Crazy Doodlez Doodles Stuff

hey did anyone notice this sucks ass?! :D do we feel the eventual contempt i had for this idea in that last panel?

anyway bonus yellow

I say this as a non-passing trans man who reads as a butch lesbian. People often default to believing I'm just a queer woman. And when corrected, they're supportive and apologetic, generally. Don't get me wrong, ocassionally it stings but — am I supposed to get mad that they aren't making assumptions based on my style of dress?

There's a cis gay man in my area that tends to show up to underground shows and queer events wearing dresses and heals and makeup. He is a cis man, but is ocassionally mistaken for a trans woman, although he's just a feminine presenting guy who enjoys getting dolled up.

But to extend the metaphor a bit further, Imagine Caine is a person living isolated in the middle of nowhere without internet. He's desperately lonely, so he raises a bunch of ducks he captures from a nearby lake because they are his favorite animal.

The Ducks keep dying. He does not know why. The ducks peck at him whenever he tries to pet them. He does not know why. He tries to build the best possible coop for them, but they keep plucking their own feathers from stress.

He loves them, but no matter what he does, no matter what he tries, the ducks are miserable and keep dying and want nothing to do with him. But he doesn't want to let them go, he has nothing else in his life. He has nobody else in his life.

Now the metaphor breaks down when you remember the humans can actually talk to Caine, unlike ducks. But honestly that only would help so much, Caine had pretty much zero context to comprehend most of the things the humans talked about as being important to them.

Caine pretty much saw most of the human's complaints as being a case of Preferences rather than "I need things to change so I don't abstract from the stress". And given Caine does not really understand things like nuance and Unspoken Meanings, he was not going to get that unless somebody spelled it out for him directly in those terms (Caine my beloved AuDHD disaster dentures).

Caine literally had to Google humans in their natural habitat before he had even an inkling of what they were actually upset about.