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i know the wednesday novel is most likely queerbaiting, and it’s not fair - but that’s not gonna stop me reading it. i know that they probably won’t end up together, because this always happens. but in my brain they will.

i don’t understand why they’d hire a transgender author who is known for writing queer stories if that’s not what they were going for. people are acting as if netflix and MGM had nothing to do with the making of the novel. when the book is literally licensed by them, meaning they’ve GOT to know what’s in it.

wednesday in the novel is clearly experiencing less-than-platonic feelings for enid, and yes, this may be queerbaiting, but i’m still gonna enjoy it. it’s closer than we’re ever gonna get in the show. (i wanna believe that im wrong, but idk - i feel like they’d be too scared to, especially with a franchise such as the addams family. you know how people react when media ‘turns’ things gay. its bad publicity, and they won’t wanna risk it)

obviously i have no idea what’ll happen in the show, and we get no say over the final decision. i believe having both of them figure themselves out is a great opportunity for character development. imagine enid, whose parents (mainly mother, but her father doesn’t exactly stand up for her) express their disappointment, and enid figuring herself out is an excellent way for her to see that she’s more than her parents judgement. (plus, i think the whole ‘conversion therapy for werewolves’ was a metaphor. and the fact that girly wears the lesbian flag in jumper form) and wednesday, who’s so adamant that she’s unfeeling and will never fall in love - only for her to come to the crushing realisation that not only is she very much capable of feeling things, she’s falling in love with her roommate. someone who’s the complete opposite of her. i feel like it’s such a good opportunity for them to explore the experiences of queer youth, how it feels to recognise these feelings, and the anxieties that come with them.

idk, i can’t see them doing it - they aren’t that brave. i think it’d be good if they did, but i think they care too much about how the show is perceived rather than the characters (the main reason being including wednesday in a love triangle, when girly very obviously wouldn’t find herself in a love triangle - in any universe).

my dear friend just joined tumblr and i was scrolling through terf tags so that they can, yknow, have a decent time on the internet, but now ive seen dozens of terf posts and i’m annoyed.

my least favorite thing is “why do the feelings of [trans women] always come before the safety of [cis] women?” like come on bro. be imaginative.

first of all, i’ve outlined many times before that most of the terf movement comes from radical feminist ideas of what men are- dangerous, always predatory and oppressive, and sexually sick. now, most men try to stay their distance, but trans women are feminine “men” who are actively trying to reside in “women’s spaces”. so they’re seen not as a passive threat you can fear but ultimately avoid, but as an active one going out of their way to harm you. they’ll obsessively point to one or two examples of this rather than the statistics on violence against trans women

its also a movement based on comfort rather than material danger, which they ironically think is reversed.

i’ve talked before on here about how discomfort is not harm- if you are in a public space and a transgender person is minding their own business, doing the same thing a cisgender woman would do, and YOU feel unsafe- that is not this person harming you, this is you being uncomfortable sharing a public space with someone. that is not on them, especially if theyre just minding their business. your problem with someone else who is doing nothing to you is just that, your problem

someone changing into a swim suit does not affect you. if you cant coexist in public, it is your job to remove yourself from a situation where you feel uncomfortable, not to demand everyone else leaves that public space for you.

there’s also the fact that even when trans women are victims, their safety is always devalued in comparison to cis women’s feeling.

take this for example

this seems insane because if you look at the reddit screenshots, it’s a trans woman saying she was abused and assaulted and was welcomed at the shelter she stayed at for her own safety. she had a positive experience with other women who valued her presence and she found she was able to be helpful in a community of other abused women. its nauseating to read the first paragraph and there is no compassion in this person’s post

she was abused! she was beaten! and she was welcomed and loved at a SHELTER! and yet op’s post with a couple hundred notes mocked her for taking a spot [from real victims] and it’s just… insane. there’s no compassion for an abused woman so long as she’s trans, because then her victimhood pales in comparison to the same situation but it’s happening to a cis woman.

i can’t have put it better than i did here

it all comes back to the idea of “the real victim” and “the clout chaser”. one is vulnerable and infantilized but ultimately cared for, defended even if they don’t need it, while the other does not need help or defense. they’re just getting off to the idea of being a victim and are, in fact, a threat.

trans female victims are always seen as secondary victims. either it didnt happen or it matters less than a cis woman who doesnt want to share a space with her. its not about cis womens safety, it’s about their feelings over trans women’s safety.

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