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I've seen a few people less familiar with JJJ in the comics think that it's unrealistic for the Daily Bugel to not be transphobic in their coverage of Spider-Woman, cause real newspapers are frequently horribly bigoted toward trans women.

What you need to know is that The Daily Bugel is consistently more progressive than the other NY papers in the marvel universe. Like, Jamison and the Bugel are pro MUTANT. The average Marvel citizen thinks that if a 4 year old girl develops fish scales on her face then she needs to be put down "for the good of society".

If you are looking for a parallel to real life coverage of trans women in media the most interesting angle is right here:

The Bugel somehow becomes the only paper that's Pro Spider-Woman, because the other papers become so violently Transmisogynistic that there needs to be a dissenting opinion, which is what the Bugel often does on social issues.

You can explain this by having Jamison realize his beef with spidy is petty and pointless, or by him just swallowing his pride to do the right thing, but it also opens the door to something even funnier: Jamison is pro Spider-Woman because he only hates Spider-MAN.

“Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.”

–Terry Pratchett, Snuff

Nonbinary, genderqueer and intersex people don't owe you; sex, agab, tme / tma status, what's in their pants, fertility status, conformity or any other kind of information along those lines.

Systems or plurals don't owe you their; origin/s, alter / head count, hosts name, triggers, disorder status, diagnosis status etc.

People don't owe you private information on command.

I would actually go as far as to say that MOST abuse is unintentional. I think most people will go through their lives without ever experiencing intentional abuse. People are abusive because they're selfish, because they're stressed, because they care more about what society thinks they should do than the impacts of their actions on their children and partners, because they think what they're doing is correct, because they've made it make sense in their own heads, because they think they can fix their victims, they think they can fix their relationships, they think they can stop you from leaving, they think they can make you a better partner to them, they think that means you need to do what they want. We've sort of constructed mental illness in a way that doing this shit to other people counts as a form of mental illness because it is anti social behavior in the literal sense— it is behavior that causes social harm.

I don't say any of this to excuse it. I think everyone needs to be more aware of this because if you think abuse has to be intentional you will never realize you are capable of abusive behavior. You will never realize you are being shitty to the people you love, because YOU know what you mean, YOU know you don't mean any harm. But you're doing harm. You need to pay attention to the impact you have on other people, and you need to do it all the time, Especially when you feel least capable of doing so. Sorry! You live in a society. Get your head out of your ass.

I humbly offer this contribution.

has anybody else noticed that the classic sci fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus features a Torment Nexus? that’s pretty problematic of the author

the main character eventually recognizes the torment nexus is bad but by that point I had already stopped reading the book because I don't condone the torment nexus, the narrative really should've condemned it outright :/