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so ... unfortunately , as always , there can be rampant misogyny in fandoms online , and people often refuse to analyse as such . this lead to people who make simple , direct posts - name 1 favourite female character , perhaps under some specific conditions like villain or badass . that kind of thing can be good to think about , to wonder why not more of these characters exist , or why perhaps consider inherently more unlikable .
but there is another kind of post which do not immediately specify female character , then lash out at people who tag with canon male characters - such as posts that say things like " my beautiful princess " . on one hand , of course , important to recognise that one's personal gender headcanons not in canon text , and that is what make headcanon . on other hand , these ones do not present as thought exercise to begin with - without that specification , this start to feel like kneejerk reaction to femininity when associated with men , not critique of misogynistic bias .
furthermore begin to wonder , even if any of these headcanons actually true - if given character was actually bigender , transfeminine , or otherwise within canon text ... would that actually be taken seriously , or now boil down to physical appearance ? that if such character have bushy beard , or lack breasts , would deem as invasive man and therefore not part of conversation .
know that part is hard to answer because can not really find such characters in mainstream yet - even multigender characters must change whole body to align with expectations of gender , and especially shapeshift outright as see with jordan li from gen V . this is not show that watch , but character recently come on radar because bigender , and yes , already groan at idea .
regardless , people just do not take bigender identities seriously . even when personally try to point out that there is unfairness in paint all bigender experiences with non-binary labels and particularly " gender neutrality " , people do not listen or care . this was what " choose " , after all - always invader , always pretender , too much of man for women and too much of woman for men . better just shut up and accept never part of conversations , never part of world , always for someone else to decide what gender really is .
but there is another kind of post which do not immediately specify female character , then lash out at people who tag with canon male characters - such as posts that say things like " my beautiful princess " . on one hand , of course , important to recognise that one's personal gender headcanons not in canon text , and that is what make headcanon . on other hand , these ones do not present as thought exercise to begin with - without that specification , this start to feel like kneejerk reaction to femininity when associated with men , not critique of misogynistic bias .
furthermore begin to wonder , even if any of these headcanons actually true - if given character was actually bigender , transfeminine , or otherwise within canon text ... would that actually be taken seriously , or now boil down to physical appearance ? that if such character have bushy beard , or lack breasts , would deem as invasive man and therefore not part of conversation .
know that part is hard to answer because can not really find such characters in mainstream yet - even multigender characters must change whole body to align with expectations of gender , and especially shapeshift outright as see with jordan li from gen V . this is not show that watch , but character recently come on radar because bigender , and yes , already groan at idea .
regardless , people just do not take bigender identities seriously . even when personally try to point out that there is unfairness in paint all bigender experiences with non-binary labels and particularly " gender neutrality " , people do not listen or care . this was what " choose " , after all - always invader , always pretender , too much of man for women and too much of woman for men . better just shut up and accept never part of conversations , never part of world , always for someone else to decide what gender really is .
