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0 pointsslg8mo ago0 comments

The Matrix is an earlier and I think more impactful example of this. That is a movie made by two trans filmmakers and with hindsight it is clearly an exploration of their own identities. Yet somehow it has been co-opted by people with diametrically opposed political and gender ideologies[1]. That has to be incredibly frustrating as an artist and I bet many people have seen that sort of reaction and go out of their way to make it more difficult for people to be that wrong about their art.

[1] - https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2...

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lupire8mo ago

The idea of living in a simulation was well imagined separate from trans identity.

The people in the Matrix aren't trans -- they are the same people in the same bodies whether they are in or out of simulation.

It's OK for a trans person to make a movie with no trans content that doesn't only make sense from a trans perspective.

slgOP8mo ago

This is an ironic reply as like those fans of the Matrix, you appear to be reading something different in what I said than what I intended.

I'm not saying the trans reading of The Matrix is the only valid reading of that movie. However, anti-trans folks and their ideologically peers reading the movie as supporting their worldview is objectively not the intended reading and therefore is likely incredibly frustrating to the trans creators. It is easy to imagine other authors seeing that and wanting to avoid that type of gross misreading of their work.

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