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austin powers says trans rights (i.redd.it)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is it tone deaf to think that a character representing the classic womanizer would be accepting of trans people?

Austin Powers is spoofing the on screen spy characters of the 60s, which attempted to appeal to a very much cis heterosexual fantasy, which generally would not include trans people.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I saw Austin powers as a kid and i always thought he was gay, apparently no amount of him hitting on women made me question it, it just the way he appeared to me.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

He is/was extremely camp. It's now strongly associated with being gay, but wasn't always. Austin Powers somehow managed to pull off macho-camp extremely well.