#lil rant

Ragatha coped with the situation by trying to be kind and positive all the time, which reminded Jax of the manipulative kindness of her mother.

Jax coped by being mean and violent, reminding Ragatha of her mother's (implied) physical abuse, as well as mental abuse.

And in the end, Ragatha learns to be more honest and open about her feelings, which allows her to get closer to Pomni and the others. As opposed to Jax who kept pushing everyone away and ended up isolating herself and abstracting.

I've seen many people criticise the Pomni and Ragatha hug scene in the finale, and while I personally loved it even if it dragged for a little too long (im ragapom biased sorry) I do understand the critic because it does feel unearned. We never saw them talk after e6 and resolve their conflict. We immediately cut to e7 where Ragatha does nothing all episode and just follows Pomni around but obviously they're now real friends (though I do wish to defend one point: Pomni has chosen Ragatha over Jax several times throughout the show. In e6, she wanted to team with Ragatha, and then Kinger but got stuck with Jax, and that was after she already started to be interested in Jax's whole deal. I don't think it's wrong or by process of elimination that Pomni calls Rags her closest friend, because she cares about Jax a lot too, but if she had to confide in someone, it would be Ragatha or Kinger, not Jax. Anyway, moving on.)

In the same way, Gangle admits in e4 that she sometimes also doubts if Ragatha's kindness is genuine, and you would think this was setting up for a conflict or evolution in her relationship with Ragatha, but it is never addressed again after e4 because we never see them talk. It also could be because Jax was the one putting that idea in her head, since Jax echoes the sentiment a couple of episodes later, and we know Jax forced her to team up on adventures, but again, just speculations. Everything about Ragatha's character development and relations with the others just never really came to fruition, or it happened off-screen. Even though, on paper, it feels like she should have gotten a bigger role than she was given.

I’m not an expert or anything like poro chan but the singing was probably my favorite part , the choreography ate too…and Purson with that trumpet entrance was actually ICONIC. I suddenly wanna learn too

There’s 10(!!) transformers aus constantly fighting for attention in this lil mind and I’ve only written scattered parts of 3 of them here and there. (Cause while hamster brain is small, if you stick it on the wheel it’s going Mach 5.)

I want to write about silly lil robots alreadyyyy but I still have an accursed school essay to question life over aaaGHHHHH

no hamster wheel for me ig

Dont you just love having an unemotionally available mother too???

Omg you do!?

Me too!!!...

I really wasn't expecting him to become a fan favorite! I don't get fanart often but I have the most fanart for him! Which is crazy cuz he's supposed to only be a joke character loll

As I see it, the best of intersectionality is how it allows us to see how social categories people belong to interact to make their experiences. It's not about adding up oppression categories that remain unchanged in the effects. Thinking about it that way kind of implies that some experiences are the default while others are abnormalities, variations.

For example, the racism black men experience is different from that black women experience. Some points remain the same — being seen as less rational, less trustworthy, more sexual, more acceptable victims of poverty and violence — but others diverge.

If we think of it as simply "black women experience misogyny on top of racism, which is what makes the difference", then we imply "black men have the default experience of (anti-black) racism". =But the racism they suffer is clearly related to their being men — such as the idea they're a sexual threat to white women or that they're violent gangsters — so the implication becomes that being a man is the default mode of being. The same can be said of thinking black women simply experience default misogyny and added racism can imply the experience of sexist oppression of white women is the default one.

Misogynoir and transmisogyny both come from pointing out that the way sexism affects black and trans women differs from the way it affects white and cis women. These terms help us better conceptualize their experience, when most of the discourse on racism and sexism is written centering black men and white women.

So with all that in mind,

wouldn't having words for the specific way social categories interact be good? Wouldn't it prompt us to check assumptions we're making about the groups we're talking about? Wouldn't that, in a way, make it clear it isn't the default — the same way having words like "cis" "able-bodied" "white" etc do? Wouldn't that ironically decenter those experiences by making it clear they're not the default? Why think marginalization categories are the ones altering a "default way of oppression"? And also allow more nuance?