Racing Turtles

one of the weird things i noticed watching the phantom menace yesterday is that when he first meets and fights darth maul, qui-gon and obi-wan both use it/its pronouns for maul. not sure what was going on there

the simplest explanation is the filmmakers want you conceive of maul as not-quite-human, some sort of demonic entity, being as he is an evil space wizard. the funnier answer is that the force gives jedi the ability to perceive people's pronouns and maul has some boydyke shit going on

the dark side of the force is a pathway to many genders some would consider.... unnatural

before i was a faggot or a tranny or an autist i was weird and surprisingly just being weird is enough to make people treat you like all of the above

"why are so many of your friends queer" because they're the only people who accepted me as a weird neurodivergent teenager when it felt like the whole world was against us and everything mattered too much.

imagine if there was a magic potion that made you feel hot and love your body and the only downside is that a vocal minority of the population has decided that feeling hot and loving your body makes you essentially the same as a child predator (this same group doesn't actually have any problems with actual child abuse though). this is a thought experiment with no real life applications