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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by labrador on Friday October 28, 2022 @01:52PM (#33374803)
It is not optional. I have to out myself as well. Any time I start getting in a serious relationship with someone I have to sit them down to have "the talk" about me being a recovering alcoholic and bipolar. It's usually a relationship killer.

Let's be honest, you have a better chance of finding love than I do. I've been single for 10 years.

Look, I don't want to fight. I just want to use humor to ease my pain. Humor is good for that. What's wrong with a joke about a trans woman?

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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by sascha_sl on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:30PM (#33375418)
Nothing is bad with jokes about trans people inherently.

But as I already said, these are meant to tease your disgust reflex more than provoke laughter.

I'd recommend looking up some trans comedians. Not that I think you need to be trans to make jokes about us, but it certainly seems to help go beyond the typical "X identifies as Y" one joke format that is so prevalent in conservative comedy and certainly the Babylon Bee that collecting permutations of it has its own subreddit.[1]

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/onejoke/

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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by labrador on Saturday October 29, 2022 @01:12PM (#33386013)
> I'd recommend looking up some trans comedians

Will do. That sounds interesting. Thanks for engaging and Godspeed.

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