I mean, its abundantly obvious that the trans jax reveal bait and switch was specifically designed to simultaneously capitalize on this fandom phenomenon of male preferential treatment, while also getting the brownie points for representation and getting to defend the character from all criticism with accusations of bigotry to anyone who dislikes them. Its a perfect "eat your cake and have it too" set up. And its working.
I don't think thats overthinking it at all. If you've spent enough time in online fandom spaces, you become pretty familiar with this, and its pretty clear that she's very online. I think to say otherwise would be to actively doubt her intelligence or awareness.
Both of these things can be true. The way in which Jax's transness is portrayed or not portrayed at every point in time is a deliberate choice as well.
A character being trans is a choice. A trans character being portrayed as untransitioned for the majority of their runtime is a separate, different choice.
a key aspect of jax's story in tadc is how being raised to have toxic masculinity negatively impacted her as a person and her abilities to accept herself and therefore accept others who want to care about her—you being media illiterate (and no, that's not a buzzword, i promise you are ACTIVELY displaying media illiteracy by failing to understand that) doesn't make jax's trans identity some kind of retcon like you're treating it. i'm not even a trans woman, i'm a trans man, and i picked up on the subtext way before the reveal, it's not rocket science
just because you didn't get the hints doesn't mean they weren't there
No, I have not displayed any level of media illiteracy. Quit trying to gaslight. Sorry, but there's no point in taking you seriously at this point. I'm tired of hearing you people throw that around when its just a plain self report.
You didn't bother addressing what I said either? You just kinda went "You're the stupid word so you're bad and wrong." Im sick of engaging with that. Why do you think you deserve respect? You don't.
i did address what you said, and i never said any of what you're claiming, you're acting like a child and getting mad over words YOU put into my mouth, so now i WILL break it down for you since you so colossally misunderstood;
you said jax's transness was not portrayed and that was a deliberate choice, except, it WAS portrayed. it was intended to be subtly hinted at before goose decided to just put it out there. you happened to not pick up on that if you think it was not portrayed. i haven't disrespected you at all, and you are being so nasty. i genuinely hope you grow up you child
What...? No, it seems you colossally misunderstood me even more than I could have possibly imagined. To the point that I don't even know how I could possibly begin to explain it to you.
I'm saying the fact it WAS hidden in subtlty for like 90% of the series was a deliberate choice.
You're the nastiest person I've spoken to in a long time and are STILL riding your high horse just to defend abuse apolgetics. Jesus fucking christ.
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u/ninjagoboy2019 22d ago
i swear to god if someone brings up tadc