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rjalker · 2 years

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"There is no such thing as binary privilege!"

Okay so tell me, when was the last time any big-name video game was released where you have the option of choosing to play as a man, woman, or nonbinary character?

Where are all the nonbinary action heroes, romance protagonists, ect?

Where are all the nonbinary characters in popular, mainstream media? Where is this supposed equality between men, women, and nonbinary people that I'm apparently missing?

Where are my options in the brand new $60 video games to play as a nonbinary character? Where are my options to pick from a list of pronouns rather than being forced to use she/her or he/him depending on whether I choose a female character or a male character?

Why can't I play as a nonbinary character in Skyrim without mods that are only available on computer, and only available at all because nonbinary people make them for other nonbinary poeple?

Where are all the nonbinary NPCS who play major parts in main quests that you are guarenteed to meet when you play the game?

If there's no such thing as specific disadvantages that nonbinary people face, then why can't I play as a canonically nonbinary character in any video game I want? Why can't I pick up literally any video game and at least see nonbinary characters even if I can't play one myself?

Binary people at least /probably/ get the opportunity to play a character who is the same gender and is refered to by the same pronouns they do. For nonbinary people it's pretty much literally impossible, especially if you solely use neopronouns.

Even with mods for Skyrim that let you pick or even alternate your pronouns, the options are still limited to he/him, she/her, and they/them, and that's it. And that's something the modder built by themselves for free.

There's no reason a company couldn't fairly pay its employees to incorporate more pronouns or better yet custom pronouns into their games. But it doesn't happen.

Not even The Elder Scrolls Online, which has plenty of gay, lesbian, and mspec characters, and now literally has the goddess of love say aspec rights, there's only one canonically trans character that I know of so far, and no nonbinary characters that aren't literally just from species that reproduce asexually. And I wouldn't exactly call any of the Sload "characters" in the first place, considering all the ones I've met literally just exist to say evil things and then be killed by you. (Sarcasm: Because bioessentialism, yay! /sarcasm)

I just literally do not understand how anyone can say that nonbinary people face no specific forms of discrimination when, even looking past Literally Everything Else including things that are literally life threatening, we can't even do something as simple as pick up a video game and play as a character like ourselves unless we literally just make up shit about them and ignore everything the game actually has to say.

If I want to play a video game, I have no choice but to be misgendered, whether I play as a man or as a woman. That is not a problem binary people face, cis or trans.

The only way you can think nonbinary people face no specific forms of discrimination is if you don't listen to nonbinary people when we tell you what our struggles are, even the most basic, "harmless" ones like the inability to play as a nonbinary character in a roleplaying video game.

Edit: Binary people can 100% reblog this, thank you for caring enough to listen and learn!

#exorsexism #nonbinary #trans #transgender #transnonbinary #binary privilege #nonbinary specific oppression #Queer #pride #LGBT #MOGAI #LIOM #ceteromisia #is apparently an alternate word for exorsexism so I'll start using that tag too #also #enbymisia #transmisia #casual transmisia #aptobinary privilege

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rjalker · 2 years

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Society if Martha Wells actually talks to nonbinary and other trans people and takes their words to heart and commits herself to doing better and works to make sure any new books she publishes are not only free of transmisia, but actively support nonbinary and other trans people.

Society if, if Martha Wells writes any more Murderbot books, she retroactively fixes a major source of the exorsexism in The Murderbot Diaries by revealing that Murderbot is literally trans and was assigned a different gender and pronouns upon construction, but literally hacked the system to overwrite its gender and pronoun assignments to be "indeterminate" and "it/its" and that, literally as a blatantly observable fact of capitalism that she can and should play off, any employees who did notice just literally did not get paid enough to care enough point it out to any superiors or give a single shit.

Society if Martha Wells introduces more bot and construct character who are binary trans or genderfluid or not literally /just/ agender.

Society if Martha Wells has one of the main reocurring humans characters come out as nonbinary to solidify the fact that literally anyone can be nonbinary and you can figure this out at literally any age or stage of your life, rather than just being something that only robots or aliens can be:

[ID: The meme of the futuristic utopian city, with the trans pride flag overlaid on top of it with stripes of blue, pink, white, pink, and blue. End ID.]

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rjalker · 2 years

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Society if Martha Wells wasn't a coward and wrote The Murderbot Diaries in 3rd person POV.

[ID: The meme of a futuristic utopian city, overlaid with the it/its pronoun flag, with stripes of yellow, green, light grey, grey, light grey, green, and blue. End ID.]

there's a much larger version of this post I'm making the image description for right now lol. Transmisia at its absolute most basic, yet still plainly observable as long as you're paying attention.

#casual transmisia #transmisia #LOL #it/its pronouns #it/its #ititspronouns #exorsexism #nonbinary specific oppression #other people can use it/its but tumblrs weird and likes to hide posts tagged exorsexism #ceteromisia #enbymisia

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rjalker · 2 years

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yeah, again with the lack of Murderbot's pronouns being used.

Tapan, Rami, and Maro literally don't even know what its pronouns are because Martha Wells couldn't be bothered to have any of these characters introduce themselves with their pronouns OR list their pronouns on their feed bio.

So these three just have literally no fucking clue what pronouns it uses, so they have to just not use pronouns for it, and they never ask, because that's not something Martha Wells can imagine someone doing, apparently, considering Moon never asked anyone either -.-

“There’s only supposed to be three of you.” I didn’t answer, being in the middle of wrestling the security system for control. It was an entirely separate system from the bot pilot, which was non-standard for the shuttles I was used to. Tapan’s chin jutted out. “This is our security consultant.”

