tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630474051264876855.post2135492050133912138..comments2023-10-28T09:13:42.153-05:00Comments on Lovely Lucy: Wandering Son - Hourou MusukoLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17230036199826087084noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630474051264876855.post-56789718046066859812011-01-16T21:58:49.221-06:002011-01-16T21:58:49.221-06:00I have read MISFILE but not in a long while. That&...I have read MISFILE but not in a long while. That's an interesting take on the genre of gender-bending and body-swap show; I had never really thought of them as a way for cisgender people to better understand the experiences of transgender people.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17230036199826087084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630474051264876855.post-35770995377566109492011-01-16T20:25:42.135-06:002011-01-16T20:25:42.135-06:00Sort of dealing with similar issues, but in a comp...Sort of dealing with similar issues, but in a completely different medium - Lucy, have you ever looked at the webcomic series MISFILE? It's not *exactly* about being transgender in the real-world sense, but I think it's a good way of helping cisgender people imagine what it would be like to experience gender dysphoria - I think it gave me a better understanding, anyway.<br /><br />The basic premise is that the main character is a boy who wakes up one morning to find that he's in a girl's body, and as far as anyone around can tell, he always has been. Unlike most male-to-female gender-swapped characters in such media, he doesn't think being a girl is suddenly awesome, and he spends most of the series trying to get back in his old body. The thing I think is interesting about it is that I think most guys, especially "nerd" guys, have fantasized about being girls at one point or another, and I worry that that can lead us to not really treating transgender people with the respect y'all deserve - because we think that our gender-swap fantasies are not that different from real gender dysphoria. But by reading MISFILE, I started to get an idea of what it would be like to be body-swapped against one's will, which is basically what I understand real transgender people have to deal with.<br /><br />I hope I phrased all of this appropriately, and without being offensive...Luke Lockharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18409059068316266605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630474051264876855.post-62068259455669639532011-01-16T18:24:06.462-06:002011-01-16T18:24:06.462-06:00I really love the series and have been following t...I really love the series and have been following the manga for awhile now. I really hope that the manganka will allow for her and Taka to transition while they are young, it would be a good new take reflecting the ways trans youth have been more and more accepted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com