Writing for the feminist website The Mary Sue, Vivian Kane warns about Ricky Gervais’s Netflix special:
I don’t think anything can prepare you for the level of violent bigotry Gervais put out. After just a few minutes, he starts on a tirade about trans women and rape. There’s a deep obsession with trans people’s genitals and he deliberately misgenders his hypothetical trans villains throughout.
After adding an “extreme content warning,” Kane then goes on to quote from the special — not something she would typically do for such offensive comments, she notes, but something she decided was necessary because “it needs to be made clear that there’s no way to overstate just how awful this is.”
Why does it “need to be made clear”? What’s her point, exactly?
I hate to state the obvious but if you find something to be intolerably offensive, there’s nothing stopping you from switching it off.