What do you think abt Jax? She was confirmed trans woman and ik you don't want to hear about Jax you did say it's okay to ask so. Im asking.
Okay this is going to be a long post because I have so many gripes about this character.
I think Jax is pretty terrible trans rep. I can agree that while I think the queer coding was obvious, Jax is a closeted self hating queer. But when it comes to her being transgender I think the whole idea went downhill from there.
First off I was angry at the discourse surrounding what type of trans she was. She's been confirmed transfemspec by the creator, but before some people thought she was actually stealth transmascspec. And their was so much fucking hatred on both sides for either opinion.
Jax was extremely misogynistic. Jax was extremely abusive. And trans people CAN be both of those, I mean, Gooseworx herself has made numerous misogynistic comments and jokes so we all know it's possible. But because Jax was a self insert and was constantly let off the hook I began seeing a rise in "omg Jax is so relatable" in a way they took comfort in. Like people happily relating to Bojack Horseman.
The reveal of her being trans in the show was seriously just bow = girl and the Isn’t She Lovely song playing in the background. For the character who's VA has routinely used the n-slur (yes the actual full out slur not just the near slur everyone was on about 3 months ago) and for a racist creator. Plus the race blind casting, cmon if like 5 of the characters are canonically people of color would it KILL Gooseworx to not have an all white cast? I thought yall wanted to stick it to Disney come on glitch give people of color a voice!
Jax isn't voiced by a trans woman either! If you can't even hire us to play us then you shouldn't be writing us imo but to each their own.
They keep milking the maid dress merch, so much so that maid Jax has more merch than the non binary character total. And the whole point of the joke was "ooh man in a dress" and it felt transmisogynistic. People also took the discomfort as gender dysphoria as a trans man being feminized once again, so IF Jax was transmasc it would be transphobic to keep putting them in dresses and girly things being they were so distrssed by it.
And finally this is just pettiness on my end but Jax being not a man felt like some sort of checkmate. Oh, you were mad this male character was constantly harassing women and non binary people? Well guess what, she's a woman! Try and complain now, suckas!
People try and say that she's this big, deep, and complex character but she did it to herself. She had every opportunity to get better and to be better but she never took it. And the fans didn't care, they spent the whole time blaming Ribbit, blaming Gangle, blaming Ragatha. Jax abused them, isolated them, tormented them and when they pushes back suddenly she was the victim. All of Jax's suffering was self inflicted and she brought down herself all on her own. Although I think Gangle's reaction to her death felt very real, I don’t like how they pushed the forgive your abuser rhetoric onto her. I'm an ex Mormon and I remember being told that all the time it's so unhelpful for a victim of abuse to be told that constantly.
Finally after her voice actor was being racist everywhere and everyone blew it off, glitch released the reversable Jax bonnet and Jax plushies beating a Black woman with batons 😐 just a joke my ass I say.
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