I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants.
THIS.
Don’t forget kids, jewelweed is a natural counteragent to poison ivy rashes but it won’t do shit against whooping cough
Mint for nausea, valerian and chamomile for sleep, antibiotics for fucking infections.
imma say it. “kung fu panda” did more for body positivity and saying that you can be fat and still be healthy and liked than ANYTHING any beauty companies trying to get your money.
kfp also respects women more than any beauty company too.
also it had a positive relationship between an adopted child and his stepfather even after he found out he was adopted
Hey yknow how Viper was born without fangs, but instead of being rendered helpless as her family thought she’d be, she instead used her other skills to become the best warrior in her clan?
And how Tigress had severe, destructive anger issues when she was younger, but instead of being painted as a “problem child” she was instead taught her how to channel her emotions into something constructive?
And how Crane trained extra hard to impress a girl, and was by all rights the hero of his own story, but he still didn’t get her in the end? And how the girl isn’t shamed for it?
It’s almost as if you get more mileage out of treating your characters (and the people they resemble) with compassion than you do just shamelessly stamping them with your own misconceptions and hang ups.
Me when Cicero has been unusally quiet for the past 10 minutes only to find out he’s still in the mountains at some camp fighting off bandits and skeletons in my name
the wildest thing happened to me the other day i found out a male coworker is into irish music so i told him that my dad is an irish musician and would he like to come to a session and he straight up irl said to me “name 5 irish songs your dad knows”
he asked me if i play and i told him i played the fiddle when i was a teenager but havent played in years and he was like “oh cool. i play drums” as in a drum kit you know the famously folkish instrument the drum kit. bitch my name is molly o'reilly you really wanna challenge the legitimacy of my irish music involvement
This will be our new lives if capitalism continues to exist
Just so you all know, the fire was likely caused by a private electric company, that essentially has a monopoly here, and could have been prevented if they shut off power in that area for only a few hours.
They chose not to because they wanted to maximize profit potential. This was more important to them than the entire town of Paradise.
No Corporation is your friend. No Corporation will ever care about the good of others unless it is profitable to do so.
This is what happens when you dont use enough emissions free energy
Jenny’s narrative in my life as a teenage robot is implicitly trans, and her struggle with being viewed as a normal girl by society going so far as to wear a human suit is a perfect representation of trans people’s struggles to pass and be accepted by their communities. In this essay I will….
Trans people are not the only group to struggle to fit in to anywhere. It is not implicitly anything
Being a misfit isn’t exlusively trans. But take this show as you will.
Hey! No shit struggling to fit in is relatable to any marginalized community. I’m saying the very specific narrative of wanting to be a real girl, (which is text not subtext by the way, she at one point has a short speech about wanting to be a ‘real girl’) changing your name because it doesn’t match how you see yourself (Xj9 to Jenny), changing your appearance to pass as a real girl only for it not to work and to be seen and regarded by mainstream society as a literal freak, finally getting what you want and conforming to standards only for it to necessitate you changing who you are as a person, are all intensely trans experiences. Obviously the showrunners didn’t construct this narrative with a trans intent and there is the potential for parallels to other marginalized experiences, but Jenny’s character arc bears uncanny resemblance to the experience trans people have coming to terms with their genders.
Also it’s fucking trans.
Actually. I wouldn’t be too quick on saying there was no intent on the show runners part:
Like OP mentioned Jenny often is shown to experience disphoria. Especially in relation to her outwards appearance.
She also was shown to go through “puberty” in one episode. And the writers decided to give her symptoms that are traditionally associated with male puberty. Which horrified her despite people around her assuring her it’s just fine.
Jenny also learned mutiply times that she doesn’t need to comform to anything to be a real girl. She already is, the only difference is that she was made with diffrent parts.
While there certainly are diffrent interpretations, as is always the case with metaphores, it’s not unlikely that some of the writers explicitly had the trans community in mind while writing some of the episodes.
Jenny’s narrative is heavily tied to self image issues, insecurities about her identity and a feeling of issolation.
She is surrounded by people who are supportive of her but still can be ignorant and even hurtfull without intend (her mom and Brad come to mind which both clearly love her but both have upset her on multiply occasions due to not really getting her). She is constantly side eyed by society for potentially being dangerous. She is often treated like a sort of “freak show” by others and generally a lot of the people around her only give her respect if what she is doing is directly benifitial to them or is a source of amusement for them.
Then there is Sheldon who almost fetishizes her to a very uncomfortable amount.
All of them had induvidual arcs which relate back to said issues. Jenny’s mom starts viewing her more as a daughter then as a robot. Sheldon started to be less of a creep and developed more genuine feelings for Jenny based on her personality rather then on her being a robot.
Even Brad, who already was just the best, was called out and confronted with instances where he unintentionally was being hurtfull more then once.
So yeah. Jenny is very heavily trans coded and a lot of the narrative mirrors the experiences and struggels of real life trans teens.
And frankly I think that are too many coincidences to 100% rule out intent.
other people buying clothes: i chose this based on my hair color, skin tone, the time of year, the recommendations of 10 different fashion magazines and my horoscope
