r/traaaaaaaaaaaansbians • u/travischickencoop • 25m ago
Personal stuff (read rule 6 pls) If I may get on a soap box for a moment (bit of a rant)
I lowkey feel like there are a lot of people who hide a misogynistic disdain for femininity behind “woke” criticisms like criticizing a feminine design for “not making sense”
I saw a critique of Dawn from Pokémon earlier that made me think about this because the criticism was that she’s an adventurer so she shouldn’t be thin and she’s wearing a skirt which doesn’t make sense for someone traveling and that wouldn’t be an issue if it weren’t for the fact no one ever criticizes the male characters for the same thing - in those games all of the same criticisms can also be applied to Lucas and his baggy ass pants but they never fucking are
Hell I have legitimately had people tell me to my face that the fact that I love skirts is inherently offensive because it is playing off of the gender stereotypes associated with women and I should only wear them on occasion
There’s nothing wrong with wanting more diverse female characters, but just blindly hating feminine female characters is not woke, masculine women absolutely deserve more representation, but that’s not really a fair thing to bring up against more feminine women in media
And I swear they do not give a shit about masculine men it’s only ever feminine women that get this speech
It’s like taking the patriarchal mindset of “Man good woman bad”, and adjusting it ever so slightly to “Masculine good feminine bad”
And for the record I do agree with the final criticism that Dawn’s platinum design needed leggings lmao