I'm really tired of cis boys on youtube making videos where they pretend to super queer friendly and push for representation and then throw in "Without pushing an agenda" or "As long as it isn't pandering!" or some shit at the end.
Like I just saw one that even basically said "trans people are only allowed to exist in media as long as their stories are metaphorical and created by cis people", with showing a series with a trans woman voiceing a trans character as his go to example on how to never do things... instead of a shitty filler arc in a shitty shonen anime as the "right" way to tell trans stories.
@BadWrongFun smfh
mind if i ask which things he was pointing out in particular?
Oh, the shows? The shonen anime was Hunter x Hunter.
The "how not to portray trans people" example was Generation Zed. And I hardly remember that show. Like it could be terrible? But like I question singling out that specific little web series, especially because the lead actress had the chan/kiwi farms mobs after her for a long time..... instead of like any of a bazillion different pieces of problematic media. Like I dunno, like fucking Neo Yokio if you wanna pick something newer/more current that's near universally recognized as a bad show.
@grime_witch And mind you me, Hunter x Hunter is by Yoshihiro Togashi. And yeah... conviently forget there's a whole fight in Yu Yu Hakusho that amounts to "I can't hit a girl! ... SHE HAS A DICK AND BALLS! GROSS!! lol, he's actually a man so now I'll beat him up!" as a punchline.
So ummmm, yeah anything you can gleam trans positive from Hunter x Hunter might not exactly be author intended.
@BadWrongFun @grime_witch Alluka is constantly misgendered and abused by her family and she has a wish granting power which makes her ask for things like people tearing of limbs and shit.
@BadWrongFun oh yeah... i remember that D: