Someone wrote in [community profile] anonrerising 2023-08-19 02:29 pm (UTC)

Re: aaaaa pronouns so scary

Yea, I agree with most of your argument.

There are a lot of 'woke' cis girls on FR who obsess over trans people and their lives to an unhealthy and objectifying degree, who also obsess over attempting to clock NPC's to an disturbing degree. The same thing happened with that aquarius familiar, where to many users were calling the character nonbinary or genderfluid based on physical traits and anatomy alone which was just...gross. Trans people have come so far to distance society from chaser behavior like that. And I'm well aware of their obsession over Avery for not looking 'cis' enough to them in dress or physicality or whatever aspect they fixate on.
The fact that you get this group of people going to war with others over pronoun correction, over genders they /made up/ for these NPC's, is not only embarrassing but also harmful toward trans visibility. It makes acknowledging /actual/ trans lives appear as a game to play for woke points for these people, and does not make a good impression for allies. This behavior is not, in any way, genuine activism, and it makes fun of people who are actually trying to advance trans rights and recognition in a respectful way.

I will mention though that Fiona is a girl. Transfemme should not be used in place of woman if the character is binary trans. I've read many opinions from trans women who think that term reduces their legitimacy when they are separated from cis women in language.

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