*a bit more passive-aggressiveness, more mild this time*

[guardians_song]

.Really, what I'm saying applies (with varying degrees) to the entire sex/gender/sexuality equation. A gay man, a woman, a transsexual. All are different and should be written accordingly.

...*shakes head and facepalms*

(I could argue that there are effeminate gay men who behave in a stereotypically-feminine manner and butch women who behave in a stereotypically-masculine manner, and that's not even TOUCHING the "transsexual" part, but... best to just give up at this point before it spirals into a Tumblr-esque gender psychology wank.)

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[chatham_t_rivers]

Hmm. Can I have a context for this?

It's certainly something interesting to talk about. My focus when writing is usually on the character first--sexuality is an aspect of a character, yes, but it's not their WHOLE character. Otherwise they're just a stereotype, and I'm saying this as someone who (at least tries to) write very gender orientation/sexuality-positive work. ...Unless I'm throwing a two-year temper tantrum, but let's disregard that.

that's not even TOUCHING the "transsexual" part

In my very firm opinion, unless you're handing a transgendered/transsexual transition, you should write a transsexual/transgender character as the gender they want to be addressed as. Period. (My OC Candy is actually transgendered herself, and I was once in an RP where France was a FtM transgender, and I have my eye on another prompt where Film Brain is a FtM transgender. Let's not even go into Shakespeare and genderplay in HIS work.)

[guardians_song]

Context is the previous entry, which was a reaction to the same person (and others), tossing around the "all slash sucks"/"making a character a stereotypical uke is making him a WOMAN!" lines. So... I'm not inclined to view this line charitably.

And yes! I agree! Which is part of my objection to that comment - the idea that gender/sexuality is an overriding part of a character's personality.

I think we're also agreeing with the trans part - by not even touching, I meant 'Ahahaha, oh wow, a trans person cannot be a woman or a gay man, and must be something totally separate from either? REALLY?' *sigh* As I said, though, I didn't want to set off a Tumblr-esque genderwank... particularly since I had an uncomfortable feeling that it wasn't going to make a dent.