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I would say it's closer to a Chick Tract than anything: it presents a very one-sided view of a particular issue with strawman characters delivering simplistic arguments for the protagonist to knock down with their wise words. It even uses that obnoxious
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I would say it\'s closer to a Chick Tract than anything: it presents a very one-sided view of a particular issue with strawman characters delivering simplistic arguments for the protagonist to knock down with their wise words. It even uses that obnoxious \"behold as I speak wisdom\" face that Chick was fond of (mouth open, eyes mostly or completely closed, serene expression).
It\'s largely based on conflating being trans with gender politics, but these are \'\'not\'\' synonymous: it\'s entirely possible to be a conservative transsexual who rejects alternative gender definitions and sees being trans as a personal issue with nothing society needs to change except for accepting that someone can be \"born in the wrong body\" (something the comic explicitly rejects). These are the trans people who don\'t like the comic (well, them and the obnoxious \"gatekeeper\" types who say you need to have bottom surgery or you\'re not \"real\"). In addition it\'s woefully unrealistic in how it handles characters: not just in how inauthentic the main character\'s dialog is (everything is childishly simplified, but she talks like a disaffected 35-year-old), but that if you did half the things this kid does in real life you would get \'\'fucking killed\'\' outside of the bluest of blue states.
She also brings up some truly \'\'bizarre\'\' ideas like that not wanting to date a trans person is automatically transphobic, which suggests she thinks sexuality is a choice. Overall she\'s very inconsistent with her beliefs, like saying clothes have no gender but having her character object to wearing clothes associated with a particular gender.
The art is ugly and inconsistent, and the \"reviews\" cited above: two are listicles, one is an interview, and the Independent one isn\'t a review. That doesn\'t really prove there\'s any kind of fandom for it at all, nevermind a positive one.
That said, no real proof has been shown of a \'\'negative\'\' consensus either, probably because the comic is fairly obscure.
It\'s largely based on conflating being trans with gender politics, but these are \'\'not\'\' synonymous: it\'s entirely possible to be a conservative transsexual who rejects alternative gender definitions and sees being trans as a personal issue with nothing society needs to change except for accepting that someone can be \"born in the wrong body\" (something the comic explicitly rejects). These are the trans people who don\'t like the comic (well, them and the obnoxious \"gatekeeper\" types who say you need to have bottom surgery or you\'re not \"real\"). In addition it\'s woefully unrealistic in how it handles characters: not just in how inauthentic the main character\'s dialog is (everything is childishly simplified, but she talks like a disaffected 35-year-old), but that if you did half the things this kid does in real life you would get \'\'fucking killed\'\' outside of the bluest of blue states.
She also brings up some truly \'\'bizarre\'\' ideas like that not wanting to date a trans person is automatically transphobic, which suggests she thinks sexuality is a choice. Overall she\'s very inconsistent with her beliefs, like saying clothes have no gender but having her character object to wearing clothes associated with a particular gender.
The art is ugly and inconsistent, and the \"reviews\" cited above: two are listicles, one is an interview, and the Independent one isn\'t a review. That doesn\'t really prove there\'s any kind of fandom for it at all, nevermind a positive one.
That said, no real proof has been shown of a \'\'negative\'\' consensus either, probably because the comic is fairly obscure.
