Bottles of Gatorade Blue Bolt floating in a bath of Powerade Mountain Blast, 2013
I can’t tell if this is seriously art or if it’s just tongue in cheek sarcastic art or if it’s post-ironic ironic art, or ironic art, or literally just a joke and that is so not okay.
Aesthetic
Your Honor, there is a clear contradiction in this photo.
As you can see from this piece of evidence, Gatorade bottles are topped with an orange lid.
But in the photo above, the lids are black. Which means that the bottles in this photo can’t be Gatorade bottles.
Transphobia = Outright being against transgenderism in general and outwardly, outright or even inwardly disrespectful of ACTUAL, REAL LIFE transgender people and transgenderism in and of itself.
Transphobia =/= Interpreting a fictional character in a video game with an unconfirmed gender as being male or female instead of nonbinary. Unconfirmed gender does not equal nonbinary, unconfirmed means up to interpretation.
If you want to headcanon Frisk and Chara as being nonbinary, fine. That is your interpretation and your choice, and there’s nothing wrong with that- Hell, I see them as nonbinary too.
However, that does NOT give you the right to force it on everyone else and shoot people down for gendering their Frisks/Charas. They are fictional characters, and many things about them are up to the player- such as whether they prefer cinnamon or butterscotch.
Neither Frisk nor Chara have a 100% confirmed gender. They can be male, female, nonbinary, ftm, mtf, whatever, depending on player interpretation. They do not have to universally be one gender over another.
The characters in Undertale may very well refer to them as ‘they’ due to not knowing their gender- because “they/them” is generally used to speak of someone of indeterminate gender. Maybe Frisk and Chara look gender ambiguous, and their genders never came up.
They COULD actually be nonbinary, or they may not be.
It’s up to player interpretation. Let people interpret these characters how they want and stop attacking them for it.
Also, @flavor-text-chara is, as I’ve heard, nonbinary themselves. How the hell can someone who is nonbinary… be transphobic against their own gender??
And @hawker-rawr / @ask-drunk-chara has explicitly stated their Chara/Frisk are nonbinary, but can use male pronouns… due to language barriers, because some languages do not have ungendered pronouns.
It’s really not that damn hard to grasp.
Stop attacking people over character interpretations.
