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The Netflix Baby-Sitters Club show is ridiculous
Posted September 1, 2021 by pennygadget in Television

Of course, Netflix had to fuck up another classic by cramming trans shit into it. In this clip of the new Babysitter's Club show (about one minute in), Maryann is taking care of a little "trans girl" (played by real life Munchausen-By-Proxy victim Kai Shappley). And the way they go about it was so stupid it was hilarious and I had to share it here!

The kid ends up in the hospital while Maryann is babysitting him. And, while in the hospital, the admitting nurse does the logical thing and assumes the kid is male because it says "male" on his chart. This triggers both Maryann and the delusional child.

The doctor arrives and then commits the mortal sin of......giving the child a BLUE HOSPITAL GOWN!!!!!! Despite this young child being in the midst of a medical emergency without his mommy or daddy nearby, he only gets sad about his perdiciment when confronted with a blue hospital gown. This prompts Maryann: The Wokest Babysitter to demand the doctor and nurse step outside the boy's room so they can have words.

Maryann then scolds the medical professionals for reading the child's medical chart instead of seeing into his internal gender soul ("Bailey's hair is LONG!! She's CLEARLY a girl, idiots!!!"). She demands that the doctor and nurse validate Bailey's identity and delay the child's medical treatment so they can find a non-blue hospital gown (because the child might die of dysphoria if he touches anything that isn't pink and covered in glitter). And while Maryann is climbing on her soapbox and telling these doctors that wearing a blue article of clothing will invalidate the child's girlhood; she is wearing a blue outfit herself (does this mean Maryann is a trans-boy!?). Apparently, cis-girls are immune to being poisoned by the color blue.

The funniest thing about this scene is how the doctor and nurse immediately cower before this bratty teenager and slink off with their tails between their legs to fetch a pink hospital gown (because I guess this hospital has a boutique of fashionable hospital gowns available upon request)

First off, anyone familiar with how medical settings work would know about a little thing called "HIPAA" that safeguards a patient's privacy. In real life, this teenage kid who isn't related to the patient wouldn't be allowed any input into his care nor would she be allowed to demand the doctors ignore the information on the kid's medical chart. She'd be told to shut up and go alert the kid's family!

Second, if a little kid is having a medical emergency, I would hope that doctors & nurses wouldn't delay treating the child just because he threw a tantrum about not liking the color of his hospital gown. And, as far as I know, most hospitals don't have a selection of pretty gowns for patients to wear just in case they want to look cute while they're writhing in pain on the bed and potentially vomiting and/or pissing all over themselves.

Also, when I gave birth last year, I was given a blue hospital gown! And, somehow, my womanhood didn't whither away and I didn't die from misgendering. Must be my cis privilege of being immune to blue poisoning

I'm trying to see the humor in this because it's so fucking stupid. But it's also sad because this shit is aimed at children and the little boy playing the "trans-girl" in this scene is being groomed to be the next Jazz Jennings in real life. I just wanted to post this so anyone unaware of this reboot knows to avoid it (ESPECIALLY if you have kids)

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