#because of his Themes. but while half of people do interpret him as trans vis a vis snakeskins triumphing over conventional expectations etc | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

daisyachain · 3 months ago

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If I had a nickel for every time I saw a romantic interpretation of a pair of male characters where the smaller, weaker, younger, less composed of the two was portrayed as a transmasculine character. I.

#can we all just Think a moment about whether and why we are replicating transphobic caricatures #sometimes it does happen that a young small physically weak and/or emotionally open man in a work of fiction has a story that resonates #with themes of intellect dominating physical form or general societal alienation or illusions and facades or personal unreadability #what gets really annoying it the constant association of negative ‘feminine’ traits with transmasculinity.#can we not have the cool dude be trans instead if we had to choose. or both.#kelsey rambles #sgt jack jackrum we’re really in it now.#it also works the other way. eg the character of the Bachelor is of a brusque unibrowed man with an unlikely fighting spirit #he gets dumbed down to a light yagami esque effeminate misogynist and referred to by your casual fan as ‘bitchy’#while also being frequently read as a trans guy.#this is saying that the bachelor is a characrer with an almost stereotypical masculinity (the professor) who reads well as trans man #because of his Themes. but while half of people do interpret him as trans vis a vis snakeskins triumphing over conventional expectations etc #the other half just look at the high heels and call it a day.

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