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The Umbrella Academy season 3 is literally telling teenage girls if they don't like looking at themselves in the mirror then they are trans
Posted June 23, 2022 by spw in Television

I just watched the first 1.5 episodes of season 3 of The Umbrella Academy. The way they show her transition is really scary and the way the other characters react is too. Presumably, this is how they think people should react?

The first episode doesn't say anything about it. About 5 minutes into the second, there is a scene where Vanya is looking for extracts about the women from the past in newspapers. We see flashbacks of the past including Sissy saying something like "You don't even notice the box that you're in til someone lets you out." Soon after, we see her getting a haircut

We then see her talking to 3 of her brothers and one of them makes a comment about her hair. She then tells them about meeting with one of the Sparrow family in the previous episode and they ask her something addressing her as Vanya. She says "It's uh Viktor." One of them says after a slightly awkward pause "who's Viktor?" She says "I am, it's who I've always been" and after another awkward pause, she says "Uh, is that an issue for anyone?" Obviously, they say this is fine, and accept this no questions asked like obedient sheep.

So this is how we're supposed to react if someone comes out as trans, don't question it at all. It just adds to this belief that anyone who expresses any suggestion of being trans is trans. Also to TiPs who watch this that if their family doesn't react like this then they are bigots. It is just going to push these people further away from their parents who are not reacting in the way TRA would like. And it's also scary how seemingly she just literally realized this same day and now she knows she is trans 100% no questions asked

Later in the episode, she tells Allison. We don't actually see her telling Allison. but we see their conversation immediately after. Allison says things like "why didn't you tell me sooner, I can't believe I never realized, I feel like such an asshole." Because obviously this is what you are thinking after a sibling comes out as trans. Vanya/Viktor says "you couldn't have known as I didn't fully...She opened something in me. Showed me I'd never be free hiding from who I really am...I just can't live in that box anymore"

Even more scarily she says "you know I always hated mirrors, I thought everyone felt so strange in their skin. I guess that's not true right?" How can the producers not see the problem with this? She is literally saying that if you hate looking at yourself in the mirror and feel insecure about your body, this means you're trans? How can they not see how this could affect an insecure teenager? So many people don't like looking at themselves in the mirror

Allison now asks: "What do you see now?" Vanya/Viktor says "Me. Just me." At this point, she's (in the show at least) literally just had a haircut. You can tell throughout even in the first episode that she's on testosterone but they don't want you to think that and in the show, she's just had a haircut. Now she is suddenly okay with her body just with a haircut which is just crazy. Allison now is completely accepting and says something like "Thanks for trusting me with this...there's nothing that would make me love you less." At this point, I just stopped watching I was just somewhat curious as to how bad it was going to be.

21 comments

[Deleted]August 15, 2022

Ahahaa, they even managed to get the diaper fetish in there!

ProxyMusicAugust 15, 2022

My fave is the skit where Emily gets arrested and as Emily is sitting at the desk in the precinct doing his intake interview, the policeman asks if he wants to call home. Emily says "oh yes, thank you" in his high-pitched ladyee voice and over-effusive ladyeelike way, then dials the old rotary phone in a most feminine w ay with his delicate ladyee fingers, coquetteishly smiling and batting his eyelids at the cop sitting on the other side of the desk all the while. But when the telephone is picked up on the other end, suddenly Emily's voice drops into deep man register as David Walliams says, "Hi, it's Dad. Put your mother on."

[Deleted]August 14, 2022

Wow, so accurate, except for (i) the time they actually pee in the men's room and (ii) all the regular people being allowed to tell the truth, i.e. that they're men.

CailinAugust 14, 2022

Not sure if anyone has already posted this as I’m new enough here still. But my friend and I watched this earlier and had such a laugh about how much of it has actually become quite relevant.

NoNameAugust 14, 2022

Quite prophetic but he probably knew some gender specials before we all did.

VirginiaWolfberryAugust 14, 2022

How has Matt Lucas not been cancelled?

Carrots90August 14, 2022(Edited August 14, 2022)

1-he is male

2- he has made the proper noises about TWAW and TMAM

still not dating TIFs tho. It’s fine as long as the young LGB are still open season

[Deleted]August 15, 2022

What about the other guy? Also a coward?

Carrots90August 15, 2022(Edited August 15, 2022)

I haven’t seen him in the public light. AFAIK he isn’t in show buisness

Edit to add, I can name two places I’ve seen him right off the bat. Krod Mandoon and Pitch Perfect

Don’t even know the other guys name

Edit to add again, maybe he wouldn’t apologize

VirginiaWolfberryAugust 15, 2022

I don’t understand how hypocritical TRAs are! Astounding.

ProxyMusicAugust 14, 2022

Matt Lucas made groveling apologies.

VirginiaWolfberryAugust 15, 2022

Ah. That explains it.

[Deleted]August 14, 2022

Here's the one with TIMs in women's sports: Little Britain Does Sport Relief 2016

Were there any TIMs in women's sports yet (other than Renée Richards back in the 1970s)?

CailinAugust 14, 2022

So funny 😂

I love how he resorts back to his usual male voice when he doesn’t get his way - “kiss my hand…..KISS IT”

kalinaAugust 15, 2022

Interesting that this is still up. I thought all versions of this 'Im a lady' sketch had been purged from youtube.

m0RT_1August 14, 2022

so fucking accurate

pennygadgetAugust 14, 2022

These skits were so prophetic. The only difference is that Emily & her friend were at least respectful enough to use the blokes bathroom

Every-Man-His-Own-FootballAugust 15, 2022(Edited August 15, 2022)

Today's TIMs are just like the TIMs from 20 years ago, who were ridiculed in these skits. But now there's more of them and they have a lot of money to push their demands.

[Deleted]August 14, 2022(Edited August 15, 2022)

If only they were all like Emily and Florence (and everyone reacted to them with “nah, you’re a bloke”).

MissBehavedAugust 14, 2022

Taken down from Youtube in 5... 4... 3... 2...

HuaMulanAugust 14, 2022

"Emily" Howard clearly doesn't understand the fundamental concept of personal space, and her real-life counterparts (yes, even if they don't go all the way with their trans woo) show us why "trans in everything but name" doesn't work.