Rose Tico defender

If your protagonist is a fighter or magic user, do you show other women in those roles? If your society is more relaxed about sex discrimination, have you built a world that looks like it?

Have you built a world where your female characters don’t all have to be The Best At Everything, or is almost every female character placed where she can be extraordinary next to a bunch of male counterparts? Are you comfortable letting a female wizard or warrior be average or unimportant, or does she have to be one of the most skilled and powerful of them all, able to match or best all the men around her? On the other hand, are you comfortable having a female wizard or warrior be indisputably the most skilled or powerful out of the wizards or warriors, without drawing attention to her gender, placing her in competition with men, or having her be an exception to the rule because she’s female?

Are you letting your female characters be mediocre and un-extraordinary? Your world is full of powerful sorceresses, fierce battle maidens and calculating noblewomen, but do women do things in this world other than be Exemplary and Great and Awesome? If you’ve established that women do business and fight, do you have female soldiers carousing at bars and vaguely dull female Evil Minions Of The Dark Lord bumbling around doing evil bidding and female apprentices slacking on work or is every background woman we see competent and controlled and intelligent and doing whatever it is she’s doing without error, whereas only men are allowed to be foolish, impulsive, mess things up, or just be shown unflatteringly during the couple sentences we know them? In other words, does the world show women being unapologetically human beings or are all your female characters basically making up for being women by not doing anything that would badly represent their gender?

Definitionally yes, all trans women are affected by transmisogyny. I think a more productive perspective is that TMA is an analytical category as opposed to a replacement term for trans women/trans fem. TMA/TME describes one’s relationship to transmisogyny (relate in a social way, not just like, personally). This analytic frame allows us to talk about a particular type of bigotry that not all trans people face, but is nonetheless foundational to transphobia as a structural form of bigotry. ie, all transmisogyny is transphobia, but not all transphobia is transmisogyny. TMA only makes sense in reference to TME, which is the more expansive category that includes some trans/nb people, along with cis people.

Mon'ran and Relan join the bath! I've switched to giving them a slightly more intimate interaction, and oh that pose was demanding but SO fun to draw! They are both padawans during the war, so who knows, they may be close enough for a gossip fuelled back massage! They belong to @andi-1oh and @lepidopoda (I hope that's okay with yous)