Gotta love that last one. “There’s girl power behind the scenes too except we didn’t bother to ask the original VAs if they’d like to reprise their roles, only rehired the original male VAs, and cut Miss Bellum out of the show for being too smart and capable YEAH GRRL POWER!”
This article is great if you read it in Femme Fatale’s voice.
And oh lord. THIS THOUGH.
“If you’re working with just white males, it’s easy to fall into putting that type of character into the cartoon, but that’s not reflective of the world or our audience these days,” Jennings said in an interview.
I’M SCREAMING. How many characters in the PPG were white men other than like the Mayor and the Professor?! HOW?! And who was the one who made up a show centered around the concept of three female children superheroines? Oh my go– bye. Bye. I’m done.
Scene redraw to visually show why this whole episode makes me uncomfortable.
Okay so I get this, but I also don’t. A horse with a cardboard unicorn horn vs a transwoman’s wig being taken off seems like a very distant comparison to me…
I read somewhere that they meant to have this horse wanting to be a unicorn represent a trans woman/gender issues to like teach the issue in an easy to understand way for kids apparently not realizing how ridiculous the way they went about it is. So when you think about the horse as a trans woman and the horn as a wig and buttercup taking the horn off in the way she did…/:
i see it as a comment on how feminization surgery isnt necessary in order to feel like a woman.
theres a difference between gender reassignment, and a softening of the jaw, implants, etc.
Well I, as a trans woman, see it as them telling us that we should accept what we were born as, as opposed to what we actually are.
I can respect that. As someone who is genderfluid, I sort of identify with it. I don’t have gender dysphoria because theres no definition as to what a man or a woman looks like, and it took me a while to come to terms with that. There’s dudes with boobs, and chicks with body hair, and that’s cool. The real man or woman is who I see in the mirror, and I don’t need anything to change that.
That’s fantastic that you’re comfortable enough with your body to not need any modifications but some of us don’t have that luxury which is why when this episode displayed procedures to change your body as some sort of mistake that we just rush into. That’s another reason why it makes me super uncomfortable. The whole episode sends so many wrong messages.
I can understand that, but overall the message seems to be “you are beautiful the way you are and do not require plastic surgery”.
Which is a backwards ass message when discussing trans issue.
This reminds me of that one post that complains that black is associated with dirt or wrong things and it claims this is racist. Human brains are hard-wired to associate BLACK with poison, rot, and unsanitary conditions. It has nothing to do with race. When applying the message to one issue, it can be considered racist. When applying it to another, it makes a lot more sense. I feel like you’re acting as though I’ve attacked you, when I’m just pointing out that it could mean something else.
Except the writers actually confirmed that donny was supposed to represent the trans community.
In addition to shattering old tropes and kick-punching dated ideas, the new “Powerpuff Girls” will also address issues of gender and identity. One upcoming episode in particular touches on ideas of gender identity – a topic open to conversation even in animated shows, thanks to programs such as “Steven Universe,” which explores gender fluidity and rejects established gender norms.
“We did an episode where there’s a unicorn. Basically when it starts out, he’s a pony, but he wants to be a unicorn,” Jennings explained. “He has to go through a transformation to become a unicorn and so it’s a whole [episode that asks], ‘What are you on the inside? What are you on the outside? How do you identify yourself? How do people see you?’ There’s a lot of subtext in that.”
Okay, so it’s about gender dysphoria and genderfluidity, not trans folks.
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