Let me start this video by telling you guys a story, okay?
There was once a guy, he was OCD and he anytime,
anything got a little icky, he lost his mind. He washed his hands 20 times a day.
He was OCD as you can imagine.
Well one day, in a public bathroom that his dick happened to touch the inside
of the toilet bowl. That's just life, okay? But for this guy with OCD...
He couldn't handle it.
He had to cut it off and restart his life as a woman.
Now obviously that's a bit of an overreaction.
That's what makes it comical, okay?
Now that's the joke that I told on Twitter, that had a lot of people
accusing me of being transphobic. So this person wrote "h3h3 is transphobic"
eight times in response to my tweet. It has 300 retweets and a thousand likes.
[Using Megaphone] This is the Joke Police! Put your hands in the air and [???] out of twitter!
Now this is the first time I've ever been accused of being racist or transphobic or anything like that,
one of these things where people get on the soapbox, and they have to
apologize and your sponsors find out and you too- It's like one of these things, right?
It didn't really escalate that far but I felt like I was under the microscope of like:
"Hey, this guy's a bigot!" or...
I don't know what people say, okay?
So I felt like I was thinking about it a lot because there's a really interesting experience for me.
I felt like I wanted to talk about it a little bit.
So what I wrote was:
Apparently the part that was really offensive that I didn't realize was that
underneath I said:
"My name is Ellen. I'm chaning my name to Ethan to Ellen."
...And thereby starting my life as a female, because my dick touched the inside of the toilet bowl.
Now i'm just gonna say this...
for the first time and I'll keep repeating it but
[Using Megaphone] just because they were offended by a joke
doesn't mean that the joke was inherently offensive!
Let me turn on the siren for the joke police, hold on.
*Siren Blaring* Just because you're offended by a joke, doesn't mean that the joke was inherently offensive!
Maybe, I'm being obtuse. Maybe I'm being transphobic. I don't know, but I don't feel like I am! That's what's so frustrating.
Can somebody tell me what was so offensive about what I said that set off people?
To be so angry at me to feel like we were having such a misunderstanding,
I want to read some of the responses on Twitter, and offer a response to them now.
So walk with me, let's take a look...
When I found out that I was being accused of being transphobic,
I made a little bit of a goof in response to it...
One person said:
Boom, dude! Got me every bit of the way oh!
Lock me up, you guys.
I have committed a joke crime.
I disagree! I just fundamentally disagree.
I feel that people are apologizing for too much shit.
I personally feel, and you'll know that if you've been watching our channel,
that people are too sensitive and demanding of apologies over shit.
Maybe I am being childish about it. I mean, the joke itself was childish to begin with...
But to say that I owe you or anybody an apology just isn't true.
I don't!
By the way, I noticed that you said "transgressions".
That could be problematic. Did you think about it long enough?
Seriously, that could be extremely problematic!
Okay Martin Luther King. I just made a little joke about chopping my dick off.
Not time to march on Washington DC!
How's that a tragedy?! It is a tragedy for me!
Have some sympathy! My dick touched the toilet bowl.
That's a tragedy!
Now let me be clear that whatever I'm trying to say isn't meant to be a generalization about trans people.
That's ridiculous. I'm talking about people who are easily offended by stuff,
and start slamming pots and pans trying to change the world so that it doesn't offend them.
But what is this person's point? That we can't make fun of trans people?
Everybody gets made fun of, that's kind of like in a way an acceptance.
When people can joke about you, and you acknowledge in that way it kind of makes you more human.
But you pushing back and saying no, no you can't joke about us.
It's almost counterproductive for you because we all get made fun of!
Imagine if I got offended by every little Jew joke that I saw on the internet, which is by the way every single day.
I wouldn't be able to get out of my bed in the morning, feeling like I can't express myself genuinely.
We're living in a society where there's eggshells everywhere!
We're all tiptoeing around and it's fucking stupid, my intention wasn't to be offensive!
So can you just accept it on that face value? If you're looking for an apology,
you're not gonna get it. But hopefully, at least maybe you can understand where I'm coming from a little bit.
Guys, do not go out of your way to find who made these comments and go harass them.
These are genuine people expressing genuine feelings that I do respect.
I just think that I should be able to respond and defend myself, that's all. Do not harass these people.
These are good, genuine people who are just doing what they think is the best, okay?
...And guys, I love you. You know, genitalia dangling or not.
Whatever's going on between your legs, none of my business!
I support you and I love you either way!