“Jax abuses Gangle” Gangle put Jax in a clockwork orange chair for not performing unpaid food service labour
TME people when they see a cis woman literally torture a trans woman: yeah well she deserved it because that tranny I mean he I mean it was (checks notes) mean a couple times
Jax is an abuser how a school bully is an abuser. Like, at the time of the show taking place Jax is 22. She's already been there for several years, so she was like, at most 18 when she entered the circus.
Nobody wants to give Jax the grace they would give any homeless mentally ill racialized teenager. Because she's TMA. But Gangle, who is four years the senior of this homeless mentally ill racialized character btw, gets a free pass from the fandom to Ludovico her. Because Jax is TMA.
The point of the digital circus is they are flawed people thrust into an impossibly bad situation trying to make the best of it, and slowly becoming better and finding meaning because of it. Zooble disassociates, Gangle minimises herself, Ragatha overcompensates and Jax takes it out on others. None of them practice healthy coping mechanisms and yes, Jax's way of dealing with everything is deeply flawed but that's the fucking point of her story, and reducing it to popsych "Jax is an abuser" is A) catastrophizing, and B) the kind of black and white thinking the characters story is directly trying to steer the viewer away from.
She's a deeply flawed troubled kid who doesn't even get to come to terms, accept, or even try and make amends before she's functionally killed. The last conscious thought she has is realising for the first time she doesn't want to go and she wants to try. Every other character gets to improve and find meaning, and she doesn't, and that sucks and is sad and it's meant to because she is a tragic character.
people who are trying to jacket Jax as some kind of manipulative predatory abuser are failing to acknowledge what the author is telling them on top of being incredibly transmisogynistic. I'm so fucking tired.
