Why is Twelve Forever transphobic? It’s a metaphor for puberty?
Anonymous
It plays a woman having a deep voice as a joke, and then makes the claim that she represents “confusion.” As if women with deep voices are “confused.”This isn’t something like Transcendent, where the deep voice is the jumping off point and tweaking a transphobe who won’t control his kids’ sexual harassment is the punchline. The joke starts and ends with “lol woman with deep voice.”And here’s the rub:imageHave you guys ever noticed that a “metaphor for puberty” always seems to accompany hyper-sexualized designs and lingering shots on a feminine figure? There’s never jokes about cracking voices, or body odor, or cramps. No, it’s always how a feminine body becomes more curvy and how that causes Feelings™ and Power™.“Metaphor for puberty” is sounding a lot more like “she breathes through her skin.”I wasn’t born yesterday. This is pure fucking perviness. The creators of these shows are pervs and they like finding excuses to draw ass-shots because they’re horny pervs. But rather than make a 14-A show where they can be as pervy as they like, they shovel it into a children’s show with pretensions toward being About Something™ so they can be perverts in front of kids.Sex Ed is handled in school for a reason. Saturday Morning cartoons are not the place for it. These people are just trying to have their cake and fuck it too. They’re looking for a cheeky wank while telling themselves it’s more than just a cheeky wank.I mean the Crewniverse has openly admitted that they’re not bothered by porn of the SU characters because “What they make is a lot worse.” They just admit to making wank material on Cartoon Network’s dime. And the avalanche of cartoon producers either treating child pornography as a light-hearted goof, or having made it themselves makes all of this more and more disturbing.You can’t look at all of that and then tell me that “The Butt Witch” has no connection to it whatsoever. You can’t actually tell me, that after years of creators making excuses about “empowerment” or “realism” to justify making female characters constantly have their tits hanging out that the excuse of “it’s a metaphor” actually means anything.You can’t be that fucking naive.
…Why did Earth want to nuke the Val’kyr? What could the Val’kyr possibly have done to Earth?
Anonymous
They were there and that’s what Earth does
If I recall they showed up unannounced and didn’t do anything to suggest they weren’t hostile. And Earth wound up being right cause the Val’Kyr destroyed Earth.
Would teenagers (16 and up) having sex with other teens their age in literature be a bad thing? Like, would it be considered unnecessary sexualization of teens?
Anonymous
Conceptually, no.If you’re writing sex scenes for them, yes.Let’s clear something up right now: If you think you need that sex scene, you don’t. Stop being weird and write like a normal person.
The no drama mentality has been spreading all over so many fandoms lately. It’s almost hilarious how adults with big audiences cry bullying when a handful of people even so much as dare to tell them what they’re doing is damaging/problematic. Teens who speak are mostly the ones forced to shut up too and gaslit into thinking they’re the reason why fandoms are messed up.
Anonymous
I will never forget how a massive crybaby threatened to sue me because I told him to stop posting videos with pedophiles in them.
In fact, despite that I still wouldn’t call them Mary Sues. Characters like Rey and Anakin and Revan are characters that Star Wars is built around. Force Users are intended to be powerful, even when they aren’t fully trained. This is par for the course. You know who the real Mary Sues are? The Voidhound. Cipher Nine. Meteor. That chick with the Pretentious Karate. Basically any instance where a ‘Badass Normal’ shows up and wipes the floor with Force Users for pretty much no reason other than the lulz. The characters that are made by aging baby boomers who haven’t quite internalized that nobody likes Boba Fett as much as they do.
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