Review: “Romanoffs” Ends in Shameful, Hateful, Transphobic Trope
Shame on you Mathew Wiener, and your entire crew!
Spoiler Alert!
The webcast video series Romanoffs ended its eight episode first season finale the other day with a tired, over used transphobic trope of the dysfunctional, murderous transsexual. Gee… like nobody has ever done that one before!
The series is predicated on showcasing ever more dysfunctional “Romanoffs”. So, in the season finale, we surely would be seeing the single most ‘effed-up’ human being of all… and what is the most ‘effed-up’ type of person in the mind of the show runners? Why, a transsexual of course!
In a series of flashbacks that relate the tale that an older woman, Candice, tells to her chance met seat neighbor on a train, we see a back story of a transsexual Romanoff who turns out to be Candice herself. (The fact that my legal name is Candice and I’m transsexual of about the same age was spooky and disturbing. OMG!!! Am I a cliche?) In the flashbacks, we see how her step-mother, and possibly her father in collusion, murdered her mother and attempted to murder Candice when she was a child. We see her father’s hateful rejection. We see Candice’s love affair with a bisexual man end when her lover choses to marry a woman instead of staying with Candice. Given that this episode is one long series of tired cliches and tropes, we have to have a suicide attempt. Finally, it turns out that this wasn’t a chance meeting on the train, but carefully arranged and timed so that she could murder her half-brother and recover a Romanoff family heirloom set of earrings that belonged to Candice’s mother, and by right, to her and not to her non-Romanoff step-mother.
In terms of karmic revenge, there was no need to write the episode ending with Candice killing her innocent half-brother by poison on the train to avenge herself against her step-mother. Simply drugging him would have been enough to allow her to recover her earrings from his luggage. No, the murder was to cap the episode with the transphobic trope of the evil, mentally ill, transsexual murderer.
Shame on you Mathew Wiener, and your entire crew!
Shame !!! Shame !!! Shame !!!!!
Further Reading:
Further External Reading:
https://www.bitchmedia.org/post/end-of-gender-transsexual-killer-strikes-again-sevigny-transphobia
On the Science of Changing Sex 
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