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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
In my haste to make my clarification, I missed the tail end of your post.
Wonder what you think about the present day critiques of homophobia in Friends. First the whole 'is Chandler gay' thing, then the stuff with his dad the trans lounge singer.
I've noticed a lot of millennials getting snarky, but then that's the age we're in.
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Friends isn't flawless, for sure. But it feels far more progressive for its time than HIMYM does for its time in that regard.
Today, I'd prefer that an actual trans actor play Chandler's father. But the inclusion of a trans character at all was fairly forward thinking. Also, Friends is so damned white-washed. Living in the Village in the 90s/00s you'd think they'd encounter some greater ethnicity. Again, not flawless.