I guess I’ve never seen The World According to Garp, cause I didn’t realize he’d played a trans character… I guess I first remember him from Harry and the Hendersons?
Anyway… read the room and fuck off, John.
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We both must be late Gen X and/or early millennials!
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Early millennial in my case.
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Late gen x in mine!
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The first episode of Mr. Cooper’s new series opens with a long reading from “Germany Must Perish!,” a 1941 tract by an American Jewish businessman calling for the mass sterilization of Germans — and a text used by both Nazi war criminals and German revisionist historians to claim that World War II was motivated by a genuine German fear of a Jewish plot to take over the world.
It’s a classic Cooper move — to try to put his listeners in the mind-set of a group considered beyond the pale, to get listeners to understand how they arrived at their justifications.
But to what end? What are the present political implications of trying to empathize with Germans under the Nazi regime, to better understand their own justifications for their crimes?
Free to read. I suppose that by bringing this propagandist to your attention, I’m committing the same acts of intellectual vandalism.
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I’ve never seen the movie, but the book … well, I liked it when I read it decades ago. I suspect it’s one of those that probably is best left in my memory.
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I never read the book. I did see the movie and liked it back then. I haven’t seen it in a very long time, so I have no idea if it holds up well now, but for the time in which it was made, and if my memory hasn’t failed me (which it may have), Lithgow’s portrayal of a trans woman in that film was a positive one, aside from the obvious issues with casting a cis man to play a trans woman, which was always done back then. That being said, apparently this character is presented in the book better than on film. This is a quote from John Irving, who wrote the bookL
It was the early 1980s when George Roy Hill asked me if I would write the screenplay for Garp , but I knew we didn’t see eye to eye about Roberta. George was a World War II guy; he couldn’t see past the comedic part of a transgender woman who’d been an NFL player. A pity, because John Lithgow, who was cast as Roberta in the film, could have played her as I wrote her. Roberta is a force of normality in an otherwise extreme world; she is the only character who loves Garp and his mother equally, the only character who isn’t in a rage about someone or something. I declined to write the Garp script because George wouldn’t do Roberta my way.
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I read the book way back when it was popular, and saw the movie, and I remember being influenced especially by the book to view trans people in a positive, humane light. There was next to no other encouragement in general society back then that I remember. As usual, I thought the book was better.
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Water and itching powder… 
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Since liberal women won’t date men of his ilk, this reeks of
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LOL. Yeah, the women’s attitudes make them intensely undesirable. Keep telling yourself that, big tough alpha male incel brodudes.
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And ranting about how unfair it is “betas” somehow get all the dates and how there needs to be a redistribution of sex, because it’s far more important to act the way you imagine deserves a harem than try to be someone women can actually stomach. 
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