What I find disappointing is that this was a lost opportunity. Letterman could have called out the guy *and* the audience for their reactions, but he chose to laugh it off.
i think the subtext is is @ having had sex with her, not knowing that 'she' used to be a 'he'. emphasis on 'having had sex with ' & 'not knowing about..' << context.
Burn in hell bigots!!! All you little insecure fucktards need to get your empty heads out of your ass and grow up!!
Really if you feel the need to belittle other people simply because they are different, only shows your ignorance and lack of class... Seriously even if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you have no right to take it upon yourself to torment them!
This whole fucking country has become so fucking overly sensitive about every fucking things it pathetic. Transgender people are just fucking rediculious, nature didnt screw you up and give you the wrong body, you are just fucked in the head. People need to take a joke now and then. Political correctness has taken over right to free speech. Fucking americans.
huiessen obama has the body of an anorexic 12 year old girl, his nigger wife looks like a ape drag queen and his nigger kids look like little monkey boys. they are all transgendered
@bwonderve Maybe in another context I might agree, but this kind of social "humor" is always at the trans communities expense . The men making the joke are probably unaware that such reactions are usually used to justify attacking/killing us everyday.
It's a pretty lame joke to begin with. Yes I think its insulting. It does ridicule transgendered women and homosexuals. Prejudice issues aside is it funny? Does as it work as humour? Letterman and his lacky audience think so. But not everyone catches the joke. Just another put down from an ignorant asshole who finds humiliation funny.
As much as I LOVE Letterman and Kalter, I was thrilled to see someone getting called on saying hateful inappropriate things about a trnas person.
I mean you wouldn't get away with talking that way about a gay person for years but people get away with saying ANYTHING about trans people, I'm glad we might be on the verge of changing!
If I were Dave, I wouldn't apologize over this. If you can look at this, and honestly believe that David Letterman deliberately set out to insult transgender people (and for what motive?) then the problem doesn't lie with him. To me it seemed clear that the joke didn't have anything to do with Mrs. Simpson herself, but in having the kind of line you'd hear in a dumass college movie said in Alan Kalter's announcer voice.
Are all Americans stupid ? or is it just the ones on the TV shows.Of course,they invented CANNED laughter.Should be made to eat it that would solve there obesity problem.
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I guess I've never felt comfortable in my own skin, like something was always missing.I was born with urges that can best be described as bear-like but mixed with the longings of a sow.That's why over the past few months I have participated in a radical new procedure to attach a bear's arms to my torso and a pig's ass to my backside.Now,I feel myself and those like me MUST be recognized by the LGBTHD community.Anyone who jokes or even giggles about this is WRONG and guilty of manbearpigophobia!
It is poor taste for David Yatterman to continue his jibes concerning Sarah Palin. Sarah's contribution is much more worthy than D's mostly slanderous way with words.
PS How many people hold up applause cards ? ! Walter Badge ...Australia
I wonder what the impact would have been if that old fart, Letterman, made a crack at the Gay Community's expense? And as for that idiot running out of the studio - (wearing a bad wig) - I think the joke is on them, not Amanda Simpson.
Depicting people reacting in horror to transgender individuals is a dangerous stereotype for popular media to perpetuate because it contributes to the societal conception of transgender people as abnormal and deceptive, which all-too-often results in anti-transgender violence and/or discrimination when played out in reality.
That said, it was still kinda funny, especially because it came out of nowhere from the announcer.
@pantsbutt3000 For a "genderqueer person" you seem to have a very limited awareness of how such humor can affect social attitudes , and legitimize violence ...But just scratch out the facts because .... you know....its just a joke.
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@bwonderve Most men would not even look at him if they knew he were male. Straight men do not do that & are offended by someone decieving them into even looking at a male in such a way! That is what is offensive to straight people. Just because that is your world does not mean that you can inflict it upon the majority! He does not look female & there are more in the media & WHO you can tell they are male. Most people do not think this way so they do not assume they are male & become upset.
Quoted for truth: "Would Letterman make fun of someone for being the first African American or Latino presidential appointee? I don't think so. But because the transgender community is one of the most marginalized in this society, he obviously feels he can get away with insulting a transgendered woman"
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Amanda is a dude. Cutting it off, buying boobs & taking fake hormones does not make you female! Just a man who has bucthered himself! HE IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE A HE! Do not blame females for that! You may want to be a woman but you are NOT! Does not look feminine or pretty! FAKE hormones and parts 0 not real!
I dunno i'm gay and i find this funny. I think Letterman was trying to make fun of people who have freak out over gayness (or transness) than make fun of trans people themselves. I think the LBGT community is taking this way too seriously. We rightly attacked "that's so gay" but there must be a limit to attacking every joke. Making a big deal about this could be compared to that whole campaign to boycott Avatar because it has no trans or flaming gay people in the future. wtf ppl, just chill
Thats the whole problem with many within the gay community, you only give a fuck about things that affect yourselves . I get the joke ,and I see where your coming from , but there's a whole context to this that Letterman and people like yourself fail to see, which is that such attitudes are usually linked to violence and murder against trans people everyday. Also the gay rights political movement is 20/30 years ahead of ours...
it's not funny because how would you like it if so many people were immature and don't understand stuff and you're marginalized, the ignorant "jokes" like this, and the whole "omg" factor get old very quickly.
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This is like that Ace Ventura: Pet Detective joke, "Einhorn is a MAN???" and then you see Jim Carrey going ape shit while cleaning his mouth. This wasn't a hate joke, people. Quit getting easily offended over jokes that aren't family-friendly and safe for church, like Leno has been doing.
