Marcela (she/her)As the rest of the Internet, I applaud Afroman for sticking it to unaccountable racist cops. I am just a bit sore that trans people were made, once again, the butt of the joke in the process.
Look, I try not to judge people, but… Come on. Show any comedian a clip of that cop talking and that’s gonna be the joke. It’s not just that her voice is low, she literally talks like a dude.
His songs were blatantly trying to piss them off. Of course he would go for the obvious joke. He’s not the kind of rapper that writes about systemic injustice, he raps about pussy and weed. Like, that’s it.
Also, the part of the song that suggests she might be trans:
Man or a woman You really don’t know her (You really don’t know) I noticed her voice Is a Few octaves lower (Few octaves low) She’s not too ugly She’s not too fine, but she (She’s not too fine) Might whoop out somethin’ Somethin’ that’s bigger than mine
That’s a direct reference to his 2001 song Crazy Rap, more commonly known as Colt 45:
I met this lady in Hollywood She had green hair, but damn she looked good I took her to my house because she was fine But she whooped out a dick that was bigger than mine
Considering the homo/trans phobia in a lot of rap at that time, I’d basically consider that pro-trans. He even used the right pronouns!
Well known trope. All over 1990s comedy and what have you.
So this argument boils down to what? Was she really trans she would deserve to be mocked? Are we censoring ourselves with real trans people out of superficial courtesy but bash cisgender women for “looking” or “sounding” trans. Nothing problematic with that! /s
Considering the homo/trans phobia in a lot of rap at that time, I’d basically consider that pro-trans.
Questionable take. So would racist jokes, being “relatively better” than lynchings, be “pro-black for the time”? I don’t think so.