![]() Is it everything you hoped for?īecause it basically is her arguing that essentially my trans experience isn't real enough. ![]() ![]() How can we expect cis creators aim for anything but safe perfection? This is it. Not when we're still misusing "let queers be messy" and raking them over the coals for being messy and exploring and interrogating their own identity-dependent traumas. How do you convey marginalized identities to outsiders? Is there an answer? No, I don't think so. Which is fair, I absolutely hold people to task when they screw these things up. Of course, as much as I am critical of how transness is portrayed and used in Tell Me Why, I'm deeply sympathetic. We pushed for better representation only to have the edges of our identities filed down and wrapped in Nerf foam. Isn’t this what we bargained for? Depictions of identities that are marked by trauma that both acknowledge the trauma exists, but refuse to directly engage with it. The low-pressure, low-stakes encounters he must deal with regarding his gender identity are easily resolved and never truly explosive. After the violence experienced by The Last of Us 2's Lev, the kindness and sensitivity Tyler receives in his treatment is a welcome reprieve.
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