Interview · moment 10 of 16
Fake Bisexuals, Fake Trans People, and Online Identity Tribalism
from #244 - Dobrik's Death Count | The Tim Dillon Show · #244
6 min
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Tim riffs on comedians falsely claiming bisexuality for audience approval and questions why trans identity claims go unquestioned, leading into a discussion with Katie and Jesse about how ambiguous terms like 'queer' and 'non-binary' let people fake identity for social credit, comparing it to white academics faking minority racial identities.
- Tim distinguishes between what people see on Twitter and the average trans person who just wants to be left alone and access hormones.
- Digital-native generation relies on online relationships and tribal belonging to gain clout, drawing circles around themselves to declare identity rather than encountering diverse people in the real world.
- Tim argues that if he were trans, he wouldn't want fake trans people in the movement, just like he only wants real comedians doing comedy.
- Men on stage claim bisexuality without actually sleeping with men, gaining audience favor by declaring queer thoughts while remaining fundamentally straight.
- Vague terms like queer and non-binary are easy to adopt without changing behavior, unlike actually faking a different race, which requires visible effort.
- White academics have been caught posing as members of races they don't belong to, which requires perming hair and tanning—harder to fake than just declaring an identity online.
- Younger people have fragile identities and put mental illnesses in their Twitter bios, trying to be original and unique in a pack-mentality, play-by-numbers way.