I'm trying to find words to discuss this with you.
But my knee-jerk reaction is 'if women are underrepresented, what do you think non-gender conforming beings are?'
And I am trying to get to a more articulate place to work from, but it is so close to home that I have trouble. I *get* that women are overshadowed in their own fandoms. Ziva in NCIS should have had a fan following on par with Black Widow... and it's all about the boys. Same for Abby, same show.
But when you get someone who presents as a non-binary gender, or caught between the two binaries, and they are erased, or the writer chooses to simplify in a follow-up by explicitly making them *normal*, it really, really tears at my soul. It's a message of 'you do not matter, you are fake, they are none like you' that I get hit with.
So this change, if I am understanding it right, means a lot to me.
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But my knee-jerk reaction is 'if women are underrepresented, what do you think non-gender conforming beings are?'
And I am trying to get to a more articulate place to work from, but it is so close to home that I have trouble. I *get* that women are overshadowed in their own fandoms. Ziva in NCIS should have had a fan following on par with Black Widow... and it's all about the boys. Same for Abby, same show.
But when you get someone who presents as a non-binary gender, or caught between the two binaries, and they are erased, or the writer chooses to simplify in a follow-up by explicitly making them *normal*, it really, really tears at my soul. It's a message of 'you do not matter, you are fake, they are none like you' that I get hit with.
So this change, if I am understanding it right, means a lot to me.