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@CrackerJackLee - you reply to questions almost as good as an Irishman. I appreciate that. And I have to add, that one irishman can kick the ass of 10 TransAmericans in a fair fight.
Don't be idiot. Transsexualism has nothing to do with nationality. Whatever your nationality is, there is handful amount of transsexuals, thank the nature you were born not one of them. Transsexualism isn't the choice
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no... it all started when an influx of irishmen from county kildare entered america and tried to mate with the texas longhorn bulls... since then, it's been nothing but havoc and mayhem as the transgendered descendents try to ween themselves from pissy american beer and revert to licking the horse piss from the cowboys' boots...
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no that's not it... he really did sleep with her... and that's only the half of it... they had a quickie marriage in mexico and he is now the worser half of a same sex marriage... (not that there's anything wrong with that...)
Princess is right: "Would Letterman make fun of someone for being the first African American or Latino presidential appointee? I don't think so. But because the transgender community is one of the most marginalized in this society, he obviously feels he can get away with insulting a transgendered woman in a skit that is only 'funny' to those who share his obvious transgenderphobia."
I think the humor was supposed to be on how that guy was freaking out, not that Amanda was born with a male body.
People are born male or female, but man or woman are titles you have to work for. There are plenty of males and females out there who don't deserve the title of man or woman. And there are many out there who do.
Congrats Amanda! You earned your title of woman! And I can't wait until I earn mine! <3 Vanessa
@luke666808g _Oh fo fuck yourself, you KKK idiot! What does having gender dysphoria have to do with being in the government? Trans women are merely women who were born in the wrong body. Like that has anything to do with being in the government.
@GretaOfSpringwood trans women are men born in male bodies, who decided to get their genitals chopped up and turned inside out like some kind of Frankenstein shit.
@luke666808g@luke666808g Oh you stupid ignorant sad shit! You know NOTHING about this! in the 1st place NOTHING is chopped off. God you are so fucking ignorant! Yeah a baby can be born with all kinds of birth defects but the idea of a baby being born with a male body and a female brain is TOTALLY out of the question. All I can say is you are just ignorant, uneducated trash.
@luke666808g And you know what if we DO decide to do it by choice SO WHAT? If a male would be HAPPIER was a woman and be a productive member of society what is the problem? what does it have to do with YOU? You homophobic fuck!
@GretaOfSpringwood it has to do with me because I'm a tax payer, if you let trannies into the government they'll start giving out free tax payer funded sex changes in the name of liberalism.
@luke666808g They should, it's a medical condition. In Iraq the government DOES fund sex changes. And it has nothing to do with liberalism. Trans people are as diverse as non-trans people. I'm a trans woman and I am a moderate, extreme liberals get on my nerves as well as extreme conservatives. There are MANY conservative trans people too.
@GretaOfSpringwood Bullshit it's a medical condition, that just sounds fuckin silly to me, tax funding I mean, actually it sounds like the bullshittest government spending I've ever heard of, no wonder Iraq needs America to stick around, they're blowing their defense budget on sex changes, what a stupid idea.
@GretaOfSpringwood Well I live in Australia, we have free HC here, we don't however have free cosmetic surgery, you're expected to pay for that out of your own pocket, which seems reasonable to me.
@luke666808g But its o.k to pay for other medical treatment ? What is the reasoning behind your opinion, and what personal experience do you have with trans people ?
@LSGanon , B/c trans people should be respected as their INWARD gender, it's offensive to say, Ah she used to be a DUDE! As much as I love Alan and Dave, they as well s most of us could leanr some trans etiquette.
That was funny. lol. Those ppl are disturbed and STUPID. SICK!! They have some nerve defying God with this sickness. The consequences are going to be dire for that.
Ms. Simpson is a three-decade veteran of the industry she is now going to be regulating. She has a list of credentials as long as your arm. This joke was worse than offensive, it wasn't funny.
3 degrees (2 science, 1 business); Board Member of multiple LGBT Activist Orgs; State ACLU; Ran for US Congress unopposed in Democratic Primary and lost the Gen. Well educated, very experienced, VERY well connected.
Her post is only an advisory position. No authority. Low profile.
Obama gained political capital with LGBT groups; risked little to nothing. Great strategy by Obama.
I wonder, did she get the post in spite or because of her TG? Politics is funny that way.
Funny, I'd say the same thing if I slept with David Letterman and didn't know it was him ...... "THAT WAS DAVID LETTERMAN I SLEPT WITH?? ...... OH MY GOD!! yeccccch......."
Dave just keeps digging himself in deeper and deeper, don't he? I used to like him. Now.....not so much.
If you used to be a dude, and you wanna date a straight man, you better tell him as soon as he shows any interest. He can then make an informed decision as to whether he wants to pursue you romantically. And he's not entitled to be a jerk about it. But... if you hide that fact, because in your mind "it shouldn't matter", then you deserve every insult he throws at you later. Because you may thing he's a bigot, but to his eyes you are a lying sack of shite. And you're both right.
This is an insult, because it reinforces the notion that "ITS OK" to react with outrage, anger and shock when someone is discovered being Transgendered. Well, its NOT OK. The fact is, there are Transgendered people everywhere - and they may be your father, mother, pastor or boss at work. You never know. MANY MANY MANY people never live openly about who they are - many never even cross dress - instead they live with fear, shame and pain and hide it to protect others.
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omfg, the joke clearly implies that he had known Amanda in a "biblical" sense but that he didn't know that she used to be a man. I think a reasonable person wouldn't be upset with that reaction given that situation.
From HRC: You may not be aware that the punch line in your skit has been used as a defense in nearly every hate crime perpetrated against transgender people that has come to trial. For example, the trans panic defense was infamously used by Allen Ray Andrade, who was convicted in 2009 of beating 19-year-old Angie Zapata to death with a fire extinguisher after learning of her gender history.
Didn't find this funny. Dave wouldn't make descriminating racial jokes about Obama. What makes descrinating sexual jokes about an appointed offical funny. Some of the previous comments here are moronic.
People/society have become so thin-skinned that anything - insult or not - offends. Very sad. BTW, this skit appears to make fun of "transphobia" as many have stated below...
I honestly didn't find this really offensive because it seemed more like he was making fun of transphobia more than anything else. Still wasn't that funny though, so I guess it did fail as a joke.
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That was a funny joke satire whatever but it was funny. I laughed and I dont hate transgenders or gay people, and I respect them, but if they want us to treat them like regular people and respect them they shouldn't be treated in a special way like if they were of some rare kind and should not be subjects of jokes at all like everyone else
No one is asking for special privliages - JUST DIGNITY. Just becasue it is aloud to be said, doesn't make it right. No one is asking for a law to be passed - just for an apology for a comment that dehumanizes a minority. You would not understand the fear that one lives with day to day from people who would do you harm - not only to you, but your family, work and others in your life. Its is NOT ok to marginalize a minority as freaks or people that should be seen or met with outrage.
@petnogakatten Well said, My cous in trans and I've seen fist hand the shit she's gone through, if people ever had this hit close to home with someone they love, they wouldn't say such hateful things.
Where did i loose you? a gay male gets a sex change essentially turning him into a female, right? if another gay male is attracted to a female, is he gay? Obviously no. then why else would a gay male get a sex change if not to attract a strait male by deception?
Males that are attracted to men are homosexual. They have a sexual preferance NOT a gender varaince. Men that change their sex have a GENDER IDENTITY ISSUE, not a sexual preferance issue.
People have a "Gender ReAssignment Surgery" do NOT do so because of their sexual preferances. They do it to aalign their MIND with their BODY.
The AMA backs this proceedure as the recommended care for anyone diagnosed with "Gender Identity Dysphoria". It has NOTHING to do with ones sexual perferance.
So what's the sexual preference of those that have a gender identity Issue? do they abstain or do they deceive (if that's possible long term) or is their partners bisexual?
Since 1980 it's become about 50/50 on the preference issue although I expect that to lean heavier towards "preference for females" in the future.
Dating is difficult before the surgery for those of us who self-identify as "straight" for obvious reasons. Honestly, it doesn't get much better after surgery for the very reason this video shows.
Most of us just want to blend and have "normal" lives. Unlike the aggro-activist harpies, we don't really want to advertise our "medical condition". The odds are most of us aren't going to disclose on a first date but there does come a time when something HAS to be said if one has any ethics. The guys who stick around may do it because they genuinely see us as truly female or they may actually be bi. They almost always self-identify as "straight", though.
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I have 2 friends that are gay & I honestly don't have a problem with it because they are obviously females in a males body. everything about their persona is female. but I often wondered about the people that got sex changes, it didn't make sense to me considering who they were trying to attract.
i've got no clue what a aggro-activist harpie is.
just a couple of questions though, to be politically correct is sex change an acceptable term? & do I address a man that had one as a man or a woman?
"Agro-activist harpie" is a pet pejorative of mine. There are TS/TG people for whom TS/TG identity seems very important, almost central, to their "sense of self". As such they become activists and join LGBT-Rights groups and tend to get VERY aggressive when people don't kiss their butts. (you can see a lot of that in this list) I use the pejorative because I abhor what they do. IMO, incessant b*tching does far more harm than good among the general population. Harpie is from mythology.
LOL, I'll never remember all that, i can barely remember my name until I had my second cup of coffee so how hard will I be slapped if i just say sex change?
I knew there were cross dressers, again excuse me if I'm not up on the terminology I'm not trying to be offensive, but how does that work (literally). you can chop down a tree to get a stump but you can't put the tree back on the stump & expect it to grow (again literally)
LOL. It's not something I've looked into recently, not affecting me personally and all. I did read something about skin grafts and implants about ten years ago. I don't think most of guys opt for surgery because it doesn't really work all that well.
Boo! Hiss!
Madcapredcap 3 days ago
What I find disappointing is that this was a lost opportunity. Letterman could have called out the guy *and* the audience for their reactions, but he chose to laugh it off.
Jerk.
Madcapredcap 3 days ago
i think the subtext is is @ having had sex with her, not knowing that 'she' used to be a 'he'. emphasis on 'having had sex with ' & 'not knowing about..' << context.
jsinggih 1 month ago
people will laugh at all sorts of inappropriate jokes- but the minute it comes to them they cant handle it and say its offensive
how bout fuck you you cocksuckers
its a man in a fucking dress, sorry if some people find that a bit funny
JaCkMiChEaLs0n 1 month ago
its a joke- if you dont like it dont watch it
hypersensitive fucking morons
JaCkMiChEaLs0n 1 month ago
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Letterman is an asshole ! And the shows writers are too!
Ivonne5xx 3 months ago
Letterman isn asshole ! And the shows writers are too!
Ivonne5xx 3 months ago
Burn in hell bigots!!! All you little insecure fucktards need to get your empty heads out of your ass and grow up!!
Really if you feel the need to belittle other people simply because they are different, only shows your ignorance and lack of class... Seriously even if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you have no right to take it upon yourself to torment them!
dudeofstuff1 10 months ago
@dudeofstuff1 hey it was a joke you oversensitive fucking faggot
JaCkMiChEaLs0n 1 month ago
This whole fucking country has become so fucking overly sensitive about every fucking things it pathetic. Transgender people are just fucking rediculious, nature didnt screw you up and give you the wrong body, you are just fucked in the head. People need to take a joke now and then. Political correctness has taken over right to free speech. Fucking americans.
metathus 10 months ago
It's just a joke people (btw, I am trans as well).
jcac1023 1 year ago
It was a cheap shot. I don't even think it was funny. Dave is way up there on the assholeometer.
boilerplate7 1 year ago
huiessen obama has the body of an anorexic 12 year old girl, his nigger wife looks like a ape drag queen and his nigger kids look like little monkey boys. they are all transgendered
cmiller8789 1 year ago
@cmiller8789
rofl. now THAT's a sentence. i wish i could favorite this comment, you ridiculous ridiculous person.
mushroomonthemoon 10 months ago
LOL lighten the fuck up.
IM OFFENDED!!!!!!! is kind of overplayed these days.
she's a dude who feels more comfortable as a woman. and everyone gets joked about so stop being OUTRAGED!!!!!! about a joke.
romanpr1nce 1 year ago
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!! finally someone said something!!
SueJungle 1 year ago
David is truly disgraceful
7stg 1 year ago
@bwonderve Maybe in another context I might agree, but this kind of social "humor" is always at the trans communities expense . The men making the joke are probably unaware that such reactions are usually used to justify attacking/killing us everyday.
Its a shame your as ignorant as them.
blackflower75 1 year ago
It's a pretty lame joke to begin with. Yes I think its insulting. It does ridicule transgendered women and homosexuals. Prejudice issues aside is it funny? Does as it work as humour? Letterman and his lacky audience think so. But not everyone catches the joke. Just another put down from an ignorant asshole who finds humiliation funny.
melindaTG 1 year ago
As much as I LOVE Letterman and Kalter, I was thrilled to see someone getting called on saying hateful inappropriate things about a trnas person.
I mean you wouldn't get away with talking that way about a gay person for years but people get away with saying ANYTHING about trans people, I'm glad we might be on the verge of changing!
GretaOfSpringwood 1 year ago
"David Letterman Skit Insults Transgender Obama Appointee"
No, it doesn't.
If I were Dave, I wouldn't apologize over this. If you can look at this, and honestly believe that David Letterman deliberately set out to insult transgender people (and for what motive?) then the problem doesn't lie with him. To me it seemed clear that the joke didn't have anything to do with Mrs. Simpson herself, but in having the kind of line you'd hear in a dumass college movie said in Alan Kalter's announcer voice.
AlexReynard 1 year ago
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I'm insulted Obama appointed a She-Male circus freak to a public office.
papercaster 2 years ago
Are all Americans stupid ? or is it just the ones on the TV shows.Of course,they invented CANNED laughter.Should be made to eat it that would solve there obesity problem.
jennyomalley 2 years ago
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That thing is a freak show with a mental illness.
rob32909 2 years ago
@rob32909 Don't be so hard on yourself.
blackflower75 1 year ago
he didnt really insult her...
TIPPERBLK 2 years ago
David Letterman sucks. I'd bang that girl all night long.
Eriefire 2 years ago
both of those statements are wrong
northberlin 2 years ago
@borpee
Says the waste of sperm who supports the Westboro Baptist Church.
Better the world and kill yourself. You make life hard for everyone, and produce nothing of value.
Eriefire 2 years ago
that makes you no better than him you know
33JD 2 years ago
Not saying I am. We're all on a rock in the middle of nowhere. None of us matter in the broad scheme of the universe.
But yet he still chooses to hate others, and make their life hard. For what?
Eriefire 2 years ago
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Haha, that was awesome!
romanov77 2 years ago
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Funny stuff.
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auxo81 2 years ago
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I guess I've never felt comfortable in my own skin, like something was always missing.I was born with urges that can best be described as bear-like but mixed with the longings of a sow.That's why over the past few months I have participated in a radical new procedure to attach a bear's arms to my torso and a pig's ass to my backside.Now,I feel myself and those like me MUST be recognized by the LGBTHD community.Anyone who jokes or even giggles about this is WRONG and guilty of manbearpigophobia!
kennyhotz5 2 years ago
The reason it's offensive is because that same "shock" is usually the excuse given as to why a transgendered person is murdered.
Don't be so fucking insensitive.
BonsaiBlog 2 years ago 18
@BonsaiBlog : THIS IS FUNNY
knowatimean 1 year ago
@kennyhotz5 Nah... Your just ignorant , and part of the problem.
blackflower75 1 year ago
It is poor taste for David Yatterman to continue his jibes concerning Sarah Palin. Sarah's contribution is much more worthy than D's mostly slanderous way with words.
PS How many people hold up applause cards ? ! Walter Badge ...Australia
WalterBaj321 2 years ago
Dude, don't insult Yatterman by connecting it to this piece of trash. That movie was awesome.
amanomakoto 2 years ago
I think we can all safely conclude that David Letterman is about as funny as terminal cancer. I'm surprised the network even retains this jerk.
IntellectualAmy 2 years ago 5
I wonder what the impact would have been if that old fart, Letterman, made a crack at the Gay Community's expense? And as for that idiot running out of the studio - (wearing a bad wig) - I think the joke is on them, not Amanda Simpson.
IntellectualAmy 2 years ago
Depicting people reacting in horror to transgender individuals is a dangerous stereotype for popular media to perpetuate because it contributes to the societal conception of transgender people as abnormal and deceptive, which all-too-often results in anti-transgender violence and/or discrimination when played out in reality.
That said, it was still kinda funny, especially because it came out of nowhere from the announcer.
jdfohs 2 years ago
I'm a genderqueer person and I thought it was actually pretty funny. It's a good parody, I think... made me giggle
pantsbutt3000 2 years ago
@pantsbutt3000 For a "genderqueer person" you seem to have a very limited awareness of how such humor can affect social attitudes , and legitimize violence ...But just scratch out the facts because .... you know....its just a joke.
blackflower75 1 year ago
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@bwonderve Most men would not even look at him if they knew he were male. Straight men do not do that & are offended by someone decieving them into even looking at a male in such a way! That is what is offensive to straight people. Just because that is your world does not mean that you can inflict it upon the majority! He does not look female & there are more in the media & WHO you can tell they are male. Most people do not think this way so they do not assume they are male & become upset.
SPLENOROUS 2 years ago
Quoted for truth: "Would Letterman make fun of someone for being the first African American or Latino presidential appointee? I don't think so. But because the transgender community is one of the most marginalized in this society, he obviously feels he can get away with insulting a transgendered woman"
superstition2 2 years ago 4
@superstition2 Right on.
jumpup 2 years ago
@superstition2 So true.
blackflower75 1 year ago
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Appropriate name for "her" though - Amanda
A-MAN-DUH!
Sorry.
easyman182 2 years ago
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Amanda is a dude. Cutting it off, buying boobs & taking fake hormones does not make you female! Just a man who has bucthered himself! HE IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE A HE! Do not blame females for that! You may want to be a woman but you are NOT! Does not look feminine or pretty! FAKE hormones and parts 0 not real!
SPLENOROUS 2 years ago
Well she is a very attractive lady. She could get around the block quite easily if she wanted to.
CanadianQueer 2 years ago
I dunno i'm gay and i find this funny. I think Letterman was trying to make fun of people who have freak out over gayness (or transness) than make fun of trans people themselves. I think the LBGT community is taking this way too seriously. We rightly attacked "that's so gay" but there must be a limit to attacking every joke. Making a big deal about this could be compared to that whole campaign to boycott Avatar because it has no trans or flaming gay people in the future. wtf ppl, just chill
CheeseTrix13337 2 years ago
@CheeseTrix13337 "We rightly attacked "that's so gay" ....
Thats the whole problem with many within the gay community, you only give a fuck about things that affect yourselves . I get the joke ,and I see where your coming from , but there's a whole context to this that Letterman and people like yourself fail to see, which is that such attitudes are usually linked to violence and murder against trans people everyday. Also the gay rights political movement is 20/30 years ahead of ours...
blackflower75 1 year ago
it's not funny because how would you like it if so many people were immature and don't understand stuff and you're marginalized, the ignorant "jokes" like this, and the whole "omg" factor get old very quickly.
devaloki 2 years ago 4
"har har har" fuck you david letterman!
devaloki 2 years ago 7
Trannie jokes are dead. But then, Letterman is old media, so he probably thinks it's funny.
ilnaras 2 years ago 4
I for one am a trans woman and I found it to be very offensive. I didn't see the humor in it
mistyw49686 2 years ago 2
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This is like that Ace Ventura: Pet Detective joke, "Einhorn is a MAN???" and then you see Jim Carrey going ape shit while cleaning his mouth. This wasn't a hate joke, people. Quit getting easily offended over jokes that aren't family-friendly and safe for church, like Leno has been doing.
EvanConover 2 years ago
Letterman is sad :( Anyone who would diss someone who is that vulnerable isnt funny
JoeyBoya 2 years ago 2
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Shut up. The only people who are offended are probably fags.
arefvrgfd 2 years ago
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Gay man here, thought it was pretty funny actually. AREFVRGFD, you ought to just shut the hell up, you dont know anything.
airmanma 2 years ago
@airmanma How dose being gay make you some kind of judge of what is offensive to trans people (unless your a gay transman that is) ...?
blackflower75 1 year ago
How is letterman still employed? He hasn't been funny in 15 years
mjharden0223 2 years ago 4
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Letterman makes 30 million dollars a year, and millions of people watch him who think he is very funny. How many people watch you?
ElectraAlan 2 years ago
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@CrackerJackLee - you reply to questions almost as good as an Irishman. I appreciate that. And I have to add, that one irishman can kick the ass of 10 TransAmericans in a fair fight.
quickquestionyyy 2 years ago
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It was funny, very funny. Don't see what all the fuss is about.
oldtownkid 2 years ago
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Amanda used to be a dude. You Americans seem very confused about your gender. Was there a lot of inbreeding in American that caused this?
quickquestionyyy 2 years ago
Don't be idiot. Transsexualism has nothing to do with nationality. Whatever your nationality is, there is handful amount of transsexuals, thank the nature you were born not one of them. Transsexualism isn't the choice
analogfantasy 2 years ago 3
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no... it all started when an influx of irishmen from county kildare entered america and tried to mate with the texas longhorn bulls... since then, it's been nothing but havoc and mayhem as the transgendered descendents try to ween themselves from pissy american beer and revert to licking the horse piss from the cowboys' boots...
CrackerJackLee 2 years ago
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The joke was that you were to think that he had slept with a tranny without her telling him about it and he was not freaked out.
Stupid people don't get humor and are offended by it.
membear 2 years ago
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no that's not it... he really did sleep with her... and that's only the half of it... they had a quickie marriage in mexico and he is now the worser half of a same sex marriage... (not that there's anything wrong with that...)
CrackerJackLee 2 years ago
Princess is right: "Would Letterman make fun of someone for being the first African American or Latino presidential appointee? I don't think so. But because the transgender community is one of the most marginalized in this society, he obviously feels he can get away with insulting a transgendered woman in a skit that is only 'funny' to those who share his obvious transgenderphobia."
superstition2 2 years ago 11
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no;it's funny to anyone with a sense of humor.
mrbriscoe2001 2 years ago
@mrbriscoe2001 Well then maybe jokes about black people are funny too!
GretaOfSpringwood 1 year ago
I think that Letterman must die. Just I think
pxdrxxx 2 years ago
I think the humor was supposed to be on how that guy was freaking out, not that Amanda was born with a male body.
People are born male or female, but man or woman are titles you have to work for. There are plenty of males and females out there who don't deserve the title of man or woman. And there are many out there who do.
Congrats Amanda! You earned your title of woman! And I can't wait until I earn mine! <3 Vanessa
VanessaVictory 2 years ago
a-man-da?
CrackerJackLee 2 years ago
@CrackerJackLee lol yeah.....Amanda is quite an odd and unfortunate choice for a name for a transgendered woman.
janderson2000 1 year ago
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CyndiTork 2 years ago
You can tell Letterman has twenty-something douche writers on staff. Time to grow up boys.
ttmfg 2 years ago 7
This is a dumb controversy.
ANY hetero man who found out that the "woman" he hooked up with or masturbated to is a "man" would have the EXACT same reaction.
Ever seen Ace Ventura? The Crying Game? The list is long and well known. It's simply a cultural thing.
Enough with the uber-sensitivity.
abba422 2 years ago
I'm guessing you probably don't want to hear how NOT true that is.
lexilicious74 2 years ago 5
@lexilicious74 Now THAT was funny.
jumpup 2 years ago
@lexilicious74 LOL ;D
blackflower75 1 year ago
As a woman whom happens to have a medical trans status I'll say this:
I think Letterman was making fun of the guy getting all wierded out by Miss Amanda Simpson.
Still knowing that the end result can be homicide or even Suicide for the Trans persons involved I find it hard to laugh with this skit..
Cristasphoto 2 years ago
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someone that confused about their gender shouldn't be anywhere near the government.
luke666808g 2 years ago
she isn't confused, that's the thing, she did change her (physical) sex, right? You wouldn't do that if you weren't completely sure of your gender.
petnogakatten 2 years ago
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She's a dude with a hacked up penis, nuff said.
luke666808g 2 years ago
@luke666808g - A very knowledgeable response there......ROFL.
IntellectualAmy 2 years ago
@IntellectualAmy LOL
blackflower75 1 year ago
@luke666808g _Oh fo fuck yourself, you KKK idiot! What does having gender dysphoria have to do with being in the government? Trans women are merely women who were born in the wrong body. Like that has anything to do with being in the government.
GretaOfSpringwood 1 year ago
@GretaOfSpringwood trans women are men born in male bodies, who decided to get their genitals chopped up and turned inside out like some kind of Frankenstein shit.
luke666808g 1 year ago
@luke666808g @luke666808g Oh you stupid ignorant sad shit! You know NOTHING about this! in the 1st place NOTHING is chopped off. God you are so fucking ignorant! Yeah a baby can be born with all kinds of birth defects but the idea of a baby being born with a male body and a female brain is TOTALLY out of the question. All I can say is you are just ignorant, uneducated trash.
GretaOfSpringwood 1 year ago
@luke666808g And you know what if we DO decide to do it by choice SO WHAT? If a male would be HAPPIER was a woman and be a productive member of society what is the problem? what does it have to do with YOU? You homophobic fuck!
I'm glad you have a degree in all this!
GretaOfSpringwood 1 year ago
@GretaOfSpringwood it has to do with me because I'm a tax payer, if you let trannies into the government they'll start giving out free tax payer funded sex changes in the name of liberalism.
luke666808g 1 year ago
@luke666808g They should, it's a medical condition. In Iraq the government DOES fund sex changes. And it has nothing to do with liberalism. Trans people are as diverse as non-trans people. I'm a trans woman and I am a moderate, extreme liberals get on my nerves as well as extreme conservatives. There are MANY conservative trans people too.
GretaOfSpringwood 1 year ago 3
@GretaOfSpringwood Bullshit it's a medical condition, that just sounds fuckin silly to me, tax funding I mean, actually it sounds like the bullshittest government spending I've ever heard of, no wonder Iraq needs America to stick around, they're blowing their defense budget on sex changes, what a stupid idea.
luke666808g 1 year ago
@luke666808g Youre just full of hate.
GretaOfSpringwood 1 year ago
@GretaOfSpringwood That doesn't matter, nobody should be forced to pay for someone else's sex change.
luke666808g 1 year ago
@luke666808g I guess for that matter no one should be forced to pay for ANYONE'S surgery no matter what it is.
GretaOfSpringwood 1 year ago
@GretaOfSpringwood Well I live in Australia, we have free HC here, we don't however have free cosmetic surgery, you're expected to pay for that out of your own pocket, which seems reasonable to me.
luke666808g 1 year ago
@luke666808g, From what I've seen Australia's pretty well a homophopic/transphobic country.
GretaOfSpringwood 1 year ago
@luke666808g But its o.k to pay for other medical treatment ? What is the reasoning behind your opinion, and what personal experience do you have with trans people ?
blackflower75 1 year ago
@luke666808g I agree with Greta, you're an intolerant fuckwit!
RalphieSon 1 year ago
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I don't see how that was offensive at all.
LSGanon 2 years ago
@LSGanon , B/c trans people should be respected as their INWARD gender, it's offensive to say, Ah she used to be a DUDE! As much as I love Alan and Dave, they as well s most of us could leanr some trans etiquette.
