[ SECRET POST #2514 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2514 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Excuse me, may I ask what is "gender essentialist"? I get the gist of your comment and agree but that is a new one for me.

[blitzwing]

Gender essentialism is pretty much the idea that men and women have certain inherent differences/traits.

This comes into play, for instance, when people insist that Hanji Zoe from SNK can't be a cis woman, because yanno, tall and flat-chested and likes science. Gotta be a trans* man or non-binary, rite?

It's one of the biggest problems with trans* headcanons. It's almost always the person who is canonly/implied male but has a lot of traditionally/stereotypically 'feminine' traits that gets to be headcanoned as a trans* woman. It's the woman who dresses plainly and is an engineer who gets headcanoned as a trans* man or NB.

Like Armin, the physically weak guy who likes to read and is polite gets headcanoned as a trans* girl way more often than Eren, who's aggressive and speaks more rudely, and is athletic. Society has stereotyped women as more physically weak, submissive and polite, so it's easier for people to headcanon the physically weak, submissive, polite persons as women and the aggressive, ruder ones as men.

Individually there's nothing wrong with these headcanons, it's just the overall trend that's disturbing, especially when you look at it from a panfandom POV. I do think it's wrong that it's being called transphobic/cissexist for people to not like headcanons that are playing into an overall trend of stereotyping.

[(Anonymous)]

oh THAT mindset. DDD:
I didn't know that was the name for that thing; I just counted it as sexism. Thank you. D: