can we talk about troll gender. ive been dying to talk about troll gender all day. can we talk about troll gender?

but actually haha i think the 'hemospectrum=gender wayyy moreso than race' analysis is my personal favourite of your work, but i always struggle to like, explain it as an angle without just directly linking to ur work. so i guess this is less of a question and more me checking my work:

the 'point' of trolls being arbitrarily (at least by earth's standards of sex characteristics, lmao) gendered into 'boys and girls' is to highlight just how pointless/unhelpful many of the binaries/social systems that originated from earth actually are. like 'if caliborn just makes the felt guys because he wants them to be, why should anything be read into anyone's gender beyond "someone else wanted to call them this"'.

then, separately to this, alternia *does* have it's own home-grown variety of gender discrimination, based on assigning value to how psychic/strong/long u can live when ur one blood type or another. and *that* worldbuilding serves to recontextualise analogous discrimination in human social structures. 'tavros is stupid and weak because he's a bronze blood' sounds stupid and fake, and it SHOULD sound as stupid and fake as equivalent comments about flighty broads and their horseshit.

plus the 'THEN WHO'S FLYING THE PLANE?' nature of questioning where any of these ideas 'originated' in paradox space, along with doc scratch turning to camera and going 'yeah i made troll society suck ass to further my Evil Schemes™' also primes you to question the agenda behind how and why these systems propagate on earth. like is anything here actually deeper than some guy willing into existence new axises he can be 'better' than other people on.

...is that anything? lmao