[ SECRET POST #4943 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4943 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

While googling genderbending, I saw tumblrina posts about how gender-bending is transphobic and you are a terrible person if you do genderbending.

The stupidest thing about it? All trans friends I have love genderbending, and it was how they came to the realization they were trans.

I say this as a native hispanic person, sometimes it feels like they're mad for the same reason people got mad at Speedy Gonzales. We love the exploration and representation, but then there's some Karen getting mad on our behalf...

[(Anonymous)]

I mean I get the logic behind it, the weird "there are exactly two genders and they're both cis people" implication that often comes with genderbend content

but The Discourse™ loves to exaggerate "I am concerned about X for a few reasons" into "X is HitlerSatan 9001 and if you like it you should die immediately"

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

It is why I stay the hell away from a lot of social media. I was going to say neither tumblr nor twitter are sites for nuance, but neither are Facebook, Instagram, or anything else with moderatorless masses of users.

One thing I keep thinking about is a roleplay I made with a few friends, in which I had your standard male badass turned into a female magical girl. At first, I had written it as a joke with only two partners, but kept the personality as close to the original as I could, remembering they were still a highly capable and focused person that learns on the spot. And... that character ended up teaching me a lot about identity.

Something I had initially written as a joke eventually became a concept I absolutely loved to play, even in serious plots, choosing even to explain why the genderbending happens often. The personality did not change. Only the pronoun and the tools the character used or sometimes chose to wear. The character was every bit as competent and heroic in that new body as in the old one, and slowly accepted both states of being as one and the same. The character became stronger, both physically and emotionally.

And while genuinely enjoying playing that genderbending in which the character accepted both states, I came to ponder about my own gender, as well. Sometimes I felt the same. Sometimes I've realized I'm on a male point of view, and on others I'm comfortable with a female one.

I mean... I understand when even shows like Futurama have genderbending playing with absolute stereotypes. But then you have stuff like Adventure Time in which it explores a female Finn. I consider genderbending a form of transformation fiction. In the end, I believe it is a way to explore who we are as people, even when written for fanservice.