#trans woman hera makes so much sense to me there's just. something particularly recognizable and upsetting | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

commsroom · 1 year

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the way pryce degenders hera as a form of control feels even worse because there are a few occasions where she doesn't. "make it so she can't say her favorite word or give her a new recurring nightmare" and "trying to be the most adorable girl at the county fair"... it's reflective of pryce's general attitude towards others (less that she doesn't recognize their autonomy and more that she enjoys taking that autonomy away), and the particularly vulnerable position hera is in with even the most fundamental aspects of her identity, but it's also. just such a trans experience of womanhood. that even the people who want most to deny her any respect or recognition as a woman will still sometimes implicitly think of her that way and deride her within that context.

#wolf 359 #w359 #hera wolf 359 #idk. working through something here #trans woman hera makes so much sense to me there's just. something particularly recognizable and upsetting #about the way she's always treated as another category of person no matter how she expresses her own identity #i think about that line. 'new recurring nightmare' a lot for another reason but it feels. kind of related too #people are so quick to assume hera's differences that they don't even think to ask if she might. not actually be that different.#even eiffel just assumes for so long that hera doesn't sleep when canonically she does. she sleeps and she dreams and she has nightmares #and people just kind of. overlook that. it's just one thing but it feels connected to the bigger things. you know.#also i'm sorry but this is why maxwell's whole thing feels so uncomfortable to me in retrospect #because once you go back you can see how much of the language she uses towards hera parallels attitudes cutter & pryce have #even if she's 'nicer' about it #'no. i think i want to.'? eughhhh #it's complicated but there are. aspects of it that bother me a lot.

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