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It me! R4t-sp4t (rat-spat). Hello! Fandom account to keep the clutter off my main art account, a liiiittle bit snarky, very anti "pro/anti" shipping discorse so please bring your nuance if you wish to engage with that, more political posts and reblogs here too. My chitchat tag is #ratphomet ramble! I'll update this if and when I have more to say lol. Enjoy!
If you believe trans men are "only" seen as confused girls then you are, more likely than not, willfully ignoring the transmasculine experience. Trans men and mascs have been talking for years and years about how there is more to it than that.
First, there's the ignorance about what being treated as a "confused girl" means. It means being infantilized, it means being institutionalized, it means having your body autonomy stripped from you, it means being put in your place through rape and abuse, it means being property, it means forced to become a wife and mother. Thats what happens when you're a "confused girl".
Second, the "confused girl" stereotype dwindles the more masculine a trans man/masc becomes. Then he's dangerous. He's a predator; here to steal your daughters away to become hysterical, defective, unfuckable things like himself. He's going to take her fertility, her beauty, her ability to contribute to "proper" society. He's invading women's spaces. He's tricking straight women into being lesbians and gay men into being straight. He is past the point of no return; he can no longer be "fixed"; he must be killed.
To ignore these; to assert that trans men and mascs are "only" seen as confused girls, are never seen as predators, is contributing to systemic transmasculine erasure. Do better.
A small collection of background character noses. So no one can tell you the nose changes are due to the art style. // Pequeña recopilación de narices de personajes de fondo. Para que no les digan que el cambio de narices es por el estilo artistico
Saying that trans men being feminine is more accepted than us being masculine is feels.. inaccurate. Even in queer spaces we are called slurs, fetishized and invalidated for not conforming to rigid gender norms. Every caricature of trans men are us when we’re pre everything or "clocky", with the implication that we are either confused girls or "transtrenders" that don't want to try and just want to feel 'special'. I won't deny that not having traditionally masculine presentation has been destigmatized, or that the existence of fem trans men has been weaponized to convince others to not be "too masculine", I just want to point out that we still get shit for being feminine, even when it's not a choice.
i dont see a lot of people mention this but i think we need to talk abt how amab nonbinary people are affected also by transandrophobia. like the inherent mistrust and transvestigation ("egg cracking") ive seen so many face is so backwards i hate it
(id like for amab enbys to add to this post w their experiences tho since i am not but pls add onto this)
saw someone tell trans men to "make their own post"
on a post about, by, and for trans men.
the idea that kink is somehow safe from critique and prejudice or harm is so fucking funny. ah yes bodies, desire, and power, three things that have famously never been utilized in harmful ways. great news everyone yes we are all existing in complex systems of oppression and violence BUT!!!!!! it’s on pause when we are horny
i have an issue with the take that toph being masc while liking dudes is wrong.
like, generally speaking, why are we treating masculinity in women who like men as some dirty stain or a rot? why does femininity have to be the one humanizing and dignifying trait for women? and why are we validating the idea that all women who are into men have to be submissive, softer, receptive and nurturing?
i hate how the discourse around female characters is reduced to "they should be allowed femininity." bc it's basically using "femininity" to mean "female," in a sense that it perpetuates bio-essentialism. sure, that sentiment can be relevant with some female characters, but it is not like if a female character is not feminine that's somehow bad.
I keep thinking about Encanto. And while I undoubtedly really like it, it's the best Disney's had in 5 fucking years, I still have my issues with it, particularly the last act.
Now I don't hate Isabela, but I have a hard time consistently liking her due to the fact she never apologizes for how she, as a 21 year old woman, treated her scapegoated and, for the intents and purposes of this movie, disabled, 15 year old sister. She acts like Mirabel is lucky to not have powers and that she (Mirabel) should just give up on trying to be recognized by her family. Because apparently being shunned, treated as a bit of a burden for being powerless, and being left out is oh so fun and desirable.
I read someone's reblog of an Encanto post I made previously that pre "What Else Can I Do" Isabela seems like the type to call the disabled family member lucky for being left out and alone because they're disabled. And it's harsh but that's honestly what I feel like she did. And regular movie length is not at all long enough for what they were trying to do with all the family members' issues with Alma's expectations of them.
