Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

It's kind of bugged me for a while how relatively under the radar South Park is about being criticized for transphobia compared to JK Rowling, Cyberpunk, Dave Chappelle, and some of the other highly spotlighted sources of influential transphobia. I think they're genuinely just as bad, maybe worse in some ways. Who knows how much damage they've done influencing a generation of younger people. I'm not quite sure why they get a pass.

Feels like they were probably a big part of how transphobia started to move from a religious argument to the more rational based "lol it's just science" junk, which has been incredibly dangerous since it's so popular amongst younger people.

I'd say they're even worse than the others you listed, because they started with it before anyone else. That Mrs. Garrison episode aired in 2005.

[MRS GARRISON EPISODE AIRS IN 2005]
*a decade plus passes*
[TRANS POPULATION BEGINS EXPONENTIAL EXPLOSION]
*people begin noticing it's not remotely science*

TREY AND MATT CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT