it's meant to signal cheerleading for more pointless war and financial corruption. As for the transphobia, the intended audience has enough transphobia that Garrison doesn't have to spell it out. They just think "huh, the CNN anchor is cross dressing. That's immoral."
I'm more academically disagreeing with you, because he's not being cast as trying to be a woman but being an object of shame for taking a female ornament, not playing the correctly manly man. This is definitely interwoven with transphobia, but I don;t think the reader is supposed to read him as playing woman, but being foolish or whoreish like a woman. It's wrong either way, but I split hairs over brainworms.
I dont know if transphobia is the right term, but definitely bigotted
it's meant to signal cheerleading for more pointless war and financial corruption. As for the transphobia, the intended audience has enough transphobia that Garrison doesn't have to spell it out. They just think "huh, the CNN anchor is cross dressing. That's immoral."
I'm more academically disagreeing with you, because he's not being cast as trying to be a woman but being an object of shame for taking a female ornament, not playing the correctly manly man. This is definitely interwoven with transphobia, but I don;t think the reader is supposed to read him as playing woman, but being foolish or whoreish like a woman. It's wrong either way, but I split hairs over brainworms.