GretaOfSpringwood 1 year ago
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Its fake... it didnt happen.. the Joke is the name.. Amanda.. A Man Du
Greg78X 2 years ago
discracefull
dajewfromdau 2 years ago 5
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That was funny. lol. Those ppl are disturbed and STUPID. SICK!! They have some nerve defying God with this sickness. The consequences are going to be dire for that.
diah4 2 years ago
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i thought it was hilarious
MarkG45 2 years ago
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it's funny
cidrosmith 2 years ago
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It's comedy folks, get over it.
blite13 2 years ago
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It wasn't an insult against the transgender woman. It was mocking the reaction of someone who "freaks out" over it.
Some people are being hypersensitive about this.
AnUnidentifiedMale 2 years ago
that crazy letterman
4daheluvit 2 years ago
It was irreverent and politically incorrect but that's what Letterman does. It's what he's ALWAYS done to EVERYONE (including himself).
You all just need to lighen up, get over yourselves, and realize that if we want equal treatment that means EQUAL, not preferential, treatment.
Besides, the joke could just as well have been mocking the transphobe as Amanda Simpson.
lexilicious74 2 years ago
San FranFreakshow? Wow, how long did it take you to come up with that one?
Yawn.
aubreytube 2 years ago
I'm not going to call this tasteful, but it could have been a lot worse...
aubreytube 2 years ago
Ms. Simpson is a three-decade veteran of the industry she is now going to be regulating. She has a list of credentials as long as your arm. This joke was worse than offensive, it wasn't funny.
1992 called, it wants its joke back.
Maupin001 2 years ago 7
3 degrees (2 science, 1 business); Board Member of multiple LGBT Activist Orgs; State ACLU; Ran for US Congress unopposed in Democratic Primary and lost the Gen. Well educated, very experienced, VERY well connected.
Her post is only an advisory position. No authority. Low profile.
Obama gained political capital with LGBT groups; risked little to nothing. Great strategy by Obama.
I wonder, did she get the post in spite or because of her TG? Politics is funny that way.
lexilicious74 2 years ago 6
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Obama = horrible disaster
corydig 2 years ago
untasteful and sad
JoeyBoya 2 years ago
if only letterman made your joke about A-Man-Duh then everyone would like him
northberlin 2 years ago
Welcome to the mainstream, where fairly tasteless jokes are made
tdubb3 2 years ago
LOL
that was hilarious
MalesCantMarryMales 2 years ago
Are you stalking me, BlondeNursesOral??
ApocalypsePlough 2 years ago
Funny, I'd say the same thing if I slept with David Letterman and didn't know it was him ...... "THAT WAS DAVID LETTERMAN I SLEPT WITH?? ...... OH MY GOD!! yeccccch......."
Dave just keeps digging himself in deeper and deeper, don't he? I used to like him. Now.....not so much.
ApocalypsePlough 2 years ago
As always, Obama sucks.
thirdcoastguy 2 years ago
"Einhorn is Finkle. Finkle is Einhorn. Einhorn is a man! Oh, my god! Einhorn is a man?! "
Meejoe27 2 years ago
@Meejoe27
Great reference! I didn't see your comment before I made the same reference too.
EvanConover 2 years ago
If you used to be a dude, and you wanna date a straight man, you better tell him as soon as he shows any interest. He can then make an informed decision as to whether he wants to pursue you romantically. And he's not entitled to be a jerk about it. But... if you hide that fact, because in your mind "it shouldn't matter", then you deserve every insult he throws at you later. Because you may thing he's a bigot, but to his eyes you are a lying sack of shite. And you're both right.
marconospam 2 years ago
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Obama should make him or her or whatever it is a TSA agent. I'm sure it wouldn't have any problem feeling up some Arab terrorist's crotch.
stonerbudkap 2 years ago
Your an ignorant Jack Ass, Get a clue.
chloeprince2000 2 years ago
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stonerbudkap 2 years ago
This is an insult, because it reinforces the notion that "ITS OK" to react with outrage, anger and shock when someone is discovered being Transgendered. Well, its NOT OK. The fact is, there are Transgendered people everywhere - and they may be your father, mother, pastor or boss at work. You never know. MANY MANY MANY people never live openly about who they are - many never even cross dress - instead they live with fear, shame and pain and hide it to protect others.
chloeprince2000 2 years ago
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omfg, the joke clearly implies that he had known Amanda in a "biblical" sense but that he didn't know that she used to be a man. I think a reasonable person wouldn't be upset with that reaction given that situation.
shalcall 2 years ago
not funny, but then WHEN has Letterman EVER been funny?
nicademus666 2 years ago 3
From HRC: You may not be aware that the punch line in your skit has been used as a defense in nearly every hate crime perpetrated against transgender people that has come to trial. For example, the trans panic defense was infamously used by Allen Ray Andrade, who was convicted in 2009 of beating 19-year-old Angie Zapata to death with a fire extinguisher after learning of her gender history.
KishonaIsa 2 years ago 6
How is this an insult?
nicotyn 2 years ago
Didn't find this funny. Dave wouldn't make descriminating racial jokes about Obama. What makes descrinating sexual jokes about an appointed offical funny. Some of the previous comments here are moronic.
marnie1503 2 years ago
People/society have become so thin-skinned that anything - insult or not - offends. Very sad. BTW, this skit appears to make fun of "transphobia" as many have stated below...
ocsspot 2 years ago
I honestly didn't find this really offensive because it seemed more like he was making fun of transphobia more than anything else. Still wasn't that funny though, so I guess it did fail as a joke.
