Topic: This nature to claim over create.
+Anonymous A — 1.3 year ago #65,164
I understand the desire to claim a character for your community as a means of making you feel seen and represented within a particular form of media, but sometimes there are characters you just don’t try to fuck with. You don’t have to always have a cis female or a trans female to feel represented.
Samus Aran from the Metroid series was one of those characters. Long believed to have been a male merely on the basis that most video game characters were males. The decision to reveal that she had been a girl this entire time was definitely a fresh take on video games. She also allowed young girls at the time to feel as if they could have a character they say themselves in. She would later go on to prove to me one of the most badass female characters that Nintendo ever made and now people just seem to forget or neglect her. Even Nintendo.
In more recent times, the transgender community, who likely favored the character from their youth, attempted to claim her by starting to put forth the idea that she is transgender. I understand wholeheartedly the desire to have a character relate to your situation, but sometimes you have to leave something alone if it’s not broken. This is a character that should be left alone for the cisgender girls to have.
It’s not as if video games never had representation for the transgender community. Most people would mention Poison from the Final Fight games for whom the creators only fairly recently validated her trans identity. However, one such example of a badass chad trans character is from the game Grandblue Fantasy. Her name is Ladiva and she is a trans woman who while stuck within an overly masculine body radiates a feminine energy so strong that even I do would desire for her to choke me out between her thighs. She is also someone who doesn’t desire gender transitioning because she feels it’ll be disrespectful to her parents to change the body they created for her. She is someone who is what she is. And I think this is a character that a majority of trans women should get behind. Especially those who may not pass all too well in society.
I just don’t understand this need to claim characters who are bad ass on their own instead of creating new bad asses all their own. I’d rather see the creation of more characters like Samus Aran or Ladiva than wonder if Peter Parker is a trans man.
Why are people so fucking stupid?
+Anonymous B — 1.3 year ago, 52 minutes later[T] [B] #653,990
Shut up sir.
·Anonymous A (OP) — 1.3 year ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #653,997
@previous (B)
lol How’d you know?
+Anonymous C — 1.3 year ago, 57 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #654,001
Congratulations on establishing your writing to be set in a specific insignificant period that will soon be forgotten like grains of sand in the desert, swept away by the winds of time. Was it really worth it to be alive?
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·Anonymous A (OP) — 1.3 year ago, 2 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #654,002
@previous (C)
What? Times pass, but the people will always be eternal.
·Anonymous C — 1.3 year ago, 4 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #654,004
@previous (A)
Nope, they will cease to exist a thousand years later. The Internet does forget.
·Anonymous A (OP) — 1.3 year ago, 7 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #654,005
@previous (C)
You do realize that black, brown, gay, and even trans people existed for centuries. Stop being such an insecure little faggot.
·Anonymous C — 1.3 year ago, 14 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #654,006
Subcultural movements are ephemeral while dreams in a traditional sense are eternal, these fads are nothing but mere collective constructs used as social tactics that aren't inherited naturally, but rather, learned and adopted, a stark artificial contrast to the natural and everlasting dreams that reside within our soul. It would be unusual for someone from centuries ago to be as deeply invested in this topic as you currently are. Is this what you'd choose to ruminate on all day that commands your every waking thought? Just turn off the screen and move on, it's not a window to reality when a select few have control over it. Would you rather knit a blanket or talk about trannies?
·Anonymous C — 1.3 year ago, 4 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #654,007
There have always been everyday objects, machinery, weapons, materials and tools more important than political identities, it's like food vs. money.
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·Anonymous A (OP) — 1.3 year ago, 1 minute later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #654,008
@previous (C)
Your identity is political, retard.
·Anonymous C — 1.3 year ago, 2 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #654,010
@previous (A)
Ok, name it without an ad hominem.
·Anonymous A (OP) — 1.3 year ago, 1 hour later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #654,013
@previous (C)
There was no ad hominem. You're just a retard.
+Anonymous D — 1.3 year ago, 8 hours later, 13 hours after the original post[T] [B] #654,036
Because in the modern world anything that is created is immediately dissected and rated based on how it aligns with someone's politics, regardless of whether it has merit or not. Before you even have a chance to play a game there will be articles about how one of the characters is non-binary or something. There really shouldn't be any reporting on developing media besides commissioned advertising, prior to release. (And no, a positive article is not advertising.)
·Anonymous A (OP) — 1.3 year ago, 38 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[T] [B] #654,039
@previous (D)
There are times when those who tend to be seen as outcast get normalized. The gay population has more or less reached this point and it seems as if trans people will as well. Most of the clown arguments seem to relate to non-binary people and gets misplaced toward MTF and FTM. Even those are starting this "new trans" thing.
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