[ SECRET POST #2738 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2738 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Wizards vs. Aliens]


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03.
[Hayao Miyazaki]


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04.
[Dragon Age Inquisition]


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05.
[Sarah Michelle Gellar and Lena Horne]


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06.
[Girl Genius]


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07.
[Dark Souls]


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08.
[TRON: Legacy]


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09.
[Phantom of the Opera]


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10.
[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]








Notes:

Big thunderstorm here, hoping the power stays up. Early to be safe!

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

lol, I don't know the canon on this one, but this is really reminding me of how many people were mad about Ace Attorney 5 because of Robin's storyline apparently being transphobic. Everyone seemed convinced she was a trans man even though (like with this character, though the opposite) she was forcibly raised as a boy by her parents, which... sounds a lot more like a trans woman to me, if anything! So when it ends by affirming her identity as a woman, everyone got mad because it's supposedly telling trans men they'll be happier as their assigned sex. I swear, tumblr has a really hard time with comprehension on things like this, and it kind of embarrasses me as a trans person.

(Like, don't get me wrong Robin is still the worst character in the series, but it's not because of that...)

(AA5 spillers)

[cloud_riven]

Ikr? She never identified as a man, and she was being forced to present as one. I don't see what about that is transphobic. There was a whole lot of nasty shit going on with that particular part of the case, but transphobia wasn't it.

I would have preferred Robin to be an overcompensating boy who loves to look pretty. But no. I just kept thinking, "wait what? Wait wait wait, go back to the part where your folk raised you as a boy? That seems like a big deal why the fuck did that happen are you okay? What wait what no stop twirling and go back a few steps to this thing that was a pretty big deal just a second ago."

[(Anonymous)]

What I can't stand is how tumblr takes characters who are clearly meant to be commentary on gender ROLES and goes "LOL THEY MUST REALLY BE TRANS!". It invalidates the entire point of their characterization and just reinforces sexism and gender essentialism by implying that any character who questions gender roles or doesn't quite fit into what we consider to be the standards of "male" or "female" can't actually be their birth gender.

Which is pretty fucked up, when you think about it.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, the problem is there is a serious lack of trans characters in pretty much all media. If there were more characters who were textually trans, then trans audience members wouldn't have to latch onto characters who don't adhere to gender roles and have all these trans headcanons for them. But there aren't, so they're all kind of grasping at straws because it's as close as they're getting to seeing themselves in the media they enjoy.

(Standard disclaimer that of course there are also just some nutty, vocal Tumblr users who take this kind of thing too far and get really vicious about it, and those kids need to stop.)

[(Anonymous)]

The thing is, a lot of the people who so aggressively latch onto trans headcanons nowadays are not actually trans people who want representation, it's cis girls who think they're being so ~progressive~ by following the newest trend. And they are the ones trying to silence actual trans people by telling them "this is not what being trans is". And it sucks.

I also feel like people seriously overestimate the amount of trans people in this world. Yes, a step onto tumblr or some choice LGBTQ+ platforms may make you think that the world is full of trans people, but it's really just a teensy tiny percentage. I understand that there should be some representation of trans people in media and I agree with that. But how would it be realistic (for lack of a better word) to have every media teeming with trans people when there actually aren't that many of them in RL?