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lord-squiggletits · 1 year ago

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Man there's nothing wrong with genderbends as a concept but there's something lowkey infuriating about this fandom's tendency to take canonically gay (or at least, MLM) male characters and genderbend them into women like. Is that not at least a little bit uncomfortable for anyone else here or is it just me

#esp since like for example you never see it happen to any of the female/sapphic characters #could just be bc TF's cast is overwhelmingly male and thus ppl want to even the gender ratio a little #but like. ppl spend more time genderbending male characters into women than they do making content for canon women including the sapphics #discourse #like idk sometimes if the art is really good or if i'm in a really good mood i'm like 'yeah this is fine. i admit i like it'#but then there's other times where i'm like. did you rly think it was a good idea to turn a canon gay man into a woman in your AU #like. really really?#idk it's just one of those things where as a baseline i understand genderbend and even enjoy them myself #it's just in this fandom specifically where the way ppl do it sometimes. feels uncomfortable. or at least poorly thought out #that or it's just me getting annoyed by ppl going 'omg i love TF women' and then making 0 content for them #and then complaining that there's not enough female characters #like okay you literally dont even pay attention to the women who are there and just make fanart of men and m/m stuff #kinda feels like you should either put your money where your mouth is or stop complaining about it #or maybe start supporting franchises that actually have even gender balances instead of inventing representation #that only exists in your brain/friend group and the ppl actually making shows (or watching them) dgaf about

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