Now I'm not one to believe that Mirabel actually forgave Alma, but more that she understands what Alma went through to end up the way she did. And Alma did thankfully end up apologizing to Mirabel. But a common criticism I agree with is how Bruno's resolution with Alma went. It was way too fast. Bruno being reintroduced to the family? Too fast. But you know why that's a problem. He was already shunned before Mirabel and it's barely acknowledged in the final song. Normal movie length is not enough time to cover all of that.
But I more so wanted to talk about Isabela because it's pretty contentious to talk about disliking her behavior in any way because people will just accuse you of being a misogynist and hating complex female characters.
remembering why I don’t check the encanto tag on here anymore good lord. Isabela madrigal ableist headcanons in the big 2026
She very much does bully Mirabel. I'm not saying you can't like her and it is part of her character arc to see Mirabel for who she is but you can't act like there's no basis to this. Genuinely what's so yikes about this other than "I like her"
And I never said Encanto was problematic. I said if they're going to write Isabela like this, then they needed more time than standard kids movie length to tackle it along with everything else. My problem is that Mirabel and Isabela's relationship still feels one sided and unresolved.
I keep thinking about Encanto. And while I undoubtedly really like it, it's the best Disney's had in 5 fucking years, I still have my issues with it, particularly the last act.
Now I don't hate Isabela, but I have a hard time consistently liking her due to the fact she never apologizes for how she, as a 21 year old woman, treated her scapegoated and, for the intents and purposes of this movie, disabled, 15 year old sister. She acts like Mirabel is lucky to not have powers and that she (Mirabel) should just give up on trying to be recognized by her family. Because apparently being shunned, treated as a bit of a burden for being powerless, and being left out is oh so fun and desirable.
I read someone's reblog of an Encanto post I made previously that pre "What Else Can I Do" Isabela seems like the type to call the disabled family member lucky for being left out and alone because they're disabled. And it's harsh but that's honestly what I feel like she did. And regular movie length is not at all long enough for what they were trying to do with all the family members' issues with Alma's expectations of them.
Now I'm not one to believe that Mirabel actually forgave Alma, but more that she understands what Alma went through to end up the way she did. And Alma did thankfully end up apologizing to Mirabel. But a common criticism I agree with is how Bruno's resolution with Alma went. It was way too fast. Bruno being reintroduced to the family? Too fast. But you know why that's a problem. He was already shunned before Mirabel and it's barely acknowledged in the final song. Normal movie length is not enough time to cover all of that.
But I more so wanted to talk about Isabela because it's pretty contentious to talk about disliking her behavior in any way because people will just accuse you of being a misogynist and hating complex female characters.
I'm noticing a pattern in the characters I tend to be critical of or just flat out dislike
Jax's psyche is now the main focus of the show, and we're supposed to coo over a rebirth to womanhood "less than one minute old" 🎵 before tragic suicide allegory. Her abusive misogynistic behavior is framed as part of her egghood, and isn't unpacked. She just kinda dies for her own sins and half-repents at the last second - which is enough to redeem you if you're Christian, but not if you're a good writer. I'm aware Goose has said somewhere in her million tweets that she wrote/views Jax as unredeemable, but IMO her writing is not sending that message.
I hate to pull the "as a trans person" card, but Jax is not good trans rep (good rep, not positive rep. Note my wording.). This is "we should excuse abusive people because we don't know what they've been through," relabeled as a more reasonable "let trans characters be real, morally complicated people, too! Transitioning is messy!"
Morally complicated characters (or even straight up evil ones) take good writing to pull off properly, if your audience is to feel meaningful sympathy for them. I'm not saying Jax was written "too evil" and should've been written to do less harm, but that writing harmful characters takes a careful balance of framing by the writer. Framing that doesn't baby the audience by jumping from horrible actions straight to an uncomplicated redemption with little to no buildup, and unrealistically positive reactions from the cast (or even none at all). Or, in the opposite emotional direction, framing that doesn't rely on tugging heartstrings with a tragic backstory as a full replacement for well-written explanations and consequences of their character's behaviour.
