In topic: "Gio's Transmisogyny clarification?"

Saturday, August 23rd, 2025, 1:53 PM13 days ago

In original version of "The Unofficial Homestuck Collection Taken Down" (archived at: https://web.archive.org/web/20250808143054/https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/08/08/uhc-end/) Gio refers to Hussie as "alpha" (as in alpha male), "man", "guy" and uses he/him exclusively throughout the article. There was also a note at the bottom -- "I’ll be using he/him for Andrew since those are the pronouns James Roach, Miles, and Andrew’s legal representation use for him. If Andrew actually lists his preferred pronouns somewhere I’ll use them, but as far as I can tell he’s never unambiguously done that". Hussie has been using any/all pronouns for several years, and this note indicates Gio is aware of that on some level, but chose specifically to position her as a man despite this (again, not just by using he/him, but with very gendered language meant to paint them as agressive and abusive).


Gio did edit this after criticism, so it's not unreasonable to assume the article wasn't wholly motivated by *concious* transmisogyny, but painting people as like. Hysterical/overreacting or looking for problems where there aren't any is pretty silly. Not saying everybody in this thread has done that, just that it's a common line of thinking I've seen in wider discussion.


And like yes obviously if somebody uses any/all pronouns it's not transphobic to not alternate pronouns every few sentences. But as anybody who uses these pronouns will tell you, it's really noticable when people *only* use the ones associated with your agab for some mysterious reason. Roach/Miles and the legal team are closer with Hussie, so it's possible he's asked them to refer to him in specific ways when interfacing with the public (which is also a common thing for nonbinary people to do), so I don't think that's comparable to Gio choosing to refer to him in that way specifically for a 10k word hitpiece. But again the pronouns are less relevant here than the clearly misgendering language.

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Zolf