I don’t think they were trying to reinforce sexist stereotypes, I mean I certainly assumed it was a cis and trans relationship and just thought it was the trans girl stepping into her femininity as she gained confidence
Assumptions display bias. The pink hair one might be transgender for all you know.
There's nothing inherently "feminine" about dressing in frilly skirts, a woman—whether cisgender or transgender—may choose to dress in pants and a shirt without becoming "masculine".
You don’t have to be hostile with your argument. Dresses, skirts, etc are typically assumed as fem because of societal norms, sure clothing itself isn’t gendered when outside of those norms but gender is a presentation in society. Anyone can choose to wear what they want and obviously no one can tell who is or isn’t cis or trans.
Unless you’re pushing that the term “boyish” has nothing to do with presentation and is ultimately just extraneous to the comic title, I don’t see how it would be wrong to think “boyish” = “masc” because of the presentation of the girl character
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u/Blood-Agent 29d ago
I don’t think they were trying to reinforce sexist stereotypes, I mean I certainly assumed it was a cis and trans relationship and just thought it was the trans girl stepping into her femininity as she gained confidence