The one person who was insistent on misgendering Galore and Pipp really rubbed me the wrong way. The "angry lesbian" comment alongside all their "happily bisexuals" too, but I can't tell if they were self-referring or calling one of their own characters that. Misgendering is gross and weird no matter who it's done towards, and lesbians can be happy too. Wtf is that person's deal?
Their "Just look at Galore/Pipp! They're clearly..." annoyed me, but I don't see anything wrong with genderbending (and/or trans) headcanons for cis characters. It's not the same as misgendering a real person. I mind when it starts to sound like gender essentialism ("I think this male character is a woman because he likes flowers/is nurturing/etc."), and in the same vein, you shouldn't gender- or cisbend(?) canonically trans characters. It's too close to what happens in real life.
Galore is an edge case, I think, because he is not not cis.
When asked what Galore identifies as, the response was "Galore is Galore" and "Galore is a dragon" and that his pronouns are He/Him.
But apparently his art is very feminine to some people so some folks have made up their own headcanons about him, and some folks got really weird about it. The one individual in the pronoun thread said something to the extent of 'Look at her! She's the single most feminine NPC on the site! She *HAS* to be a woman!'
The thread was locked before I saw it, but I really wanted to answer that one. THE most feminine presenting people I know, like outrageously, outspokenly, GLORIOUSLY femme - are all gay men, who identify as men, just femme ones. And I love them all for it. Though they can be as insistent as that poster on what "feminine" really is, which is upsetting for those of us who have been relentlessly mocked over the years for not being the socially-acceptable kind of girls and women :/
The absolute insistence from that poster that the NPCs are OBVIOUSLY this or that "just look at them!", even in contradiction of what the creators intended, was really, really annoying frankly.
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Re: aaaaa pronouns so scary
(Anonymous) 2023-08-19 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)Re: aaaaa pronouns so scary
(Anonymous) 2023-08-20 09:01 am (UTC)(link)Galore is an edge case, I think, because he is not not cis.
Re: aaaaa pronouns so scary
(Anonymous) 2023-08-20 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)Re: aaaaa pronouns so scary
(Anonymous) 2023-08-20 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)But apparently his art is very feminine to some people so some folks have made up their own headcanons about him, and some folks got really weird about it. The one individual in the pronoun thread said something to the extent of 'Look at her! She's the single most feminine NPC on the site! She *HAS* to be a woman!'
Re: aaaaa pronouns so scary
(Anonymous) 2023-08-20 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)Re: aaaaa pronouns so scary
(Anonymous) 2023-08-20 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)The absolute insistence from that poster that the NPCs are OBVIOUSLY this or that "just look at them!", even in contradiction of what the creators intended, was really, really annoying frankly.