‘Non- Binary’ Transgender Deacon ?

[VIDEODROME]

This film couldn't be published today because it would be considered transphobic

I guess people did try to argue that even when the film was released, but Bill was not really Transgender anymore than someone like Norman Bates.

 

[tod evans]

Right, that's what I'm asking. What is a "good Christian Methodist"? What is a Christian in your view?

Apologize.

 

[donnay]

Makes me wonder if Michael Moore is a trans fat.

ROFLMAO!!!

"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Dr.3D again."

 

[VIDEODROME]

There aren't any good Christians. We're all going to Hell.

 

[torchbearer]

I guess people did try to argue that even when the film was released, but Bill was not really Transgender anymore than someone like Norman Bates.

According to the script, Bill had applied for gender reassignment but was denied because he failed the psych eval. He was transgender but denied physical conversion. So he killed women to use their skin to make a woman suit for himself. his metamorphosis like the moths.

 

[VIDEODROME]

According to the script, Bill had applied for gender reassignment but was denied because he failed the psych eval. He was transgender but denied physical conversion. So he killed women to use their skin to make a woman suit for himself. his metamorphosis like the moths.

Well, I interpreted failing the evaluation as showing signs he wasn't necessarily transgender. Before this he was just homosexual with Raspail who he caught cheating with Klaus and skinned him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill_(character)

The film adaptation of Silence of the Lambs was criticized by some gay rights groups for its portrayal of the psychopathic Gumb as bisexual and transgender.[7] A Johns Hopkins sex-reassignment surgeon, present in the book but not the film (his scene was deleted and is found in bonus materials on the DVD), protests exactly the same thing. FBI Director Jack Crawford pacifies him by repeating that Gumb is not in fact transsexual, but merely believes himself to be. In the film, a similar scene is shown with Starling and Lecter in the same roles as the surgeon and Crawford, respectively. In the director's commentary for the 1991 film, director Jonathan Demme draws attention to various Polaroids taken of Buffalo Bill in the company of strippers; these are visible in Gumb's basement in the film.

 

[torchbearer]

Well, I interpreted failing the evaluation as showing signs he wasn't necessarily transgender. Before this he was just homosexual with Raspail who he caught cheating with Klaus and skinned him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill_(character)

Hannibal Lecter: Billy is not a real trans-sexual, but he thinks he is. He tries to be. He's tried to be a lot of things, I expect.
Clarice Starling: And you said that I was very close to the way we would catch him. What did you mean, doctor?
Hannibal Lecter: There are three major centers for trans-sexual surgery: Johns Hopkins, the University of Minnesota, and Columbus Medical Center. I wouldn't be surprised if Billy had applied for sex reassignment at one or all of them, and been rejected.
Clarice Starling: On what basis would they reject him?
Hannibal Lecter: Look for severe childhood disturbances associated with violence. Our Billy wasn't born a criminal, Clarice. He was made one through years of systematic abuse. Billy hates his own identity, you see, and he thinks that makes him a trans-sexual. But his pathology is a thousand times more savage and more terrifying.


I understand transgenderism as a dissociative disorder. You don't identify as what you physically are. So, they are implying he has a dissociative disorder, therefore he couldn't be transgender. To me that scripting doesn't make sense. It is the belief that you are something other than what you are that makes a person transgender. Otherwise, they'd just be a gender.

 

[torchbearer]

I could imagine his psych session:


Grumb: I feel like I'm really a woman.
Lector: No you don't. You just hate yourself.

That is what I'd tell a crazy person if I wanted them to go off the handle.