It’s frankly shocking in hindsight how many movies in the 90s and early 00s used “attractive woman used to be a man” as a joke. Like no other punchline, just “haha she used to be a man” or the even more disgusting variant of “male main character shocked and disgusted by knowledge they slept with post op trans woman”. Like you’re right, pop culture barely acknowledged trans people as even existing normally until… Fuck, barely 10 years ago?
I’ve taken to either giving them sarcastic double thumbs up followed by a derisive headshake, or just locking eyes and giving them a slow, negative headshake. Disappointment stings harder than insults.
Unfortunately I regret to inform you the buffalo are native stand ins yes. The show is… Exceedingly bad about racializing characters.
There is for instance one zebra character on the show. Her introductory episode was about everyone doing racism towards her. She lives in a Darkest Africa themed voodoo shack in the middle of the Bad Forest, speaks in rhyme, and has gold bands around her neck. She was introduced in season like… 2, and the show ended on 9 seasons, and no other characters as racialized as her showed up
Remember, being paid minimum wage means that they’d pay you less if they could get away with it!
Prague was, for a very long time, spoken of in the same category as London and Paris. It used to be a very popular place for intellectuals and artists through the 19th century.