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⌈ Secret Post #3360 ⌋

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[Niche]

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[Rush Hour 1, 2, 3]

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["The Bride Was A Boy" manga]

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[J.K. Rowling]

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[Pretty Little Liars]

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[Twin Peaks]

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[The Walking Dead/The Flash]

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(GIRLS)

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[The Grinder]

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[Pokemon]

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[Lord of the Rings]

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[Babylon 5, Tolkien, Star Wars, Harry Potter]

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[Star Wars: The Force Awakens]

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[Pete Seeger]

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Do...do you realize how ridiculous you sound?

"What does the fact that it's a a white, middleclass, straight heterosexual guy have to do with anything? It's like you want stories about other people for tokenism or something." Reframe exactly what you said and then think about it.

No. Asking the media to acknowledge the fact that trans women aren't all ultra-passing, hard femme, straight as an arrow, and destined to marry cisgender men isn't tokenism. I have so many lesbian trans friends who literally broke down crying when they saw the representation on Sense8. (And it's sad that it basically took a presumed lesbian/bisexual trans woman (Lily Wachowski) to get that representation on the air.) It's not "tokenism" to want to see yourself represented.

do you realize how ridiculous YOU sound? are you going to actually answer the question the other anon posed? should passing trans women just shut up and not tell their stories because it contributes to what you see as a singular narrative?

As someone who is never represented in media, darling, you're NOT entitled to representation.

Diversity is important. Nobody is saying otherwise. But it shouldn't be an excuse to denounce any single representation, because they all exist. We shouldn't be telling anybody that their story isn't worth telling on account of other people existing. That's why I call it tokenism, because it's saying that what we have isn't valid. Don't negate anybody just because others need to be seen too.

And you just repeated white despite the character being Japanese.

She's not white. Are you crazy? Light skin has been a beauty ideal for over a thousand years in Japan. She's not white, she's a Japanese woman doing her own story, and it isn't white washing.

Do you understand that Japan is a different place? That it's in Asia? The people in manga are Japanese, or 99% of them are. They may look whiter than they are in reality because they're drawn on white or beige paper, like every character in a black & white comic book. Do you have some kind of mental illness that makes you unable to grasp this?

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