A rant about transfem Jax denial.
Spoilers for The Amazing Digital Circus up to episode 9. Spoilers for Emesis Blue
Jax isn’t transfem in TADC the same way Medic isn’t the Plague Doctor in Emesis Blue or that The Matrix isn’t a trans allegory.
If you actually think that, then you either lack some key bit of information or media literacy to understand why people are saying Jax is transfem, Medic is the Plague Doctor, and The Matrix is a trans allegory. In which case you should realistically be able see why people have come to these conclusions just by listening.
But if you outright refuse to see these as the very very real and valid readings that they are, you’re willfully being obtuse and ignoring everything the media is saying.
Headcanon Jax as transmasc or cis, that doesn’t really matter. Read Jax in TADC through the lens of him being transmasc or cis, you shouldn’t be forced to read it only as transfem and nothing else ever, and the tfem Jax fans that do fight against ppl who headcanon Jax as transmasc or cis or whom express transmasc or cis readings, that is rude and uncalled for behavior. But stop denying the transfem reading of this character. Stop telling others you don’t see it, and then when they tell you why they see it, dig your heals in and refute every bit of it. Stop that.
Because it isn’t directly stated that Medic in Emesis Blue is the Plague Doctor, but if you know that the words “medic” and “doctor” are synonyms for each other—notice that the Plague Doctor has a specific relationship with the Medic that he doesn’t have with anyone else—the Medic and Plague Doctor are not seen at the same time nor in the same place except for in Medics hallucinations—know that the movie M (1931) that Emesis Blue references, depicts a murderer that can’t help himself but to kill because something takes over him Jackal and Hyde style—notice Scout is watching the scene in M (1931) where the murderer is luring an unsuspecting kid to their death, the Medic then wakes up from a sudden onset of sleep not far from where he dropped Scout off, goes into Scouts home, and the movie M (1931) is playing the scene where the murderer expresses that he cannot help himself but to murder literally right in front of Medic—the Spy finding Medics titular bone saw all bloody and at the scene of the crime—also, while we don’t see the Plague Doctor explicitly at the scene of the crime in Scouts house, we can reasonably assume that, with the Pyro of similar color scheme as him being at the crime scene, that he was there, as well as Medic later using the same cut off head trick that the other unseen black color schemed person did—Soldier literally comparing Medic to a sleeper agent (in fiction this is someone who consciously is an ordinary person, but has some hidden persona unbeknownst to them that is a skilled killing machine soldier of war)—you should be able to see that it is a very very real reading of the narrative that the Plague Doctor is a Mr. Hyde to Medics Dr. Jackal. You’d be absolutely obtuse to deny deny deny this. In that same vein, is it not explicitly stated that Jax is transfem specifically, but with them being embarrassed in the maid outfit, not actually hating it, just being embarrassed to basically be outed—the way they strangely fit comfortably into the maid dress once no one is actually paying attention to them about it, and wearing it properly in a manner almost like they’ve warn one before—the TADC merch media CONSTANTLY having Jax cross dress—Jax comparing themself to an egg in a very trans specific way (for someone who is “cis” and doesn’t realize that they’re actually trans—their literal I Saw The TV Glow moment in the final! (ISTTVG is a movie about a closeted trans woman who digs themself so far in denial about their trans identity that only by the end of the movie they reach old age and have a gender crisis and yet they still dig deeper into denial)—and SO SO SO much more. If you hear all that and CONTINUE to deny transfem Jax as a very very real reading of the character, like TBSKYEN says, there are many many possible readings of Jax, but a transfem reading is one of the very very available ones! If you see all this and CONTINUE to deny it, you’re being obtuse and transphobic.
And if you need your media to spell it out for you otherwise you won’t accept it, that is refusing to read beyond a surface level reading, which so much art exists beyond a surface level reading that, again, you’re just being obtuse. Especially if you’re not just actively refusing to see these readings beyond the surface, but also refuting everyone else who is, that’s just ignorant and rude behavior. And if you only refuse to see beyond a surface level reading SPECIFICALLY when it pertains to a transfem character, then your actions are motivated by transphobia.
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