To continue on from my last post, fandoms seemingly have this neccessity to ignore and write over feminity in general. Whether its misogynists refusing to focus on women while instead focussing on uninteresting male side characters who barely get screen time or in this case denying hints of transfeminity no matter what, fandom hates women and trans women.
Back when Jadetok released 90% of the Jake fanart was either A. Jake in his coat and underwear or B. Doing their damned hardest to make Jake's dress anything but a dress. The former isn't like all that surprising, people aant to draw Jake hot in a masculine way which the story provided them with, sure go ahead (though often it felt as if used in a way to ignore the other outfit) but the dress. The fucking dress.
I had people swearing to me that you could tell it was just a green coat and shorts in several panels, that it wasn't a dress at all. I literally looked frame by frame for this suppossed dividing line that proved it was pants/whitey tightys underneath and came back empty handed. The thing is? I was literally right! I was more then right!
In every (almost) single design iteration it was a white dress (pretty similar to that worn by Beta Roxy) worn with a coat over it and the one single one it wasn't was for a fucking Trinity from the matrix inspired design (Do I have to say anythint about the matrix rn). They just use "genderfluid" to describe the outfit without even thinking twice because its just that fucking obvious that Jake has something going on gender wise.
And this brings to my point that I can't even tell if HSBC is doing badly in terms of transfems? Like I can't fucking tell when everyone denys every little thing for eternity in a way that ends up making girls think the comic is doing worse then it is because this fandom hates trans women.
Open your eyes more to transfem interpretations for the love of everything.
