Hey everyone! In case you haven’t noticed, this is a new community focused on NonPolitical Comics (NPCs), which essentially means no gloom and doom of the day stuff.

If you like the idea, help out by posting a comic that you enjoy for us to share!

  • NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    72·
    5 days ago

    Nope. The issue of trans people has basically always been political in my lifetime. I am not saying it should be political, or that it will always be considered political, but to say it isn’t political right now is ignoring the reality and is dismissing the real issues faced by transgender people. You can’t change reality by making statements because reality is not performative. The way the world works does not revolve around what you say or what you think.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      8·
      5 days ago

      Imagine defending trans erasure simply because you believe it’s performative to depict them in a non-political light.

      If the comic depicted people protesting with signs demanding trans rights, or a doctor saying “I’m sorry but due to the new regulations I cannot prescribe HRT,” then yeah that would have political undertones. If it depicted a dude in a red hat saying “gender is binary and assigned at birth” then that would also be political.

      But this is just a kid coming out to their parents, and the parents are only concerned with what that means for their bet; implying that they accept the kid’s chosen gender. If that’s political, then so is parents accepting a kid’s decision to study art in college, because some people make education a political topic.

      • NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        4 days ago

        You don’t get it. I am saying that indeed the existence of something is the thing that has been politicised. Some people legitimately believe that transgender is not a real thing and is instead some kind of a delusion or mental illness. Even ignoring that coming out as a concept is political. We wouldn’t have the concept of coming out if being queer hadn’t been prosecuted and stigmatized in the first place. Being gay or trans would just be a property someone has like having brown eyes.