y'know the wild thing about a transfem reading of Ranma is that she does really come off as a trans girl not only because of how she acts about her girl form, but also like...holy shit she's got the traumatized childhood of being forced to be masculine that so many of us have. That resonates so hard - ThreadSky

vyriadurav.bsky.social • 88 days ago

y'know the wild thing about a transfem reading of Ranma is that she does really come off as a trans girl not only because of how she acts about her girl form, but also like...holy shit she's got the traumatized childhood of being forced to be masculine that so many of us have. That resonates so hard

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mayorfancyhat.bsky.social•88 days ago

Am I a trans woman of a certain age? Yes

Was watching Ranma 1/2 with my friends and feeling profoundly uncomfortable with the idea of them discovering how much I related to it a hugely influential moment for me? Also Yes.

(One third of that friend group is also out as trans now lol)

mayorfancyhat.bsky.social•88 days ago

Actually, I was a part of the friendgroup, obvs. 50% is trans, I'm bad at math

vyriadurav.bsky.social•88 days ago

moood, I read Ranma in the back of a church van at the age of 12 and nobody around me understood why I was fixated on it the way I was. 'What do you mean this is a curse? I want that! Where do I find these springs??'

mayorfancyhat.bsky.social•88 days ago

RIGHT!?

tatoleee.bsky.social•88 days ago

Yes it does

princessfelicie.neocities.org•88 days ago

Ranma is so much more emotive as a girl, too. Like she’s sassy in both forms sure, but it does feel like the sass is a shield from her own emotions when a guy, while the sass *is* her real emotions as a gal

princessfelicie.neocities.org•88 days ago

She’s so much more willing to just go along with shit when she’s a gal. Terrified about her image as a guy tho

araclaire.bsky.social•88 days ago

My egging moment when I was I kid with Ranma was when she was having "enjoying being a girl too much" moments. That sublime euphoria I had when she was happy being a girl was something Id found out later...

vyriadurav.bsky.social•88 days ago

I still can't believe this, iirc, predates egg as slang

araclaire.bsky.social•88 days ago

omfg

trishusband.itch.io•88 days ago

jemshyn.bsky.social•88 days ago

KYM puts the origin of the trans egg meme as August 23rd, 2016 with the Egg Mode entry in Urban Dictonary. A quick reverse image search on TinEye has this showing up (on a site that's no longer live) May 4, 2008.

So yeah, predates it by at least 8 years.

beedokfern.bsky.social•88 days ago

So many fics were the cat pit was to make her 'man up'.

gisellethe1337.bsky.social•88 days ago

Don't forget that she is like, SUCH a brat about the fact that she has more curves than Akane. Proud of it. That doesn't seem like very cisgender behaviour...

vyriadurav.bsky.social•88 days ago

like Ranma clearly enjoys being a girl, especially if she can figure out an 'excuse' to cover up her enjoyment, because so much of her life is ruled by her parents' demands that she be a man and a man in the way they desire. It's so similar to my own childhood I can't help but see myself in her

emthewildthing.bsky.social•88 days ago

Also when she gets kissed by Mikado feels like such a perfect example of getting gender euphoria and being completely disgusted by something not ok at the same time.

skadihehe.skadi.diy•88 days ago

It's so hard for me to read her as a guy as she's clearly comfortable as a girl plus the fact that she's afraid of turning back to a guy when she's in girl clothes - which can be read as both fear of humiliation and dysphoria, something that just screams pretransition trans girl

beedokfern.bsky.social•88 days ago

Somehow she's both well into her transition and also an egg at the same time.

bacchuslaureat.bsky.social•88 days ago

Yeah it helps to remember that her fiercest protestations are literally canonically like two weeks after she begins magic wuxia HRT and well within the first month she’s basically looking for any excuse possible to go girl mode

ariaegirl.bsky.social•88 days ago

I think Ranma 1/2 is, above all, a story of a trans person trying to live as the correct gender but not entirely able to give up some stuff on the other side. In transfem case:
- marriage
- children
- family expectations
- most of the cast being heteronormative and thinking "lesbians" are friends

weirdcontrails.bsky.social•88 days ago

Ranma's Dad's use of a child to get dowry (ahead of the fact!) does seem awfully close to so many Disney Princess stories, to boot. Like the default masculinity is only most preferred because it gets the family freebies. BIG HMM.

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