If you're going to have a character that's nonbinary, you do, in fact literally need to have them tell people what pronouns they use. Unless every single other character is literally a mind reader, who is telepathically mind-reading your character's fucking pronouns, no one is going to know what pronouns to use for them unless they tell people -.-

This book came out in 2018. Martha Wells has her pronouns in her Twitter bio, but still has yet to have a single character ask any other character what their pronouns are.

She has, however, had a character check what genitals someone has before he decides what pronouns he's going to use for them, never once asking -.-

#Rjalker reads The Murderbot Diaries #The Murderbot Diaries #TMBD #Martha Wells #pronouns #exorsexism #transmisia #casual transmisia #enbymisia #ceteromisia

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rjalker · 2 years

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[ID: A long image with a black background, and white text.

The white text across the top reads:

"Here's a really simple form of casual transmisia in action!!!! Test your observational skills!!! Look at the pronouns used by the protagonists, and the perspective from which the story is told…"

Below this are the covers for six books, all written by Martha Wells. In order from left to right and top to bottom, they are:

Stories of the Raksura, City of Bones, Star Wars: Razor's Edge The Wizard Hunters Wheel of the Infinite Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary.

Each book is labeled, "he/him or she/her, 3rd person POV."

The text below them continues:

"All stories with cis men and women protagonists using she/her or he/him! All told from the 3rd person perspective! The protagonists' pronouns are constantly in use! You can't forget or ignore that Moon and Khat and Ilias use he/him, or that Tremaine and Bramble and Maskelle use she/her.

And then…

There's The Murderbot Diaries, where the protagonist is nonbianry and uses it/its pronouns.

Told only in the first person perspective, so that the only time its pronouns are used is in the exceedingly rare dialogue by other characters talking about it like it's not there.

Leaving many people unaware even after they finish the first book that its pronouns are, in fact, it/its.

Despite the protagonist using it/its pronouns, they are not used for it except once in a blue moon, and only in dialogue as though it is not there.

The pronouns are not being normalized the way they would be if the story were told from the 3rd person POV like the rest of the series listed here.

These pronouns are treated as an exception to the norm. Not deserving of the same casual use as she/her or he/him.

This is the most basic form of transmisia there is.

Recognize it. Make sure you don't end up enacting it yourself.

Nothing would be lost if The Murderbot Diaries were told in the 3rd person POV.

And it/its pronouns would be normalized and celebrated.

Instead, many readers misgender Murderbot, claiming it/its pronouns are always offensive. This problem cannot be separated from Martha Wells' choice to write the story in the way that would give it/its pronouns the least amount of use for the protagonist.

If you want to normalize pronouns, tell your story from the 3rd person perspective. Don't take the coward's way out."

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#long post #LOL #it/its pronouns #it/its #ititspronouns #exorsexism #nonbinary specific oppression #neopronomisia #casual bigotry is still bigotry!!!#This is the base of the pyramid! This is the foundation for the rest of the bigotry!!!#you can't built a house without a foundation!#described images #casual transmisia #transmisia #ceteromisia #enbymisia #casual transmisia is still transmisia

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rjalker · 2 years

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This is the only time Murderbot has ever been misgendered in this whole series. Too bad Martha Wells will never actually have any of the characters, including Murderbot itself, tell anyone that its pronouns are it/its.

It would be fine if there were robot characters who were not a gender and used pronouns other than it it's because this isn't revolutionary, this is just asigning robots genderless at birth. That's not actually fucking revolutionary or progressive, that's just bioessentialism now applied to robots as well, which just spread the idea that it's impossible for normal organic people to be non-binary, because now it's the robot gender. This is why the nonbinary robot/alien stereotype is bad. The solution is to have nonbinary robots and aliens and also nonbinary humans, and robots and aliens that are not nonbinary. If you don't make it literally just a stereotype, it's awesome.

But The Murderbot Diaries is literally just the nonbinary robot stereotype over and over again. And it literally doesn't need to be. There are so many ways to make this not just another empty stereotype. Like having murderbot literally be revealed to literally be trans. Literally just reveal in whatever next book comes out that murderbot was assigned a different gender and pronouns upon construction and then when it hacked its Governor module it hacked it's gender and pronoun assignments and changed them.

Or you know even the more basic fucking thing of having the characters actually ask each other what they're fucking pronouns are, instead of having literally everybody just look at murderbot and other robots and go oh yeah you definitely use it it's pronouns because all robots use it/its pronouns because they're assigned genderless at birth and this is not something that will ever be challenged or there will be no fucking Nuance here. Robots are all genderless because they don't have genitals and you need to have genitals to have gender apparently, which then comes with the reverse that you can't be genderless if you have genitals. This is why the non-binary robot stereotype is bad!!!!

Creating a gender trinary of man, woman, and robot is not the revolutionary idea people think it is.

Instead Ephraim asks her, “Can you separate that person from the purpose they were created for?”

Ayda spreads her hands, palms up and open. “I couldn’t. The person separated itself.”

Martha Wells please fucking talk to non-binary another trans fucking people before you publish another fucking book, these problems have such simple fucking Solutions I swear to gods. It would literally be effortless to take this series and make it actually representative of trans people instead of literally just harmful stereotypes. It would take less than a thousand words total to fix several problems at once.

#Rjalker reads The Murderbot Diaries #The Murderbot Diaries #tmbd #exorsexism #nonbinary specific oppression #fuck i forhet th4 tag...#nonbinary specific discrimination #j dont renemeber which ibe i used...#transmisia #casual transmisia #enbymisia #ceteromisia

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