also a million other characters, but i saw someone arguing silence of the lambs wasn't transphobic the other day so that's on my mind
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no one has argued we should beat the author to death, and in fact you were the one who started defending his honor. i don't know why you're acting like we tried to cancel him. the final product is incredibly transphobic regardless of intent and quibbling about whether the author is a transphobic piece of shit or not (he was! it was the 80s, lots of people were!) is ignoring the actual issue at hand, which is the material harm caused by the book and its adaptation
you started off by saying "oh in the original book the author said he wasn't trans", then acknowledged "now his character might still be detrimental to the perception of trans people," but still only say it MIGHT cause problems and follow it up by further defending the author. you then ignore everyone talking about how buffalo bill not being trans doesn't make it better and continue to defend the author despite the fact that you're the only one who cares about the author
regardless of your intent all you're doing is defending transphobia. just admit it's transphobic and move on! it's a 36 year old book, it doesn't matter! stop trying to defend it when that's exactly what the original post was about!!!!!!