Crimson Foxtail wrote:I mean, I've seen plenty of people upset about this episode - maybe not in this thread, but it's definitely a sentiment a lot of people have - and yeah, a lot of people here were fine with the episode, but that doesn't change the fact that
a lot of people still weren't so... Yeah, many things were done wrong.
Reality doesn't really work that way. People can be upset about things all they want, regardless of how they justify it to themselves and then try to convince people of it. The fact that people were upset about something doesn't mean anyone did anything wrong, and in this case, no one did anything wrong. In fact, there's nothing in this episode that has anything to do with transgender anything, which is why I'm struggling to understand why so many people are calling it transphobic. At no point did Big Mac struggle with his real identity, look in the mirror every day and hate who he is, or feel uncomfortable being who he was born. He didn't face any discrimination inside or outside of his clothing choices, either. This was a standard cartoon "Mr Doubtfire" reimagining: where a guy needs to look like a girl to do an event with his sister. Since it's a cartoon, it's done for the novelty of it. That's it.
It was an appearance thing: No trans-anything, no personal gender struggles, no inner-demons, nothing at all like that.
Anyone trying to project more meaning into Big Mac's character or trying to "headcanon" more behind Big Mac's costume or actions is looking too hard. The "outrage" behind this episode is just another incident of people who like to pick and chose what they want in the alphabet soup non-straight sexuality has become and then
force how they want people to act on everyone else. If the people offended by the episode think that a man crossdressing, wearing women's clothing and appearing like a woman while in costume (and [u]only[u/] while in costume) is the same thing as the reality and struggles of actually being transgendered, I think that's pretty darn transphobic in itself.
I think it's a shame the show's staff have to deal with these kinds of people on Twitter and other social media (including the crazies who find the means to to conventions), and between this, Derpygate, Princess Twilight, and so many other [u]imagined and totally unimportant[[u] slights against a minuscule but insanely loud minority of people who call themselves fans and harass the show's staff, I'm surprised so many of them are still sticking around with us and participating so actively with the fandom's members. What upsets me is the possibility the loud fans make the show staff feel disillusioned with the show as well as the fans, so more power to them. :applejackholdingamugofcider: