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  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Selling people identities and then hitting them up with recurring billing to maintain gender as a lifestyle brand is awful.

    What do you mean by this?

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      I mean fashion culture as a stand in for identity effectively creates a recurring cost to that identity. If you need to shop at Hot Topic or Banana Republic and wear at least fifteen pieces of flare to feel included in your cliche, your identity has been commodified.

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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        1 year ago

        That's the case with some trans people just as it is with some cis people. Just because someone is trans doesn't mean they be shopping more than anyone else. Tbh the majority of my clothes are hand-me-downs from cis women I know, and a lot of the rest are from thrift stores.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          1 year ago

          That’s the case with some trans people just as it is with some cis people.

          Absolutely. And the comic has plenty of criticism for fashion as a substitute for identity in the cis-het world as well.

          Tbh the majority of my clothes are hand-me-downs from cis women I know, and a lot of the rest are from thrift stores.

          Right. Which is where a lot of the author's critic on trans people really falls apart.

          It seems like Tatsuya has never met a trans person IRL. Or, of he has, its only been in some kind of heated argument over his comic.