The show was written from the perspective of writers who in their own lives were breathlessly excited to cast off their femininity like a bra at the end of a long work day, and it shows in the work in ways that can feel at best pretty inconsiderate to hyperfemme AMAB people https://t.co/jVrc5SonsK
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Both the aesthetic of the work and its narrative are pretty explicit about characterizing any expression of femininity outside the narrow window normative to the American queer aesthetic as something you're liberated FROM, not liberated BY because that's how the writers felt
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The ONE time the narrative actually shows an AMAB trans person after YEARS of depicting (via subtext, analogue, or otherwise) solely AFAB NBs/trans boys, they're an enby with an androgynous presentation, which, like, is FINE, but doesn't really validate/represent _trans women_
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Like the overarching vibe I get from the writers is that they don't actually believe women like me, or wanting to be a woman like me, is sensible or cool or consistent with their aesthetic Which, like, fine, good for them, but given its popularity it was frustrating to live with
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for most of the lifespan of the show, the themes of the narrative had not been so blatantly a celebration of healthy masculinity specifically, the direction the plot would go re: Rose Quartz was not totally obvious, so it was easy for trans femmes to believe the writers saw them
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And if you DID think there was going to be some kind of embrace or celebration of femininity in the story, then the final reveal of the series pretty much felt like writers kicking you in the balls
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Teen Steven does turn out to be a pretty conventional cishet teenage boy, although this is also when he's at his unhappiest and almost dies, so who knows
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It's certainly possible Steven's desperate need to get away from everyone he's ever known and wander across the world finding himself might end in transition
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