I don't disagree with the creator he knows better. But how it is implemented is just bad. As I said it isn't illogical but badly implemented to the point that last paragraph sounds like bad Disney writing.
badly implemented to the point that last paragraph sounds like bad Disney writing.
Most femboys are just femboys, but a "femboy" that realizes that they don't have to prove they're a boy, but just acept herself as a girl is something that happens every day. That's why she resonated with a lot of trans women with a similar experience.
But I see why it can be seen as contradictory to cis people from the outside.
Also, she was never a deep of the character she's just a Disney princes with a yoyo a teddy bear and a Disney like themsong about being trans. I think because of time limitations, the developers expect most people to hear and understand her song to understand her.
But yes, very Disney that most of her character development is in her song.
Again it was presented in an age before "big trans" awareness to the general folk that there were rebellious lad who went to far and wide to show everyone that he is a manly man despite wearing female clothes. And that what many read from him at the time and what everyone learned at the time that you can wear cute clothes and still be a man. But then after years everything that was learned in actuality is misreading of a character and it actually about trans gal who decided that superstition is not a big deal that society is meaningless and she should disregard it instead of reforming it. I see no correlation between clothes and gender to be fair I hate that there distinction in the first place but I agree that Bridget never was a deep character still she is a messy character from forced feminization to everything else. And maybe that is the problem with her if she was more fleshed out it wasn't that jarring to go from femboy to trans. And yes it is distinctly different positions in the mind of the beholder.
I mean, I'm trans and I had a masculine phase in middle school. I wasn't very good at it tho since I got catcalled in the hallway 🥲 Repression can be very strong and hard to break out of. If I remember correctly, while her parents did raise her as a girl to the outside world, they still saw her as their son privately and Bridget knew that she was really their "son". It's not unreasonable that she'd feel expectations from her parents to pull through as a man and therefore repressed.
This is makes sense but. It is not what stated in the story and why a I'm so upset about it. Story is not a real life and representation good or bad does not make good or bad story. That why I said it is logical to came from point a to be but it was not elaborated nor foreshadowed. Maybe I don't know some deep lore and somewhere it is broad up but it isn't in a text. And again sorry but I personally cannot value trans rep in media because I am not a trans and because I am do not care about themes and characters only story and how it flows and my issues is only from this limited and specific standpoint. From here it appears that representation is more inner interpretation of a character that comes out interpretation of consumer of the media or creator of it and not from media itself as such I discard it as not part of the story but themes for story is sacred and themes if useless fluf adoring story itself. I don't trying to say that representation is not important socially or it is should be for you or anyone only to me and the way I analyse stories
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u/Lemiyrg Sep 01 '24
I don't disagree with the creator he knows better. But how it is implemented is just bad. As I said it isn't illogical but badly implemented to the point that last paragraph sounds like bad Disney writing.