#sub mission

Rita dresses a bit masculine and has a thing for never wearing skirts ever, which at first is seen as a very strong female character thing to do. At some point tho, after seasons over seasons of Jupiter totally not standing Rita, she is revealed to actually be... Surprise! A man. But like In the most transphobic way possible. They even have a montage of all the "masculine" things Rita did posing a a woman like refusing to wear skirts. His name is Richard or some shit and he explains that he did it because a) there was this woman working with Jupiter at the time who rejected him so he started dressing up as a woman to be friends with her and be near her like a fucking creep or something or b) thought dressing up as a woman would have given him advantages because "women can do pretty eyes to their boss and get promoted" (read: misogyny), clarifying that there is a totally cishet explanation behind all this and that Richard is cis. After this Jupiter immediately becomes buddies with Richard because... They're both cishet men now? Some fans keep hc Richard as trans and the writers get really mad and make him say something really transphobic or idk what