I watched this movie planning on not seeing the parallels at all but okay yeah Duke is me online and Laurel is me offlinehttps://twitter.com/autogynamelia/status/1282622777871052800 …
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Everyone in this movie seems to know the main character is trans even though I don't see any reason the audience would know she was trans if it weren't in the description
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
I don't think the cis audience would've ever figured out that the character is trans without being told, but I think every single trans viewer would have picked up on it at some point.
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Replying to @autogynamelia @Nymphomachy
I think I would've gotten it at the point of her confrontation with her brother that begins Act 3
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I definitely got that her best friend from her hometown was gay even though they never discussed that directly either, and that his current home situation is not great as a result and that's why he's so envious of her moving away and so terrified of abandonment
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Replying to @arthur_affect @autogynamelia
I was kind of concerned that Andy was going to be a trans boy (it felt like that would have kludged up an otherwise very smooth narrative), but that didn't happen
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @autogynamelia
By not making Duke a T*RF they were able to make it possible for Laurel to be teetering on the verge of accepting her philosophy without making it too hamfisted a metaphor
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The whole "Why should I care about men's pain" thing could be extended in Laurel's mind to "Why should I care about cis pain", like there's a part of her during her brother's angry rant that's all "You haven't experienced one minute of dysphoria shut up"
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