#controversial topic

If you're referring to Jax apparently being trans, then oh boy do I have thoughts. Which are no doubt very unpopular with the rest of the fandom.

My bestie already made a post about it here, and she summed it up really well. And if anyone who disagrees attacks her about it, I will personally hunt you down and make you regret all your life choices. 🫵 You can disagree peacefully. Just keep scrolling. It's not that hard.

I know I'm not the creator, this is not my show, Jax is not my creation. But I cannot, in any way, agree or support the idea of him supposedly being trans. For one, as a Christian, I cannot support the trans lifestyle, as it is in direct rebellion against God, nor can I support any LGBT+ lifestyle. I stand with God, not what's popular. I'll likely lose followers for this, but y'all's judgment means nothing to me compared to God's. I'm not a hater. I don't think of myself as a "transphobe" because I don't hate trans people and/or wish they would die. I just won't support their choices. Sin does not stop being sin just because it's popular.

As is the case with many actual "trans" people, Jax so clearly to me is a boy who had absolutely no example of healthy masculinity in his life. His parents did not get along. His father was distant and left just as Jax was becoming a young adult. He never mentioned any siblings. He expressed his frustration that no matter what he did, whether he was gentle or harsh, he wasn't good enough to his mother.

What kind of message is it to tell kids and teens that if others won't love them the way they are, they have to physically change themselves so they'll be loved?

A terrible and manipulative message. That's what.

Jax needed a good father figure. Someone to guide him and model what healthy masculinity looks like. He didn't have that. The only message being sent by the idea of Jax being trans is that being a male is bad, and he will never be accepted as one. Which is, y'know, sickening.

Everyone is born exactly the way they're meant to be. God doesn't make mistakes, and that includes people's genders. I still love Jax, but seeing as the show itself never said as much in this concept, and they were still referring to him as a male by the end, I love him just the way he is. The way he was the whole show.

1) I don’t think it’s appropriate for an audience who could never relate to a harm to police the way someone is supposed to react/reflect on potential harm done. I say this as a white american phan. When someone says that they’ve been hurt by racism/xenophobia I sit my ass down and listen. Ideally, none of us want people to be hurt. So ideally, we want to listen and learn about how we can prevent any harm going forward, not dictate what should and shouldn’t be harmful.

2) From what I understand, and again I’m not a part of the harmed party so maybe I’m off base, but the issue isn’t necessarily the joke Dan made. His frustration and need to joke as a coping mechanism is understandable! The issue is that his platform requires a certain level of responsibility where leaving it at “the government said no homo” does not reflect the same sentiment of “we experienced homophobia from some governments and we know we have so many lgbtq+ supporters in Asia but unfortunately we would not be able to visit you without shows in those countries.” The original comment opened the doors for a lot of xenophobia and racism which white phannies then participated in, generalizing the whole of Asia as a way to comfort/joke back with Dan. I don’t think the comment was inherently harmful, but it just did not fully address the situation at hand. Especially when we’re talking about how their inability to go to a few countries kept them out from ALL of Asia. It wasn’t EVERY government that had an issue. Just enough to mean that they couldn’t get enough shows. That’s important info too.

3) Dan has every right to be hurt and frustrated over this. Again, I just highly doubt that the phans from these countries need white american phans explaining to them why Dan would be so upset and why they should not complain. They live this experience every day. I’m pretty sure they know why he’d be upset. And just because he is upset doesn’t mean they can’t say “hey actually the way you addressed this could have been better please elaborate.”

4) No one is “cancelling” Dan. This was a learning experience. We should be thanking people for teaching us about how to be better allies.

Hello, I wanted to point out that the skintone you used was inaccurate and not as dark as Becky is in Wordgirl. I understand these are very desaturate colors, so it might of been an accident but while you can use desaturated coloring you need to keep the same value as the original skin tone (and it looks ashy) I doubt this was intentional but please fix your colors and refrain from doing this in the future. Thank you for your time.

Oh my god... excuse me?

...well this was bound to happen at some point! Fun fact these are not hand picked I used real saturated/dark colors and then turned down the opacity...when resorted to their original no transparency forms they're much more accurate.

Now I hate to show my art process since it's messy and frankly embarrassing but here we go

Here's the before:

Here's the after:

Its a simple drag of the opacity threshold I was just going for a soft light look with these colors so I wouldn’t have to focus on making them on model, so yes they're not 100% accurate but she's definitely not made lighter. I do this for Miss Power as well.

Also I would never whitewash her and I've never drawn her that way either. She was one of my few brown girl reps growing up, it was so wonderful seeing someone who looked like me on tv. It's heartbreaking to be accused this way.

Erm and... 'ashy'?? I mean. Maybe I can understand it feeling that way to you but these are accurate colors done for me by the opacity slider and basic color theory really. All colors are lighter not just her skin. But thanks for the concern I guess..?

I'm sorry if the color style isn't your taste but the second part will be done the same way it saves time. You are free to not check it out when I post it if it upsets you.

Lastly, in case there's some misunderstanding with color theory I'll include what you've requested so you understand why her skin is this shade:

As you can see I've used the original full opacity shade and it looks extremely strange. Everything else is light desaturated and pastel while her skin is not. This requires color adjustment, in order to make it fit in it needs to be the same as the rest! That's a basic application of color theory.

Controversial topic warning.

I need to get this off my chest.