In the movie they even say "he's not transexual" which makes me roll my eyes.
Hannibal Lector on diagnosing him says "he's not transexual, but he thinks he is"
Because they were being politically correct back then.
I'm like yeah, Mr lector.....that's the definition of 100% of all the "transexuals". They all think they are because it's a delusion.
But the movie framed it as though there's legitime ones and illegitimate ones because they didn't want the serial killer to "portray a negative stereotype mmmmkay".
No, they're all illegitimate and buffalo bill is no more or no less than any so called "real transexuals".
For an unapologetic cannibal genius, he sure makes the effort to toe the moronic politically correct line on "sensitive issues like the legitimacy of "trans-ness" in that movie.
What a progressive forward thinker that cannibal is.
EDIT: Interesting parallel with the modern day. So Chris Chan wanted to be "Christine Chandler" and as long as he was just a "lolcow" the Internet used his "preferred pronouns".
Then when he molested his mother, the Internet started debating if he was really trans. Reddit was tied up in knots on whether "misgendering" him was worse or the act he did was worse.
Many landed on "hes not a real transgender....he only did it to try to get a lesbian girl, so we'll call him Chris Chan because what he did makes "trans" look bad.
Interesting how before he did that to his mother he magically was one and you'd be banned if you "dead named him" to suddenly one act makes his legitimacy up for debate.
To this date when people talk about Chris Chan you will have some call him Chris but clarify that they support people's gender identities but Chris isn't a true transgender, and other camps that still call him Christine and she.
AI will even call Chris "Christine" when you explicitly say Chris Chan, so AI falls on the "respecting her identity" side of that schism whereas there was no schism with lefties until he did something that heinous that made them start sweating about which is optically worse.
Pretty close modern day analogue to the Buffalo Bill diagnosis from the film.
Legitimate if you don't make it look too bad, illegitimate if it makes it look bad
In the movie they even say "he's not transexual" which makes me roll my eyes.
Hannibal Lector on diagnosing him says "he's not transexual, but he thinks he is"
Because they were being politically correct back then.
I'm like yeah, Mr lector.....that's the definition of 100% of all the "transexuals". They all think they are because it's a delusion.
But the movie framed it as though there's legitime ones and illegitimate ones because they didn't want the serial killer to "portray a negative stereotype mmmmkay".
No, they're all illegitimate and buffalo bill is no more or no less than any so called "real transexuals".
For an unapologetic cannibal genius, he sure makes the effort to toe the moronic politically correct line on "sensitive issues like the legitimacy of "trans-ness" in that movie.
What a progressive forward thinker that cannibal is.