- My friend is gender nonconforming.
- Gender what the (beep) is that?
- [Narrator] Ms. Pat gets a lesson in pronouns.
- Hi, I don't identify as a boy or a girl.
- Like, ET?
(audience laughs)
I'm sorry.
See, I could be the bigger person.
- Child you already are.
(audience laughs)
- [Ryan] Wow.
- What you said was offensive?
- I'm a comedian.
It comes with the territory.
- Facts.
- No!
- It does.
- I'm gender nonconforming.
- Sound like I need to mind my damn business.
- Exactly.
That's it. It's that simple.
- How am I doing?
- Girl.
- How am I doing?
- That's a check in.
That's like a check in.
- I don't wanna be somebody's teachable moment.
- Oh, but y'all quick to make black people
the teachable moment.
- Why are you lying, June Bug?
- Fool, I ain't lying.
- Your dad straight busted you, (beep).
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- [Group] Whoa!
- So you gonna let El Salvador and Miracle Whip
there call you (beep)?
- Babe.
- [Ryan] You called him Miracle Whip.
- Only black people should be able to use the word.
Right Jesse?
- This means I can't answer that.
- I know that's right, Jesse you better be somewhere.
- Mom, who was that?
- His name Jesse.
- Not a he.
- Her name.
- Not a her, Mom.
- The (beep) name Jesse, okay?
(laughs)
- Name is Jesse.
- Well, if they meant it in a bad way,
then of course I'd be angry,
but
- Boo. Tomato, tomato.
- Tomato, tomato, tomato.
- [Ryan] Tomato, tomato. - It's not just a word.
- And this is why critical race theory
need to be in the school.
How you as a black boy don't know the historical context.
- That's because that's his parents fault.
- But you grew up in Atlanta.
Stop acting like y'all been in Indiana y'all whole life.
- Why is it okay for me to let you be you,
but you won't let me be me.
- Facts.
- White people said the same thing when they-
- I was just about to say that.
- African American.
- Now, you know that ain't the same.
- It is.
- It literally is.
(laughs)
- Literally.
- I grew up watching that Japanese (beep) Bruce Lee
kicking and slapping every damn body.
- Japanese, that man Chinese.
- Bruce Lee was a Chinaman?
- Oh, my God.
- [Ryan] Uh-uh.
- Considering counseling.
The church recommended a camp.
- Oh, no.
- Why would you wanna send your child to a camp
because he Neutrogena?
- [Shawntae] Neutrogena.
(laughs)
- Gender neutral?
- Yeah ain't nothing wrong with them either.
(laughs)
- I love you too.
- Now I need a tissue.
- Oh, you about to make my eye lashes fall off.
(laughs)
- This is like my new favorite show.
I am so in love with this show.
- Look at who's centered in certain movements
and so there's any erasure of-
- [Ryan] People forget about the word intersectionality
in a way that-
- Kind of like how white feminists do black women.
- Wait, what's intersectionality.
- Intersectionality explains it perfectly
that you can have multiple identities,
a part of your experience.
So me being fat, queer and black is all
of my experience.
This is what I show up in.
This is who I am.
- And we see it a lot of times
with white feminists because they ignore
the intersectionality of a woman being black
and also a woman.
- Yeah. - [Shawntae] Yeah.
- And so it's like, you know, you give-
- White feminism if it's not intersectional,
then it's just basically white supremacy.
- It's white supremacy in a dress.
- [Shawntae] Girl, thanks for the Ted Talk.
- And so the same thing happens within black communities
where we're all expected to take to the streets
and protests,
but something happen to me,
no one gives a shit, you know?
But it also is with most black women we've seen.
Unless you're a huge case, like Brianna Taylor.
We can have difficult conversations
as long as people come to the table with respect.
- And the biases, I think you have to be able to view
why those are there.
- And interrogate your biases.
- And interrogate that to look forward,
because then now you can have those opinion,
but let's figure out what those opinions are rooted in.
- Okay, but see, this is a problem with that.
It's hard to keep it grounded
because you feel like this is how I am.
This is how I was born.
This is my choice and this is my life.
When you have somebody say something against that
it personally affects you.
At some point, somebody's gonna say something
to hit somebody in their center and that equals pain.
And then in pain you get defense.
- All I'm saying is if you could laugh hard
at my single mama joke,
and I'm talking about dead beat daddies or whatever,
you could laugh at my lesbian joke.
You can laugh at my gay joke.
You can laugh at all the jokes.
It's don't pick what you wanna laugh at that time
because it doesn't affect with you.
But I know because when people come in into a comedy show
or a comedy sitcom with the open mind
of I'm free, it's fun.
- It's fun. - It's fun.
It's not directly personally trying to target me.
- But we say that all the time,
where sometimes we don't want to have to be critically
thinking about everything.
We just wanna laugh and be like, "This is stupid." right?
- Sometimes everything ain't therapy.
Sometimes it is just funny.
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