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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It freaked me out. What was that about? Was it something with trans?[/quote]

I hadn't seen it until I saw this thread.  I'm a trans woman and after watching it, it seems pretty obvious to me that the person in the video is a nonbinary AFAB person, most likely on testosterone.  It's clearly queer coded and the person is clearly supposed to be gender nonconforming and almost certainly nonbinary.  They could have made it more obvious with something like a trans flag but that's probably too on the nose for cis viewers.  I'd wager the only reason that there wasn't a blahaj in the video is because it's an Ikea product.  If you're not familiar, it's a large and inexpensive stuffed shark from Ikea that happens to have the same colors as the trans flag and has become a thing in trans culture.[/quote]

I don’t know. I thought it was about a girl accepting herself as she is with a mustache rather than conform to societal standards, as many women have a mustache if they don’t wax it off. I don’t think everyone nonconforming to societal standards needs to be trans or non-binary. Yes, I’m cis, but also that’s my take on it and the audience is everyone. Maybe it’s vague so we can all take from it as we see fit, and in that case it’s well done. We can all see ourselves in that girl.

I don’t like it mostly because I think, to me, it’s like she wants desperately to find acceptance through buying things on Amazon. It’s just a weird message. [/quote]
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I assumed it was about a woman unlearning toxic beauty standards. Why does everything like this have to mean "queer coded"? This is like how they decided Nymphadora Tonks had to be nonbinary because being a tomboy or an unconventional woman was bigoted.[/quote]
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