Geraldine

 

By Alison Tieman: Geraldine is a cartoon short about Gerald who wakes up one day as the woman Geraldine. It’s somewhat cliched in its depiction of Gerald’s transition but does have interesting things to say about female privilege. Geraldine is suddenly seen as an object of concern by men who give her gifts, rides home and compassion. On the flip side Geraldine is also subject to sexual harassment leading to the cliched scene of a man smacking her ass and Geraldine flipping out and head butting him unconscious.
Which leads me to one of my main criticisms. Geraldine is angry; way, way, way too angry to be believable as a former man.

Men don’t get away with the level of anger Geraldine indulges in on a regular basis and I imagine if Gerald would submissively accept sexual harassment from women—like most men do—most likely he would also submissively accept it from men as a woman.

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