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/
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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That only happened in your head. I did not call you immature until you started swearing at me unprovoked.
You went at them for talking about a cartoon on the assumption that cartoons are the only media they consume. That's pretty fucking provocative. Also rude and uncalled for.
I didn't "go at them". I gave my opinion on a cartoon. People then came at me completely out of proportion because I was criticizing their treats.
you suck
Someone offered their opinion of a cartoon and you responded on the assumption that that was all they watched. Very insulting.
My initial response was strictly my opinion on the cartoon itself.
It is really funny to me to call an independent animation production made by a trans woman that is more than anything else about how many trans women engage in incredibly toxic repression that ends up hurting themselves and everyone around them, and the permanent, fatal consequences of doubling down on that repression, a 'treat'.
Do you think TADC is just a 'treat' simply because it had the good luck to become incredibly popular? Because I strongly disagree. I find it one of the most compelling and relatable depictions of a trans woman in fiction, period, and I honestly believe that TADC is probably going to play a role in cracking many eggs and preventing many suicides because of that fact.
Maybe investigate the thing you're talking about before writing it off because it has bright colors or whatever. The success of TADC has been a breath of fresh air for a lot of trans women I know, because most of them have NEVER seen a popular depiction of a trans woman that actually reflected our reality, that actually reflects the consequences of the cisheteronormative society we live in, that actually reflects many modern trans women in a realistic way instead of being some cis persons misunderstood, idealized image.
And all that at a time of increasing oppression of transgender people.
I guess you didn't pick up on all that. Maybe Gooseworx should've made the characters state their emotions even more clearly, it seems like the show was a little too mature for where you're at right now.
This sneering derision you hold for the notion of people liking a piece of media that you don't (fed by some unexamined ableism, judging by your moderation history and comments about "emotionally stunted adult children") and that they might find some emotional resonance in it indicates a chasm of emotional maturity far greater than the 30something YA readers you've made into your personal specter.
And I say this as someone who also holds a dislike of the show for their own reasons, so find a different reason to write me off. At least I actually investigated it rather than parading around and shouting to the high heavens what a terribly smart and above it all boy I am.
In my initial response I explicitly said that I liked the piece of media. Now I'm exclusively responding to the disproportionate number of people I seem to have angered by pointing out that the writing in it is extremely on the nose and obvious, which it is.
Your comments are public. I am not naive enough to believe that is only what you were saying. Attempting to paint over backhanded smug garbage about media taste not being on a high enough level as being just "expressing your opinion" on it, especially since you took the mask off and allowed the ableism fueling it to show (modlogs are public too remember), is really gross. There's a reason you kept getting modsniped.
Also let the irony escape no one that you also said all this wearing an Aqua Teen avatar, a show with such lofty mature writing as "what if a banana sexually assaulted people for twelve minutes" or "what if Hitler was a balloon and stopped the Holocaust because he liked Adam Sandler movies".
Never underestimate internet forum's ability to make you spend an obscene amount of time defending something you don't even like because the haters dislike it for the wrong reasons.
My initial comment asserted exactly one thing: that TADC has simplistic writing and that younger people probably appreciate that. After that, people started swearing at me, which is when I asserted that people shouldn't limit themselves to just watching simplistic media. After that, more people swore at me, which is when I got mad, insulted the original person, and the mods nuked my comments to that point.
My avatar was and remains a total non-sequitur.
It is not ableism to say that a person shouldn't keep consuming children's media exclusively for their entire life.
Sure let's check that.
Hmm. And then as for "After that, people started swearing at me, which is when I asserted that people shouldn't limit themselves to just watching simplistic media", someone very justifiably told you to fuck off for that very backhanded sanctimonious bit about "if your media taste is still at that level", you responded with "idk how old you are, but a millennial should be consuming media more challenging than TADC. Tell me I'm wrong." which is very much NOT just saying people shouldn't limit themselves to simplistic media, and is entirely rendering judgement.
and THAT is where the ableism comes in. This has nothing to do with "exclusively consuming children's media" or "limiting themselves to just watching simplistic media". I frankly do not care how frustrated you are at someone for committing the high crime of telling you to fuck off, you don't get to pull a Vaush and start spewing reactionary dogwater just because you deem the other person bad.
you are seriously insufferable man the reddit bro is coming from inside the house here why are you like this
I reiterate that my initial comment on this was just about the show having simplistic writing, then people started jumping down my throat.
suck shit out of my ass