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[–]8bitgay 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the issue is also that they try to tie magical representation into real issues. Like the character in She-Ra: it's a non-human alien with green skin and for all we know the character might actually be neither male nor female. How do you pick a character like that and say "ah, yes, that's just like me"? Jacob is the character's voice actor, but they are nothing like each other.

[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen" 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, that too. Like, in the Stevonnie thing, they're comparing "magically fused children" to a disorder of sexual development, which is a completely unrelated and unrealistic idea.

I don't have an issue with sexless, or even hermaphrodite characters, especially if they are aliens. It becomes a problem though when they use unrelated real world terminology that gets misrepresented (intersex), try to push gender propaganda (nonbinary) or do shit like hire a pretentious "nonbinary" voice actor and claim it's stunning and brave representation. I miss the days when aliens were just aliens.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What's worse was that at first Stevonnie and fusion in general was treated as if it was a physical manifestation of two people's love for each other (or talked about as if it were sexual intercourse), but then it was forced to become an intersex representation when Sugar started to push her non-binary/genderfluid agenda.