Arcane, the new 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:League of Legends animated show on Netflix, has been a pleasant surprise so far. With only a vague knowledge of the game’s world, it has still managed to pull me in with its compelling story and heartfelt relationships, while the animation feels fresh and origina💫l in comparison to the diet Rick & Morty aesthetic every single new animated show has these days. Hailee Steinfeld continues 𒁃to quietly prove there’s nothing she can’t excel at, and the act one rollout offers a decent balance between ‘must binge now’ and the drawn out weekly wait of cable. Packed in with all these pleasant surprises however is a rather nasty one - a blink and you’ll miss it piece of transphobia.

Unfortunately, I didn’t blink. I suspect a lot of people will have, and it’s unlikely the incident will leave trans circles. But let’s get to the incident before we deal with the fallout. The first episode begins with the two LoL Champions, Vi and Jinx - the latter currently going by the name ‘Powder’ - working on a heist in the rich district of Piltover before hig๊h-tailing it back to the underground slums of Zaun. It’s your classic rich-poor dichotomy, and it’s shown in classic ways. Zaun is dark and dreary. Filthy cobblestones line the roads. Rough men are hunched over piss-coloured beer served in dirty steins. Prostitutes walk the streets. It’s not exactly original, but it gets the job done.

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Two of these sex workers are shoved off to the side as the undesirables - yet in order to showcase the town’s undesirability, the show offers them the spotlight. The first of these women is an old, shrivelled up prune, and the other is a trans woman. While𒀰 the show never explicitly states this person is trans, their square jaw, huge hands, broad shoulders, and masculine, poorly painted face are all supposed to show that the character is trans. Why? If I had even the faintest idea I’d tell you.

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But wait, aren’t I being transphobic by assuming a masculine looking woman is trans? Well, no. While short-haired, stocky cis women in real life have fallen victim to transphobia and been chased out of bathrooms by gender critical clowns, this character is not a person in real life. They are a cartoon character placed in a stereotypical trans job, drawn as unflatteringly as possible, an♉d designed with several masculine features being deliberately accentuated. There’s no ‘gotcha’ to be found in the fact the show never labels this person as trans - that is clearly the intention.

Even without the punching down caricature, just having an unnamed trans sex worker as your only trans rep is already extremely worrying. Tangerine, a film about trans sex workers starring actual trans people, aims to explore the reasons why trans people disproportionately become sex workers, and delves beyond the typical port𝄹rayal. Having a trans sex worker as a character is not an inherently negative thing, but it is clearly being used as one here. There is zero reason for this character to exist beyond a cheap laugh, and in a show that doesn’t even tout itself as a comedy, why on earth is it there?

But again, many people will blink. There are two outcomes here. Firstly, only trans people will notice and our concerns will largely be ignored, if they’re even heard at all. Secondly, because many trans people are Terminally Online, someone who rightfully feels aggrieved that Arcane has included such a poor depiction of trans people will either phrase their concerns in a clumsy way or will go way over the top, and that’s the thing that will be picked up on. Trans people as a collective will then be blamed for their snowflakওe reaction to being kicked 🐎down in the dirt again, when all most of us have said about it is how disappointing it is to see Arcane instigate an unnecessary drive-by against our community without even attempting to justify it within the story.

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Will anyone attempt to link this back to Netflix, who only recently platformed Dave Chapp🐼elle’s jokes about Team TERF and culled the trans employees who protested the systems that allowed that to happen? Trans employees that, despite being hit with the ‘cancel culture&r𒁏squo; stick, at no point asked for Chappelle’s stand-up to be taken down, and were themselves effectively ‘cancel🅷led’ when Netflix refused to hear them out and eventually fired them? No, there will be no discussion of the issues around a lack of trans and queer voices in our media, or in how the rampant increase in transphobia within leading government𝓰s has seen a rise i🗹n trans issues being treated with disdain. This was just a funny cartoon of a prostitute with big hands! Trust you snowflakes to make it about yourselves, eh?

Again, Arcane has mostly been pretty great so far. I like Vi and I love Jinx. The harmony of magic and science is a fresh take on an old idea, and the best adjective I have for the animation ꦅis ‘ruggedly handsome’. It’s a good show. This bit was extremely weird and unnecessary though, and what makes it all the more disappointing is that no one is going to care.

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