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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-08-15 06:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #2417 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2417 ⌋

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dumb question time

(Anonymous) 2013-08-16 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
I've never seen this phenomenon, and whenever it's mentioned I don't know if people are taking a character who's presented as one gender and interpreting them as assigned the other gender at birth, or if they're interpreting the character as trans* but closeted or pre-transition.
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Re: dumb question time

[personal profile] kamino_neko 2013-08-16 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
When I've seen it (mostly about male characters) it's about 50/50.

(Also, I learned from one such discussion, that a lot of people still don't know the differences between drag queens, transvestites, and people who are trans*...)

Re: dumb question time

(Anonymous) 2013-08-16 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
please tell me that the people who were clueless weren't also the people headcanoning a character as trans*.
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Re: dumb question time

[personal profile] kamino_neko 2013-08-16 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
The discussion wouldn't have happened in the first place if they weren't.

Re: dumb question time

(Anonymous) 2013-08-16 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
arrrghhhh no that is the dumbest oh my god

I'm so sorry.

Re: dumb question time

(Anonymous) 2013-08-16 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
In this case they're interpreting the character as closeted/pre-transition.

And ... I feel like I see trans headcanons being "this character is closeted/pre-transition" much more often. I don't know if that's actually the case, but that's my impression. (And tbh that kind of bugs me)

Re: dumb question time

(Anonymous) 2013-08-16 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
ayrt

yeah I understand that young people use fandom to explore and get comfortable with themselves, but if it's perpetuating these kind of gender stereotypes it makes me uncomfortable...