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Jackass star Steve-O has shared on why he changed his mind on getting breast implants, which he first announced in July was part of a series of planned pranks.

The stunt would have involved Steve-O getting his "whole body waxed", with all his tattoos removed via airbrush, and losing weight to "get really slender and petite". Steve-O would then attend a motorcycle rally attempting to capture "big gangs of motorcycle riders" checking him out before he reveals his real identity. "I would walk up to pull off my helmet and say, 'Yeah, dude,' and get this crazy reaction, which, predictably, would be contentious," he shares.

It was this part of the plan that the person Steve-O spoke with found troubling – as the act of deliberately tricking men into thinking he's a woman was planned so he could get footage of being "beaten up at the motorcycle rally", which he previously explained in July is part of doing a "funny endurance" stunt.

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“The show still has a bunch of really good comedy from that whole episode. And the extent to which I was prepared to go through with that is hilarious in its own right.”

No, it's not. It's fucking unhinged, jackass.

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 136 points 1 month ago (3 children)

However, at the time, Steve-O was still determined to see through the ambitious and controversial stunt. It was a conversation he had with a transgender grocery worker that caused him to rethink it.

“On the day that the scheduled surgery was supposed to happen, I was checking out at the supermarket,” he tells Consequence. “And the person ringing up my groceries was evidently transgender, and it struck me as a sign from the universe. So I asked the transgender person if I could run something by them, and I had a conversation with this person that had a profound impact on me.”

sis like, this trans grocery store worker was not expecting to be fucking steve-o's therapist that day what the hell

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 128 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

In terms of cis people seeing a visibly trans person and deciding to asking them random questions, this is way less intrusive than some of the common ones

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 86 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

yeah its not a good vibe to get clocked and be pulled aside by some famous guy but that was probably one of the least bad things he couldve asked her i guess oh-shit

[–] jack@hexbear.net 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And he took it seriously! Trans hero crazy-frog-trans

[–] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Jesus Christ is that how low the bar is?

[–] MusicOwl@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

A lot of the times, yes.

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 81 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Okay should I shove a model train up my ass instead then?"

"Well, I don't see how me being trans is relevant to that question, but yeah probably."

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Make sure you use a streamlined one, I don't recommend a boxy freight locomotove

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

The Shinkansen is too easy, though

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 78 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just reminds me of how many transphobes have literally never met a(n open) trans person.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

My mother is politically transphobic, but she like best friends with all my LGBT friends and it's weird. Like when she actually has to interface with people she is lovely and accepting, but the second Tucker Carlson says something she just accepts it without contrasting it with her lived experience.

[–] ElGosso@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean, imagine you're just at your job at the grocery store and a dude who made a living out of stapling his ballsack to his leg asks you if his idea is transphobic.

[–] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

who knows he mightve just reconsidered last min and needs to play it off

The anesthesiologist backed out. He's using the conversation to make this more profound.

The surgery was supposed to happen at eight in the morning. And 10 pm the night before, I got a call that the anesthesiologist backed out of it, because he found out that it was me doing it as a stunt.