A revelation about "A Town Called Mercy"
Sep. 17th, 2012 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
merryghoulIt just hit me that the joke about Susan the horse may be referring to "A Boy Named Sue."
The horse joke has been seen as transphobic by people on Tumblr. I believe the intent was not to be offensive. But once you put something out in the media, the death of the author rule applies. I think it's unfortunate the Who production staff didn't think that people would see the "A Boy Named Sue" reference (as it was phrased) could be seen as offensive to trans* people. I wish the reference was explained more or put in the episode in a different way.
sorry about the flood of posts today
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Date: 2012-09-21 07:33 pm (UTC)It references another post, which I haven't yet read.
FYI.
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Date: 2012-09-21 08:18 pm (UTC)