🐱 Private Eye Slammed For Featuring Dated Transphobic ‘Attack Helicopter’ Joke - Tbh it’s kinda funny

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Private Eye has caused controversy after teasing a front cover featuring a transphobic joke.

The image, which was posted to the satirical magazine’s Facebook account, showed a picture of Batman and Robin with the caption ‘Robin Comes Out.’

Speech bubbles on the image show Robin saying ‘Batman, I’m bisexual,’ with Batman replying ‘That’s nothing – one of our enemies identifies as a penguin.’

As well as being a reference to the comic book villain Penguin, it’s been pointed out that the ‘joke’ is a variation of the transphobic ‘attack helicopter’ meme, which mocks the idea of self-identification when it comes to one’s gender or sexuality.

Though Private Eye is known for its contrarian satire, many readers clearly see this latest image as unnecessarily offensive. The post has been widely shared and criticised on social media, with one person tweeting ‘nice to see private eye recycling the same attack helicopter joke.’

‘Lazy. Insensitive. Dismissive. Don’t print it,’ another person commented on Facebook.

Meanwhile, one reader suggested an alternative caption, which read:

‘Batman, I’m bisexual.’
‘Cool, Robin. One of our enemies identifies as a penguin. How fab it is that everyone can be their authentic selves these days.’
‘He’s still evil though, right?’
‘Yes, Robin. LGBTQI+ people can be superheroes, arch enemies, or anything in between – just like everybody else.’
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In recent years a growing number of ostensibly liberal publications in the UK have promoted ‘gender critical’ arguments, which supporters of trans rights argue fails to accept the basic idea that trans women are women, and seeks to deny trans people the agency to determine their own identity.

If you’ve been affected by any of these issues and want to speak to someone in confidence contact Mindline Trans+ on 0300 330 5468. The line is open 8pm–midnight Mondays and Fridays and is run by trans volunteers
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Meanwhile, one reader suggested an alternative caption, which read:

‘Batman, I’m bisexual.’
‘Cool, Robin. One of our enemies identifies as a penguin. How fab it is that everyone can be their authentic selves these days.’
‘He’s still evil though, right?’
‘Yes, Robin. LGBTQI+ people can be superheroes, arch enemies, or anything in between – just like everybody else.’
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Jesus fucking Christ, the left can't meme.

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In recent years a growing number of ostensibly liberal publications in the UK have promoted ‘gender critical’ arguments, which supporters of trans rights argue fails to accept the basic idea that trans women are women, and seeks to deny trans people the agency to determine their own identity.
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How is it a "basic idea" that a bunch of fringe lunatics be allowed to decide to re-define the words "men" and "women"?

Couldn't I equally say that they fail to accept the basic idea that trans women are NOT women?

Have they provided a single reasonable argument to support their position, that a "liberal publication" might be able to accept?
 
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When you have faggots unironically identifying as bunselves and unicornselves, this isn't really a stretch for satire.
 
The fucking support hotline :story:. If you need therapy after seeing a boomer facebook meme, you may as well just join the 41% right now.
 
Uncle Joey said:
The fucking support hotline :story:. If you need therapy after seeing a boomer facebook meme, you may as well just join the 41% right now.
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The line is open 8pm–midnight Mondays and Fridays and is run by trans volunteers
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It's like the opposite of a suicide hotline: this is the number you call when you want to talk people into killing themselves
 
Why is it that trannies, who are heckin valid and not all mentally ill in the least, are so very easily offended?
Not just when it comes to jokes at their expense, either.
I've found the overwhelming majority of them to be utterly humorless and joyless with hair-trigger, umbrageous personalities.
Almost like they have narcissistic personality disorder and just want the rest of the world miserable if they themselves can't be happy.
 
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‘Batman, I’m bisexual.’
‘Cool, Robin. One of our enemies identifies as a penguin. How fab it is that everyone can be their authentic selves these days.’
‘He’s still evil though, right?’
‘Yes, Robin. LGBTQI+ people can be superheroes, arch enemies, or anything in between – just like everybody else.’
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Where’s the actual punchline?
I don’t even just mean that in a “left can’t meme” dig. I want to know what the person who wrote this thinks the punchline is. Because I can only assume he thinks it’s “He’s still evil though, right?“ which is the only incongruous statement in the “joke”.
 
I identify as an attack helicopter line was never transphobic mostly because no one is afraid of trannies they are just disgusted by them. It was a poke at the left in general and their pushing of insane delusions as something that should be tolerated instead of corrected.
 
The attack helicopter joke was meant to make fun of the people who think they're wolfkin or saturngender or some shit, not specifically transgenders.
 
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Where’s the actual punchline?
I don’t even just mean that in a “left can’t meme” dig. I want to know what the person who wrote this thinks the punchline is. Because I can only assume he thinks it’s “He’s still evil though, right?“ which is the only incongruous statement in the “joke”.
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there is no punchline
it's not a joke
just political dogma

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The attack helicopter joke was meant to make fun of the people who think they're wolfkin or saturngender or some shit, not specifically transgenders.
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it makes fun of the whole idea that someone can "self-identify" as something he clearly isn't
whether it's otherkins or trannies doesn't really matter, the core idea is the same
 
Bland Crumbs said:
I identify as an attack helicopter line was never transphobic mostly because no one is afraid of trannies they are just disgusted by them. It was a poke at the left in general and their pushing of insane delusions as something that should be tolerated instead of corrected.
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It was about the otherkin menace, who continue to infiltrate lefty politics and weasel their way into legitimacy via that trojan horse that is LGBT politics.
 
Pixy said:
It was about the otherkin menace, who continue to infiltrate lefty politics and weasel their way into legitimacy via that trojan horse that is LGBT politics.
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DumbDude42 said:
it makes fun of the whole idea that someone can "self-identify" as something he clearly isn't
whether it's otherkins or trannies doesn't really matter, the core idea is the same
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When you think about it, the fact that it's actually a joke about otherkins makes it better.

Identifying as a helicopter is so retarded, people immediately assume it's a reference to transexuality
 
The reason people still use the attack helicopter joke is because of how mad it makes trannies and fags. I'd argue it makes them sperg more today than it did back in 2016.
 
That meme is literally as inoffensive as you can get when joking about trans people and they still freak out.

‘Batman, I’m bisexual.’
‘Cool, Robin. One of our enemies identifies as a penguin. How fab it is that everyone can be their authentic selves these days.’
‘He’s still evil though, right?’
‘Yes, Robin. LGBTQI+ people can be superheroes, arch enemies, or anything in between – just like everybody else.’
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Comedy is dead.
 
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