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