Am I the only one that finds those posts that are like, "Oh, I hate Jax and want to beat her to death, but I won't ever misgender her!" Kinda fucked up and transmisogynistic? Look just hear me out on this.
The issue is not them hating Jax; genuinely, if you dislike her character, that's perfectly okay; not everything is for everyone, and not liking a character doesn't make you a bigot.
But fantasizing about doing violence to a trans woman isn't woke just because you don't misgender her as you do it. Even with the most charitable interpretation, these kinds of posts still just read as "fanbase is violently hateful and misogynistic to a female character for the crime of being a little too annoying."
Like, if she were a genuine monster with no redeeming qualities or did something super fucking evil and twisted, then whatever, but, like. Objectively speaking, she's not even the worst person in her own fucking show.
Caine literally skins Jax alive while mocking her for her dysphoria; has Pomni violently mangled by the fucked-up visage of her friend that he himself murdered; summons the image of Ragatha's abusive mom to impale her with knives; mocks Zooble's dysphoria in the cruelest way possible; and destroys Gangle's entire fucking sense of self, not to mention he is directly responsible for Kaufmo killing himself and indirectly responsible for the other abstractions as well.
Caine is an objectively worse person than Jax by every single measure possible, and yet from the way the fans act, you would think Caine is literally an infant and Jax is the devil from the Bible.
In TADC we watch a closeted, repressed trans woman lash out, try to kill herself, have a moment of despair, beg to live, and then die filled with regret as she mourns the girl she could have been.
If somebody can see all of that and fully comprehend why she acted the way she did and how her abuse affected her, and they still don't feel even the slightest shred of empathy or compassion towards her and instead fantasize about violently torturing her while making posts about how she's the worst person in the circus and deserved what she got, then why would I feel safe around them as a trans woman?
I have two example posts here with names cropped out so people don't jump them because I'm not a fucking pos. First, this one:
Oh, a trans man went to the movie and found out the character is a trans woman and came out hating her more? How fucking interesting. Care to elaborate a bit on why that is?
And then there's this one:
"Ahaha, guys, it's not weird at all that I'm publicly fantasizing about torturing a trans girl! I'm doing her the great service of not misgendering her, so it's actually woke!" bffr.
These people see correctly gendering a trans woman as a reward and think it somehow gives them carte blanche to say fucked-up shit about a trans woman. This is functionally indistinguishable from the "trans-inclusive radical misogyny" jokes, which have been funny maybe two times ever.
Anyways, TLDR: ffs, please just be normal about trans women. I've got smut to write, so rant over.
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