never abort his child-even if they were trans.īetter to think it’s my fault than to think about how the world so successfully erased trans people from participation and representation in public life for so long-and attempts to still-that this guy thinks this is a totally reasonable thing to say. The punchline is that gay men are so blindly desperate for dick that they want to get raped at gunpoint for it. Part of me blames myself: That’s what I get for watching a movie, I think, trying to make it somehow my fault that Benicio Del Toro tells a homophobic joke in Netflix’s boring Reptile.
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