#spookasks

So, the meaning behind their bedrooms all varied. Some ranged from their annoyances to their loves. Pomni's room had oversized items, somewhat infantilizing her. Gangle's had Japanese lanterns, showing her appreciation for the culture.

I can see why Jax's room was the way it was, due to his struggles with feminine expression. I'm a little thrown, though, at why it was a little girl's room. Even the way Goose styled him post-show is more alt than anything. I've been trying to figure it out, but I have nothing.

It's probably because it is what jax views is most feminine and reflects what femininity is like to him. Femininity is childish, femininity is weak and small, like a child, femininity is being stupidly "girly" not being a woman with her own agency. It echoes how humiliating and trapped being feminine is to him. It's also the most stereotypical type of femininity, and we know how stereotypical jax is regarding his beliefs.

Jax's toxic behavior is rooted in their vitriolic denial, repression, and rejection of their own transness. This is not Emilia Pérez and Jax being a terrible person because of internalized transphobia, doesn't mean their behavior is directly caused by their transness.

I'm not gonna answer any more braindead asks like this because clearly some of yall aren't reading and then I get hot shit confident to be wrong anons

No bro

Im not entirely sure what I'm trying figure out here, besides Jax acting like a feral raccoon even to something that was meant to be a different version of him. Im not sure if anyones made any sort of character analysis for this specific thing in regards to that episode and the finale yet.

It would've been amazing and subtle foreshadowing for sure but alas.... a certain bird.

I guess I didn’t get my point across well enough in my original ask. Saying a trans woman is doing something in a “male” way is a microaggression, full stop. Evidently, you didn’t say that in bad faith, it was a mistake. Most microaggressions are things tacitly encouraged by society that people repeat without really interrogating it.

Using your own example— This isn’t comparable to saying racist media made by a black person feels like it was made by a white person because the main stereotype against black people isn’t that they’re secretly white. However, that is the case for trans women, who are treated like they’re secretly men. Bioessentialists frequently cite doing things “like a man” as “proof” that trans women are actually men in disguise.

Perpetuating misogyny (ironically enough) isn’t a gendered activity, everyone is equally capable of causing harm, regardless of gender. Gooseworx isn’t writing like a “cis man,” she’s writing like a misogynist— which is the actual point being made and gets the point across more succinctly.

The thing is that when someone uses language commonly associated with bigotry, it dilutes the actual argument being made, regardless of the author’s intent. It also gives people who already disagree with you more ammunition to use against you with bad faith arguments.

Obviously, misspeaking once isn’t a major issue in the slightest. I only really sent an ask because nobody else was properly explaining what was actually wrong with the statement, and I feel like learning from mistakes is more important than being reprimanded for them.

Ohhhhhhh

I really appreciate this detailed and informative response, thank you. I knew the subtle tones but didn't realize I was still committing and encouraging microaggressions. Again that's why I always put the #fuck terfs in any post relating to the trans rep issue and Gooseworx, I knew usually those are the people who wait and bite for a chance to compare to trans women as men. I guess as an unconscious action, I thought in some way it would cancel out the harm and pandering. At bare minimum the risk of it.

These were the results from the last one that was done:

Jax

Pomni

Kinger

Gangle

Ragatha

Zooble

*Caine

NOTE: THERE WAS CODING RIGGED TO PUT CAINE IN LAST FOR THE LOLZ

My predictions are a question mark for Jax, Pomni drops hard because of the Homie Hopper Pombird jokes, a question mark for Kinger, and Gangle, Ragatha, and Zooble go up out of justice. Caine might go up, but I don't know by how much.

Caine was there for lolz but he should've won 💔