That stuff comes up occasionally but like maybe there’s an issue once a season or so, it’s not going to be distracting episode to episode.
The bigger problem their imho, is the laugh track. It’s just weird watching a show with a laugh track these days, especially when modern comedies have learned to use that time to cram in way more jokes. It just makes friends feel somewhat archaic and out of time, even compared to Seinfeld which objectively looks much older from a cinematography standpoint
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We must see things wildly differently. I remember Ross having a lesbian wife, and she had a lesbian partner, and they were always written as strong characters. The closest thing to homophobic is they’d make little jokes among the men about how they appear to others. And then they’d say something like “Oh, don’t do it THAT way!” And then the 3 guys would go “HEY! WHOA! OK!” as if to say that the way they were doing it looked gay, and they didn’t want to appear gay.
Which I don’t find homophobic so much as it is insecure, which was the whole joke. Their insecurities in themself is the joke. Not a hatred of gay people.
I don’t remember any mentions at all about trans on the show. I’m not even sure the word “trans” existed at the time.
The only sexism I remember is the football thanksgiving episode, and the poker episode. But the sexism itself was the joke. And I think they played both sides fairly.
kipo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Chandler’s “dad” was trans, but they didn’t use that word. I don’t remember if they ever put a hard label on that character, but his dad wasn’t just a drag queen. Chandler’s growing acceptance over the course of the show was a positive, but the jokes made were not.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not sure why you used airquotes on dad, but yeah. I totally forgot about that character. I see your point now.