Yeah I wish Silence of the Lambs had a different antagonist. From what I’ve heard, the writers didn’t intend for the movie to be transphobic because “”Buffalo Bill isn’t actually a trans woman”” or w/e, but they fucked up anyway. Clearly they did not consult any trans women during the process, or if they did then they totally ignored what they said.

Love Hannibal Lecter though. As far as I’m concerned, that movie is about him and him alone. Were there any other serial killers in the movie? I don’t remember them. ~~further comments redacted for being too thirsty~~

Its wild to me that this exists. I've never seen Silence of the Lambs and made the apparently foolish guess that the serial killer that eats people would me the main badguy. Shame on me.

Buffalo Bill is like if someone made a version of planet of the apes were the humans and apes team up to defeat a new dangerous mutant ape that is literally just a black dude and liberals tripped over themselves to disvow this obviously black guy's race and call you a racist idiot for tainting black people with this monster's sins because "they did a dna test and he was 100% ape so shut the fuck up and let me have this racist loophole."

The director apologized when it was criticized for being transphobic and acknowledged it was and he genuinely didn't know better and it was the early 90s so chances are he didnt

There's whole ass youtube channels where the only thing they talk about is the transphobia that seemed to be manadatorily added to one or more episodes of every TV show series, ever.

I thought this was about the football team and got very confused

I popped into my lemmy.ml account the other day and saw three buffalo bill 'memes' almost immediately, one was about voting for Biden or getting trump again too, that was lovely

shoutout to the cistem

I recently lost a friend over her similar discourse around a trans woman in the persona games. And the way she talked about trans people at all if they had to do with Japan.

Didn’t look at the sub and clicked this expecting reactions to the Buffalo Bills playoff loss to Kansas City.

I was educating The Cis about this film on the anniversary of its stupid release. Was the valentines release date a joke?

Red Dragon has a better story and a better killer. But Michael Mann had already made the excellent film adaptation "Manhunter" so they had to go with the inferior sequel.

I watched silence of the lambs when I was in high-school and the moment I got to the scene where Buffalo Bill puts on the skin suit I was so inexplicably disturbed I immediately shut the movie off. Looking back now thay my egg has cracked, I feel like part of why I was so uncomfortable was my own inherent transness and how perverse that scene was designed to be.

Do you see?