GaveUp [she/her]

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  • But what aspect of the trans/genderqueer experience is this supposed to represent?

    My interpretation:

    Owen watching The Pink Opaque represents observing, exploring, and questioning her gender identity. That’s why when Matty (Owen’s inner female self trying to show her her real gender identity) first asks Owen to run away and she doesn’t follow her (doesn’t allow her egg to crack), the TV is shown burning during the scene where the police are investigating Matty’s disappearance (Owen burning her desire to question her gender identity anymore)

    When Owen watches The Pink Opaque again as an adult, she comments on how childish the show seems nowadays, because she’s ashamed that she ever questioned her gender identity when she was younger, an experience many trans people who cracked their eggs in adulthood go through

    There is no Isabel in the show because at that point, Owen had completely pushed down her desire to identify as a woman

    Sorry if this is hard to understand I’m kind of illiterate