#bortus

Kelly: This is nice.

Like you got the Gay Aliens from Heterophobic Gay Alien Planet where Women Bad and non-gay aliens are put in jail:

Bortus, a panicked bisexual

Bortus's husband Klyden, a heterophobic transphobic-coded but actually somehow cis-phobic misogynistic intersex-coded transgender gay alien,

And their intersex-coded trans but actually also cis daughter Topa

Like when people talk about "weird queer representation" I do in fact picture this fucked up little family

My issue isn’t with that, its that people in the comments often don’t seem to realize that its trying to tackle a real world issue (someone even tried to use doctors not telling a character about signs of IGM when they noticed it as a way to I guess say the plotline made no sene) and trying to point it out always gets a “chill its not that deep” response when it clearly is??

A lot of shows have plotlines that mirror real world issues. The entire discussion of whether or not to mutilate their child, and the realization that one of the parents went through IGM, and the whole “you had that decision made for you” narrative is very much a reflection of reality. Sure, bringing up Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer is sort of funny (at least until you consider that Rudolph is yet another story that reflects reality with the ostracization of children with noticeable physical differences, even if it is a bit dated with the whole “but you can excel BECAUSE of your difference” narrative) but that doesn’t mean the story doesn’t have any merit or parallels to the real world

Again, haven’t seen the show. I might watch it if it is actually good

The show you are talking about is The Orville, and the Moclan is the alien species that perform genital mutilation on their female population as a commentary on real life “corrective surgeries” forced on babies such as FGM and, yes, IGM.

And this guy too, for some reason