#matrix trans allegory

[libraryleopard]

me going off to see i saw the tv glow: not sure what this is really going to be like but it looks interesting!

me walking out of i saw the tv glow: oh okay so it's the matrix for trans girls who really liked buffy the vampire slayer

[an-adhd-infested-nerd]

If there’s one thing I’m gonna do I’m gonna defend things that conservative straight males took over after completely missing the point

[flyin-shark]

Do it coward

[ankh-morporkianpostalworker]

As a society, we should've stopped making movies after The Matrix, cuz it's got everything.

Guns

Kung Fu

Keanu Reeves

Lawrence Fishburne

Mystical Chosen Ones

Leather everywhere

The Late 90s Corporate Hellscape

Cyberpunk Aspects

Trans Allegories

Hugo Weaving

Carrie-Anne Moss

Slow-motion Action Sequences

Anime Influences

Unsubtle but still cool names like Neo, Morpheus, Trinity and The Oracle

The Oracle

Philosophy

It was perfect.

[timuera]

[aemiron-main]

im not worried about the ga finding out about the gayness in st (ie byler endgame) at this point/them getting mad over it. what i AM worried (aka also excited about) is when the ga finds out about all of the trans/weird gender stuff in this show. esp with the matrix being confirmed inspo + the whole "henry creel isnt a chick" thing in tfs and patty vs patrick and the line "a boy like me" playing over a scene of karen wheeler putting on lipstick in s3 (lipstick that's the same colour as patty's lipstick in tfs that henry specifically points out). like im not saying patty karen etc are trans but i AM saying that theres some funky matrix-esque allegorical trans and twinner gender swap etc or smthn stuff going on here.

i can already see the headlines once people start to catch onto it- "WOKER THINGS?? MICHAELA WHEELER???? IS STRANGER THINGS MAKING YOUR KIDS TRANSGENDER? A Look Inside Netflix's Big Pharma Big Hit"

[rotzaprachim]

I think Ramiro 1899 being Jewish is something that I thought of as a joke before it swallowed me whole but Ramiro 1899 being trans is something that genuinely could have likely been canonical in later seasons

[gothambelfry]

I need to watch Lisa Frankenstein again. My t4t freaks.

[goober-37]

Just watched Matrix Reloaded and forgot how much I am OBSESSED with that fight scene on the freeway. First off, everyone’s outfits are so cunty I love it. Second, the techno music fucking slays like I can’t ✋. Third, it’s such an insane fight sequence I literally start foaming at the mouth y’all. Please if yall have never watched the original 3 movies, PLEASE tune in it’s absolutely worth the watch. The fight sequences are absurd but glorious, the outfits are serving, and in general it’s an excellent sci-fi franchise.

Matrix my beloved trilogy (we don’t talk about the 4th movie) that was completely misinterpreted by certain groups of people 🫶

[happyoldqueer]

As much as The Matrix was a trans allegory, it was also an allegory about Anarchy. Cypher didn't just want to go back into the matrix to forget he was trans, he wanted to go back to Liberalism and believe that the system and the police were there to assist and protect him. He wanted to go back to being a White liberal.

[pyrobot1cs]

transfem sollux is fun because she’s the matrix troll (red and blue, programming) and we all know whatTHAT means

[aubstacle-of-course]

“[Keanu] Reeves said a recent conversation about “The Matrix” with a 15-year-old put things into a terrifying perspective. The actor explained to the teenager that his character, Neo, is fighting for what’s real. The teenager scoffed and said, “Who cares if it’s real?”

Didn’t wanna take over the og post so I’m excerpting here, but this reminded me how as a child I went down a whole philosophical spiral about the nature of reality after watching the matrix at age 6, and what made “reality” more valid than the reality of the matrix.

Call me a metaphysical/subjective idealist, but I concluded that one was not necessarily more valid than the other and the issue with the matrix was the oppressive system of control; if the relationship between the humans and machines had been more egalitarian, symbiotic, and consensual there wouldn’t be any inherent moral flaw in the arrangement. If the “real” world is destroyed and horrific, why not live in the alter-world where the pleasures of life may still be enjoyed? (This age 6 insomnia-fueled spiral was also when I began to embrace hedonistic nihilism lol.)

“But your ‘real’ body is wasting away in a goo pit with your bio-energy being leeched” - so? And? I don’t see any moral failing in that sort of existence personally. Fuck that goo pit body tbh, it would be way fucking easier to trans your gender in the matrix.

[dragon-boy-gills]

[thefrostychemist]

Just finally saw The Matrix for the first time but I was high and busy cuddling wolfgirls the whole time and I think that's the real trans allegory.

[dersite-dragons]

when will the day come in which someone will watch the matrix with me and let me pause every three seconds to do a full breakdown of every shot and it's queerness

[luckyfinn72]

hi can someone get me the trans matrix manifesto or smth bc i Need the Trans the Matrix interpretation