Gooseworx has somehow done both of these things in her framing of Jax. We're shown purposeful social isolation and gaslighting of someone to the point of driving them to suicide - but only from the abuser's POV. Then a primary focus on how the abuser is trans, was abused, and is suffering sooooo much. The message from this framing is that we should feel bad for her first before thinking about the harm done, because we didn't know what she was going through. A flashback iMovie top ten highlight reel and therapy dog audience insert character's exploration of Jax's Amazing Digital Mind Palace replaced any invitation to reflect on how we actually felt about her character up until the crazy lore drop. We are only invited to feel what the lore drop and feel-bad sequence tells us to. Therapy dog jester gets violently choked out and has little to no reaction to that or anything in JADMP apart from wanting to just be there for him :(((((. The closest we get is the abuser giving an "oh, cruel world" lament that feels more genuinely self-pitying than reflective, ironic, or consequential.
"We've 💖 all 💖 done bad things." Imagine that line being written with full authorial sincerity in Bojack Horseman. It'd feel off as hell, because the audience of that show is actually trusted to feel sympathy for the protagonist without excusing his behaviour. The framing of that show says yes, he was abused, that's horrible, but fuck that guy. We invite you to reflect on the information you've been shown about his actions, personality, patterns of behaviour, and ongoing development. Think about it yourself when other characters react differently, messily, and reasonably by leaving Bojack behind, distancing themselves, or even dying as a consequence to his actions - no iMovie feel-sad clip telling you what to think. "We've all done bad things" lmao fuck right off with that nothingburger platitude. Pomni is a Sith.
Jax's abstraction was not framed as a consequence of her abusive behaviour, and the link between the two is removed by one degree: abstraction -> because egghood and trauma -> abusive also because egghood and trauma. Goose's framing was not a clear: abstraction -> because she's abusive - so the narrative never primarily confronts or invites discourse about Jax's morality. Which is the selling point of writing morally complex (especially main???) characters. The narrative pretty much skips to "We've 💖 all 💖 done bad things” and asks us to focus on The Amazing Digital Transfem Experience.
Tell me how a transphobe would watch this and not feel justified. Here's a physically abusive trans woman who actively targets vulnerable AFAB* people. It's framed so that we're supposed to feel sorry for her even when watching a highlight reel of her doing it. A trans woman wrote this narrative and tweets questionable things with an invisible load-bearing “/s”. Kids watch the show. Insert TERFy spiralling about saving the women and children from dangerous perverted trans women. Sure, TERFs aren't the best measure of whether or not something is good trans rep (they tend to hallucinate beliefs into existence the way AI does), fuck respectability politics. But this isn't respectability politics. This is bad representation, and bad representation is harmful. A trans person creating popular media (labeled as progressive trans rep) that reinforces transphobic beliefs/stereotypes with its framing is definitely something to unpack.
*Is AFAB a TERF dogwhistle? I don't know 100% if that's something commonly agreed upon now.
This show turned into accountability-free sympathy bait for a character with lower EQ than... a baby less than one minute old. Woobify your abusers, bury your gays, get a Netflix deal. Go figure.
You know, even if we could objectively measure suffering and oppression, it would still be a dick move to tell someone that they can't talk about what they're going through because you have it worse.
Something that really bothers me about the "fiction doesn't affect reality" crowd is how nobody ever seems to acknowledge how fiction can change people's realities for the better. It isn't just a negative thing, it can also be positive! So on top of being not true because bigoted media exists, it's also weirdly pessimistic in a way I don't like
I've also seen people say "fiction only affects your reality if you're stupid" and now we're just getting ableist
what im learning from my years of being one of the annoying woke black people on here is that a Lot of white and nonblack people really do not understand what racism is and what it has done to African Americans. like when we learn abt it in schools they dont really tell you abt the mass rape and genocide and torture of Africans by white slave owners, they dont talk abt the murder of babies and the cannibalism either. its all in The Past so we should just get over it, lol. and then when nonamerican's colonial past gets brought up they start throwing tantrums too, because antiblackness is a global thing, many countries have exploited Africa and its people. this isnt unique to one nation. its so funny how all these Smart Communists are so ignorant abt racism in america and globally, and then when black leftist/progressive tumblr users try to say anything abt their real actual Lived Experiences as Black people its met with dismissal and hatred and condescension and Um, Actually, im not from america, can you talk to me like im 5 about racism please :) and if youre anything but Nice they will call you a slur
this is what you wanted, right?
person who posted the uterus tattoo blocked me for having this take
i thought this take would be so lukewarm but i guess not
