#sooooooooooo YA KNOW … let’s just realize that everyone kinda had no idea wtf they were talking about until recently

[kdinjenzen]

I’m going to be honest…

When a cishet white neurotypical person writes a character and then finds out that people see it as an allegory for being trans, or neurodivergent, or queer, or a PoC and then the cishet white neurotypical person says “This Was Not My Intention”…

I’m likely to believe them.

For the simple fact that most, if not close to all of them, had no idea the rest of the world existed beyond their worldview until 2020 hit.

So when folks say “I Bet This Was A Trans Allegory” about a character written before say, oh I dunno, 2018… I have to quirk my eyebrow, because - as much as it may seem like it - it almost 100% isn’t.

Cishet White Neurotypical people write Robots, Monsters, Aliens, etc as “Not Understanding Typical Earth Human Society Standards Of Things” and stumble accidentally into relatable content for people who aren’t like them.

When the writer of “The Thing From Before 2018” says it’s not about being neurodivergent, or trans, or a PoC, or anything… they’re probably telling the truth because they legitimately didn’t even consider that a possibility until the world forced them to see those types of people as people in the real world let alone fiction.

Also this isn’t a “we should forgive/turn a blind to this stuff” post.

It’s more a “stop saying these characters are factually allegories when they are not at all that” post.

One of the main reasons we resonate with Robots, Aliens, Monsters, etc in media is because Cishet White Neurotypical folks othered us in real life the same way they other THOSE kinds of characters in fiction, treated as “not exactly human.”

#like as much as I want Nier Automata to have trans themes in it - it doesn’t have trans themes legitimately #neither does My Life As A Teenage Robot #Or literally anything from my childhood or even my recent memory #and that kinda goes for everything else too #and if it DOES it’s in the WORST ways and not for any GOOD reason #also y’all know I love RWBY - but when Penny was confronted by the fact that Blake ‘wasn’t like them’ she immediately called Blake a ‘man’ #sooooooooooo YA KNOW … let’s just realize that everyone kinda had no idea wtf they were talking about until recently #and even so most folks STILL don’t know what they’re talking about