EDIT: fwiw I hunted down this thread and it turns out that OP actually did some self-crit, which was more positive than I was expecting https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDigitalCircus/comments/1ucu9hl/jax_being_trans_and_my_opinion_as_a_cis_straight/
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I think I get it. They've watched the show for years and felt part of the fandom and then suddenly the only character they can personally relate to turns out to be something they can't relate to. Kinger isn't relateable to a 16 year old kid.
I understand feeling like that. It's just not a story written for a 16 year old straight cis boy, but with a time period of literal years for the product to be created and released you'd pick up a lot of those people until the reveal at the end and then they feel suddenly spurned.
This is different to if a show is released over a season of 8-12 weeks and then disappears forever. There's a different investment. These straight boys that became emotionally invested in Jax over the period of years that the animation was releasing for (along with fan art community etc) suddenly find themselves unable to relate at the very very end of it and feel a bit lost because of that. Not necessarily because they've got anything against trans people, but because something they invested themselves in for a long time suddenly becomes unrelateable at the end.
It's a problem not with the show or with the straight cis kid posting this imo. It's a problem with the very long development and release process that creates a fandom on social media like this where people are investing themselves in it for multiple years.
I think he uses some shitty wording in some of this but I'm not going to cyber bully a kid for not having great phrasing.
Time to put a copy of The Catcher in the Rye on this kid's desk so he can finally have a story about a straight cis teen boy wearing a mask of cruel cynicism and emotionally distant toxic masculinity, and see what happens!
Yeah you're not wrong there either but it's a kid, I believe most of them change. I think some straight cis kid hanging out in queer fandoms at 16 learning what he's learning has a better chance of turning out ok compared to the ones that aren't.
Oh, absolutely, there's no question about that.
Millennials who browsed Newgrounds way back in the day learned this. You wait until the entire series (or season) gets released before you watch it all at once. A lot of those series either never get finished or botch the ending or just have a massive tonal shift. The zoomer OP is learning this the hard way.
I think you make some great points, but I also agree with some of the commenters in the thread in that you don't really need to 100% identify with a character to identify with certain aspects of their character. I think finding ways to identify with people and characters not like you is important for developing empathy and really learning about other people.
Also, yeah, after reading through the actual thread I don't want to be too hard on him. It sounds like he really did learn at least some things from the discussion which is positive.
Yeah I agree too.
The thing is that this kid is looking for the self-insert and there isn't one for him. The self-insert he was looking for turned out to be a trans person.
He's probably better off with Shonen anime.