oak23:

oak23:

and wow it’s surprising how fucking quickly people forget how fucking often gay cis men and trans women were conflated for one another that a character like Him from PPG can be a huge damaging stereotype that affects both marginalised groups

So when someone points to media that predates the 2010s of a problematic character and calls the presentation transphobic, your instinct should NOT to go “Well actually sweaty,,,, the character is obviously just a cis man using gay stereotypes not transphobia so it’s homophobic not transphobic”.

Because while they’re not the same, homophobia and transphobia has ALWAYS fucking occupied the same space in mainstream media for deviating outside of expected gender norms ESPECIALLY when the shitty characters have been made by privileged people who never had to experience that kind of violence in their god damn lives.

You can never separate homophobia and transphobia enough to say one can’t implicate the other especially when it comes from straight cis people. THIS is why it is so fucking important to remember that sexual and gender identity needs solidarity in this shitty fucking world when the people beating us down don’t fucking care about the specifics.