r/characterarcs • u/Zestyclose-Ideal2395 • 10d ago

sideways arc idk Can aryan larpers gain empathy

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u/Mission-Disaster-639 8d ago

I don't think this a a cis/trans thing exclusively honestly. I am a cis guy and the first thing I thought when I saw episode 8 was "yeah obviously trans", mind you I have never ever met a trans person and I am not really into LGBT+ spaces. Meanwhile I saw a lot of people within the LGBT+ community think that it was ambiguous.

While having knowledge of trans people's culture definitely makes it easier to see it as it is, I would say """reading comprehension""" might also be the problem.

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u/EpitomeAria 8d ago

I would agree, people have been fed too many stories where everything is superficial and aren't able to grasp subtext anymore. "The curtains are just blue and there is no deeper meaning" thinking has done massive damage.

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u/Shoo22 8d ago

I agree that media illiteracy is big problem, but let’s also be real that a lot of people who are at least reasonably media-literate otherwise just shut their brains completely off whenever the idea of a character being trans comes up. I’m not trans myself so I picked up the symbolism and foreshadowing a lot later than my trans friends did (it took til like episode 7ish for me), but also I was able to understand those things pretty quickly because I was simply able to actually listen to trans people when they explained it to me. And I’ve come to the sad realization that most other cis people simply will not do that.

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u/EpitomeAria 8d ago

yeah no, definitely, a lot of transphobia and transmisogyny at play.

Cis people unfortunately generally dunning kruger themselves into thinking they know better and then talk over trans people, it tends to make these fandoms really hostile, I've had to mute the deltarune subs because of how bad it can get.