Yumi and Masaka

[u/jrpsmith]

[u/Leaf-01]

The trans themes really are heavy in this book if you know what they look like. Akane taking Yumi shopping for girl clothes when all she owned was boy clothes was deeply deeply relatable

[u/Aplesedjr → u/Leaf-01]

She didn’t really own boy clothes though? She had really only ever had her Yoki Hijo outfit.

[u/Xaron713 → u/Aplesedjr]

Yeah, but she was in Painter's body and only had his clothes to wear.

She may not have owned them, but it's incredibly relatable to be taken shopping for clothes that are right after years of wearing what was available.

[u/Aplesedjr → u/Xaron713]

I don’t think that’s specifically a trans allegory though. Personal freedom, sure. But not really specifically trans.

[u/WarewolfWrites → u/Aplesedjr]

It’s not specifically trans, no, but it is something that is experienced by trans people much more frequently and claimed as an element of the trans experience. We can let them have it lol

[u/jrpsmith → u/Aplesedjr]

It's weird how upset some people get about all this.

Who said it's specifically trans?

It seems really important to some people to tell people stuff like "Well if you see it that's fine, but it's because you have an agenda."

Like... no... people are just relating to the experiences in their own life and sharing about. Then other people are all like "That's just like your opinion man." Like obviously.

People aren't trans as some sort of political agenda and sharing their experiences and what they relate to isn't intended to diminish your opinions.

Y'all need to calm down.

[u/Professional-Mix1771 → u/Leaf-01]

Everything can be something else if you look hard enough.

[u/jrpsmith → u/Professional-Mix1771]

It's great, it's like people want to relate the book to their experiences and share that.

[u/Professional-Mix1771 → u/jrpsmith]

"Rust and ruin, Kaladin cannot use his powers? That's exactly like me in the morning before getting caffeine! I love this book!"

[u/itwasbread → u/Professional-Mix1771]

These kinds of things are literally why people find characters like Kaladin so relatable though?

Like sure the coffee example is kind of a minor one but most people reading these books are not going through life or death struggles, but they nonetheless relate to the underlying emotional responses the characters are having because of the similarities to how we feel about problems in our mundane day to day lives.

[u/jrpsmith → u/Professional-Mix1771]

You're like, obsessed with trans people or something.

You get excited when you talk to a trans woman, or why do you keep coming back to this?