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Originally Posted by Keith
You're saying that Don made up the amnesia story and made up that his wife tricked him into thinking he was a different kind of person (which of course he did). I don't care what confusion he was going through, that makes him an asshole.
He has 3 children, but still the only excuse he can come up with was to put blame on the wife?
And then not take the blame back when he flip-flopped again?
Fuck him. She's a shithead. (I said 'she.' See how progressive I am?)
When I made jokes about Casey Kasem, I wasn't picking on all DJs. I was picking on Casey. When I make jokes about Don/Dawn, I'm not picking on all transgenders. I'm picking on this freak.
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Definitely agree with you on the asshole front. Throwing your wife under the bus because you're feeling shitty is no excuse.
I think the thing that got to me was more that there is already a fairly prevalent stereotype that transgender people are confused and flip-flop on their identity, to push a story like this reinforces that. Unlike racism or even sexual identity, people are so unfamiliar with trans* issues, that simple, singular stories like this do a lot more damage than other 'oh what a fucking idiot example of X' stories that are also on the show.