LordLegless 2 years ago
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That was a funny joke satire whatever but it was funny. I laughed and I dont hate transgenders or gay people, and I respect them, but if they want us to treat them like regular people and respect them they shouldn't be treated in a special way like if they were of some rare kind and should not be subjects of jokes at all like everyone else
lopff 2 years ago
No one is asking for special privliages - JUST DIGNITY. Just becasue it is aloud to be said, doesn't make it right. No one is asking for a law to be passed - just for an apology for a comment that dehumanizes a minority. You would not understand the fear that one lives with day to day from people who would do you harm - not only to you, but your family, work and others in your life. Its is NOT ok to marginalize a minority as freaks or people that should be seen or met with outrage.
chloeprince2000 2 years ago 3
tar and feather.
gdrbs427 2 years ago
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The problem with irony is that sometimes people just don't get it. This is satire. It's making fun of the people that are transphobic.
andajari 2 years ago
I thought it was funny. And for the record, she is my sister.
luluspapa 2 years ago
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Why should we take a guy who dresses as a woman to go to work seriously ?
If i want to work alongside clowns i will work at the circus, i don't want a clown as an employee, a boss or a colleague
MMMisterDNA 2 years ago
SHE does not just dress like a woman, she IS a woman. Simple as that.
And she is NOT a clown!
petnogakatten 2 years ago 19
Yes and I am Santa Claus, save the costumes for halloween night, otherwise try not to scare the kids by inviting them to the gay parade.
MMMisterDNA 2 years ago
@petnogakatten Well said, My cous in trans and I've seen fist hand the shit she's gone through, if people ever had this hit close to home with someone they love, they wouldn't say such hateful things.
RalphieSon 1 year ago 2
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A gay male is attracted to a male because he is really a she on the inside, I get it
A gay male gets a sex change to look like a female, to attract a strait male? if not, is the gay male that's attracted to her\him really gay?
davidpark68 2 years ago
what?
zdwade 2 years ago 2
Where did i loose you? a gay male gets a sex change essentially turning him into a female, right? if another gay male is attracted to a female, is he gay? Obviously no. then why else would a gay male get a sex change if not to attract a strait male by deception?
davidpark68 2 years ago
Males that are attracted to men are homosexual. They have a sexual preferance NOT a gender varaince. Men that change their sex have a GENDER IDENTITY ISSUE, not a sexual preferance issue.
People have a "Gender ReAssignment Surgery" do NOT do so because of their sexual preferances. They do it to aalign their MIND with their BODY.
The AMA backs this proceedure as the recommended care for anyone diagnosed with "Gender Identity Dysphoria". It has NOTHING to do with ones sexual perferance.
chloeprince2000 2 years ago 3
So what's the sexual preference of those that have a gender identity Issue? do they abstain or do they deceive (if that's possible long term) or is their partners bisexual?
davidpark68 2 years ago
Since 1980 it's become about 50/50 on the preference issue although I expect that to lean heavier towards "preference for females" in the future.
Dating is difficult before the surgery for those of us who self-identify as "straight" for obvious reasons. Honestly, it doesn't get much better after surgery for the very reason this video shows.
lexilicious74 2 years ago
Most of us just want to blend and have "normal" lives. Unlike the aggro-activist harpies, we don't really want to advertise our "medical condition". The odds are most of us aren't going to disclose on a first date but there does come a time when something HAS to be said if one has any ethics. The guys who stick around may do it because they genuinely see us as truly female or they may actually be bi. They almost always self-identify as "straight", though.
lexilicious74 2 years ago
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I have 2 friends that are gay & I honestly don't have a problem with it because they are obviously females in a males body. everything about their persona is female. but I often wondered about the people that got sex changes, it didn't make sense to me considering who they were trying to attract.
i've got no clue what a aggro-activist harpie is.
just a couple of questions though, to be politically correct is sex change an acceptable term? & do I address a man that had one as a man or a woman?
davidpark68 2 years ago
"Agro-activist harpie" is a pet pejorative of mine. There are TS/TG people for whom TS/TG identity seems very important, almost central, to their "sense of self". As such they become activists and join LGBT-Rights groups and tend to get VERY aggressive when people don't kiss their butts. (you can see a lot of that in this list) I use the pejorative because I abhor what they do. IMO, incessant b*tching does far more harm than good among the general population. Harpie is from mythology.
lexilicious74 2 years ago
"Sex Change" is fine with me because that's what I'm doing; chaning my biological sex from male to female. It's never used anymore, though.
"Sexual Reassignment Surgery" or "SRS" is still the most widely used term globally.
"Gender Reassignment Surgery" or "GRS" is growing in popularity although I personally dislike it for etymological reasons.
Finally, there's a small group who like "Gender Affirmation Surgery" or "GAS" which is complete BS.
lexilicious74 2 years ago 3
LOL, I'll never remember all that, i can barely remember my name until I had my second cup of coffee so how hard will I be slapped if i just say sex change?
davidpark68 2 years ago
Tell you what, just stick to SRS and pretty much everyone will be OK with it.
lexilicious74 2 years ago
To be the absolute MOST polite as you can it's always best to use gender-specific pronouns based on the presentation of the person you're talking to.
BTW, there are Female-To-Male TS and TG people too.
lexilicious74 2 years ago 6
I knew there were cross dressers, again excuse me if I'm not up on the terminology I'm not trying to be offensive, but how does that work (literally). you can chop down a tree to get a stump but you can't put the tree back on the stump & expect it to grow (again literally)
davidpark68 2 years ago
LOL. It's not something I've looked into recently, not affecting me personally and all. I did read something about skin grafts and implants about ten years ago. I don't think most of guys opt for surgery because it doesn't really work all that well.
lexilicious74 2 years ago