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    im blown away by the fact that you singled that out with a "citation needed" comment and not the fact that i said cho chang is an anagram for weasley time prison

     

    anyway, its all in the books and quite obvious to anyone who doesnt choose to shroud themselves in veils of tangible ignorance

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    cripes tek sorry but i gotta say something to this response im sorry, i hope its still relevant since it involves representation and im kinda speaking from my own pov as a trans person so thats what it all revolves around but yeah sorry for the impending wall of text

     

     

    Okay I have a problem with this statement here. I've kept this quiet for a while but I'll say it now, I don't like the Trans girl Tamara thing. Why? Because I'm a close minded bigot? No not even close. My reason is the evidence supporting it is incredibly flimsy and had some shotty reasoning (Tamaru's name sounds feminine? So does Takua). it also used nonexistent evidence as well. How do we know Tamaru's body build is more feminine or masculine? All the matoran bodies in MNOG II looked the same only varying in color. How do we know Tamaru tried to make his voice sound feminine? The rest is pretty much fanfiction. To see people embrace something because "OMG A TRANS CHARACTER!!" And ignoring how weak the case for the headcanon is just make it worse.


    Also imo Trans Tamaru implies a Trans character can't be their own character. They have to be a pre-existing character, if we apply this to the real world it means a Trans person irl can't make it without the help of a cis person. See how offensive that sounds? So there, before you generalize try looking for pieces of the puzzle and understand the story.

     

    alright look pal as the trans person who came up with the trans tamaru headcanon im at an absolute loss as to why youre feeling the need to nitpick so hard at that specifically. since this is an entry about representation i think im going to put in my two cents, as a trans person

     

    > Why? Because I'm a close minded bigot? No not even close. 

     

    im going to stop you right there and tell you that its not really your place to decide whether or not youre being a good person in this regard because if you just up and decide "oh, im a good person already" then it shuts you out from learning to be an even better person.

     

    anyway that said

     

     

    > My reason is the evidence supporting it is incredibly flimsy and had some shotty reasoning (Tamaru's name sounds feminine? So does Takua). it also used nonexistent evidence as well. How do we know Tamaru's body build is more feminine or masculine? All the matoran bodies in MNOG II looked the same only varying in color. How do we know Tamaru tried to make his voice sound feminine? The rest is pretty much fanfiction.

     

    youre uh. yeah youre using headcanon material to sit there and shut down a thing thats ... a headcanon ... ? you might think the canon reasoning used is flimsy but? i didnt?

     

    also, you cant say tamaru DIDNT do those things. because its all headcanon. fanfiction. we can argue til the cows come home but the fact remains that you cant prove these things didnt happen, and yet youre still adamant on it

     

     

    > To see people embrace something because "OMG A TRANS CHARACTER!!" And ignoring how weak the case for the headcanon is just make it worse.

     

    have you ever considered that maybe a lot of the people supporting the headcanon were trans people? we get like almost no positive representation at all? nobody cares about evidence because the headcanon literally isnt hurting anyone

     

    ans also, relying on "visible evidence" for someone being trans, even a fictional character, is kinda really bad? because youre sitting here relying on tropes and stereotypes on how trans people should act and thus are basing your entire opinion on that.

     

     

    > Also imo Trans Tamaru implies a Trans character can't be their own character. They have to be a pre-existing character, if we apply this to the real world

     

    this is literally the most rotten tripe ive seen all week tbh. just because someone headcanons an existing character as trans it doesnt magically make them a different character

     

    youre literally saying "if we apply this to the real world" when buddy guess what, it already does. let me get real irl personal here: i distinctly remember like. a couple weeks ago? i literally heard my mom crying in the other room because she still thinks that because because my brother and i are both trans, she had to "bury her kids". she literally thinks we somehow replaced her old kids or something and like were entirely new people. everyone else in my family is also particularly dead set on calling me by my birthname and referring to me as male because ill always be "their little boy" to them. as if i am an entirely new person

     

    i hate to tell you this pal, but that thing literally happens all the time in real life to trans people everywhere

     

    anyway, i also hate the fact that youre implying its on the shoulders of people seeking representation to just make their own, because  (1) that doesnt always work because someone doing that usually ends up attracting hate from the majority and  (2) it should already be up to the creators of popular content to do that as well, because then more people will see it and be able to relate to it than if an independent creator saw it. obviously there are a few exceptions but for the most part, thats what happens

     

    i could sit here and make trans ocs all the live long day, and thats all fine and dandy, but ultimately its still entirely up to me to make my own representation, which shouldnt have to happen. especially since ultimately, my ocs arent part of anything. at all.

     

    meanwhile, fitting tamaru into a trans narrative, which honestly isnt that hard considering theres barely any actual canon info because tamaru is such a minor character, is better and more satisfying for a lot of people because its an existing and familiar character, so we can feel more like were a part of a story with characters like us

     

     

    > it means a Trans person irl can't make it without the help of a cis person

     

    newsflash pal, i can attest to the fact that this literally happens in real life but it isnt because were weak and helpless and try to fit our experiences into fictional characters, its because cis people like to screw us over at absolutely every turn, from major things like yknow, killing us and leaving us homeless and denying us proper care, to minor like trying to speak over us when we try to talk about our experiences and yelling at us when we try to identify with a character because cis writers cant be bothered to give us any proper representation, thus leaving us absolutely alienated and feeling like we dont belong

     

     

    > See how offensive that sounds? So there, before you generalize try looking for pieces of the puzzle and understand the story.

     

    yeah that. that is offensive brah and i dont know what youre trying to prove by pulling out something that actually happens and using it to shut us up. it sounds like the person who needs to learn to look at things before generalizing is you, especially since this is an entry about wanting to find representation, and thats exactly what this original post is about?

     

     

    at least thats what im getting out of it god sorry again tek good solid entry very relateable but that comment got to me sorry again because it felt like it missed the entire point of the entry sorry for the absolute wall of text

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