Totally agree with your assessment about things not needing to be reclaimed. And I also thought you were asking a good question up top; why would a trans person write fanfiction of an IP belonging to a transphobic author? It has the same energy as casting POC as the slave-owning founding fathers in Hamilton. And you’re right. the answer I came up with is dissatisfying, but that was my first instinct trying to put myself in the shoes of someone who does that and come up with an answer. A lot of people believe in Reclaiming The Bad Thing for some reason. I agree it’s ill-advised.
oh sorry i didn’t mean to be so aggressive there, i could tell you weren’t saying that’s what you were doing and wasn’t trying to yell at you. these thoughts have just been in my head for a while and i needed to get them out
Totally agree with your assessment about things not needing to be reclaimed. And I also thought you were asking a good question up top; why would a trans person write fanfiction of an IP belonging to a transphobic author? It has the same energy as casting POC as the slave-owning founding fathers in Hamilton. And you’re right. the answer I came up with is dissatisfying, but that was my first instinct trying to put myself in the shoes of someone who does that and come up with an answer. A lot of people believe in Reclaiming The Bad Thing for some reason. I agree it’s ill-advised.
oh sorry i didn’t mean to be so aggressive there, i could tell you weren’t saying that’s what you were doing and wasn’t trying to yell at you. these thoughts have just been in my head for a while and i needed to get them out
i’m going to make it smaller