Anonymous asked:
I've seen a lot of people complain about the fact that Gooseworx kept Jax' trans identity very vague in the show itself and only confirmed it on twitter after the fact. I feel like this criticism was more justified back in the 2010s when a certain shitty author would "confirm" her characters as gay without there being any implications of that in the original work.
Is this actually something worth criticising when it's a trans woman representing herself and her own experiences?
cd-call-official-blog answered:
It's funny how other creators can just reveal shit on Twitter and in interviews or livestreams but the moment a trans woman does it everyone's got a bug up their ass.
doomsayersrequiem
It's not even a writer revealing something on twitter thing
In like the 3rd episode, Jax says "I'm just a little chicken fetus in an egg that needs to 8e cracked open.", and in the 6th, a character has her wear a maid dress and she keeps it on for way longer than she has to "ironically"
zitongzi
People who can squeeze subtext out of a rock when it comes to giving reasons why two men are gay suddenly need it explicitly spelled out in the show and can't understand subtext when it comes to a character veing a trans woman
awawawawa-type-girl
I got the fucking subtext just fine I just hate the fucking undeniable fact that no matter WHO does the storytelling it always has to be fucking hints and hushed whispers and almost-confessions and "oh-anyone-can-tell" (every single person who isn't transfem doesn't notice) like. Can we say the words? Can we say the fucking words? A quick, straightforward, "I wish I were a woman"? Can we? Is it allowed? Or am I not allowed to want that because *checks notes* fujoshis exist?
cd-call-official-blog
This is a reasonable complaint to have when it's a cis person writing it, not when it's another trans person writing it with a very specific kind of character in mind. Especially not when you're being extremely selective about when you're going to complain about it.
Sit the fuck down.