7:25 On that note, it seems like a lot of fan art has gotten intentionally uglier, especially if you look at tumblr tags-- ten years ago, it was just because of amateur skill that proportions would be off or other mistakes along those lines, but these days there seems to be a deliberate stylistic trend of making characters "realistic" by adding jarring characteristics like extra fatness, stretch marks, body hair, etc. that never existed in the original character design. You can see this most clearly with reimagined anime characters. Anime as a medium is very minimalistic in how bodies are drawn, plus it's stylized heavily in favor of Asian beauty standards, so tumblresque western fan art can look pretty grotesque as a result since it's so far removed from the original design.
It's almost as if they think prefering to look at attractive people is somehow bigotry. So they're conditioning themselves to idolise ugliness for woke points.
I remember reading a fic where one of the male characters was written as a trans guy and it completely messed with my head like, I'm reading it as an escape it doesn't make me feel better that this character is now as messed up as I am wanting to be a guy. I'd rather him just be a guy
for the first few minutes I thought you were wearing colored contacts, but it’s actually your natural color! what a cool shade of green… love the cosplay and your perspective on things. your insight is super interesting
Only 30 minutes in, your perspective on things is always so unique and engaging. Fandom isn't my thing but I like to hear you talk about it. You really have been around mentally so to speak. Seems like the hard travelling has levelled out for a bit.anyways Court I think when you find someone who gets you- it's gonna be the jackpot
@@FrankQpublic-tn5yg What a serendipitous comment. I'm currently facing another relationship ending with yet another person who doesn't understand me. I doubt there is anyone out there for me. I just have to learn to like being alone. I used to be like that as a kid.
this. the "x will turn your kid y" fear mongering has been going on for ages, targeting all kinds of things, and people still fall for it. humanity never changes🤷🏻
Just watch Ten minute of your video,i already agreed with your Opinion..alot of people to be honest especially in western fans...They tried so hard to put lgbtq/black/austic essence to anything they Can it just so much, Although i anti of..sorry lgbtq,i wanted to treated them equal as human beings,they just became extremely out of Hand,ngl i agreed with your opinion, Am from Indonesia,And Everytime i tried to join western cartoon fandoms it just filled (Mainly) by Lgbtq or Trans fanart and topic,i so...out of place,they focus on that so bad,that the original cartoon almost never brought into discussion
Nope, I think you're about the fifth or sixth now. I'm surprised because the comment I left back then was pretty uninteresting. What draws people to click on me?
I agree, representation matters more than we think, we have all those patterns ingrained in our minds and when we don't the standards we have been seeing in media, we feel just bad about ourselved. And we seek to alter ourselves
DISCO ELYSIUM MENTION!! (I also don’t like the disco elysium fandom, but with that being said I really wanna do a Chester and Ruby cosplay since I look like a mix of them) And great video!!
This is a massive social phenomena we need more people speaking critically about it. So thank you for doing this. I wanted to comment on something you said though about the 3 motives for transitioning and how you're the entire "Venn diagram"- I think most people are all three as well. I suspect it's the autism/aspergers that creates the autoheterosexuality, that AH then manifests in gender dysphoria and homosexual behavior/attractions.
Also, on the three reasons for transitioning comment. I wanted to ask with your mindset at this time, as well as your knowledge and history. Could you fully say that transitioning will help anyone or anything with these problems? Or do you think ultimately that there’s no such thing as transitioning “helping?” Also! If you ever make a video on autism and it’s impacts in the transgender community, more specifically causing people to transition! I will gladly watch it! For that’s a topic I’ve seen in this world as well, and people around me.
I don't think transitioning helps at all, first of all the hormones and surgery are harmful, but they don't truly make you into the opposite sex. It only serves to make the patient feel more inadequate, chasing the body they can't ever really attain. I really do need to make another video on autism.
Hope you also went and asked the same question on non-detrans channels. Because yoh would see a really different answer :) I can definitely say transition isn't the right choise for everyone, and I find it pretty weird she can't see/admit it's definitely good for some other people, even if she didn't find it helpful to herself.
@@valkeakirahvi it's definitely not good for anyone. Wrong sex hormones are incredibly dangerous and should never be administered to patients under any circumstances. It defies the Hippocratic Oath.
@@CourtneyCoulson Thosands of trans people and medican experts disagree with you 🤷 No such thing as wrong sex hormones btw, we all have all hormones, just in different quantities, which determines which way our bodies develop.
There was the biker jacket for non milspec clothing, and even then it fits the general ‘rugged and functional’ style he has. And the costumes in peacewalker, but that was in the date missions.
I'm sensing this is the next frontier of censorship. Save the good stuff while you can, guys, before we're all forced to read radfem Christian scripture and marry a nice husband.
I appreciate the cosplay and concur with your Gale opinion 😂 Been thinking I should do an analysis of the Astarion story on my channel because of the sexual exploitation themes (sadly agree a lot of fans mentally skipped over how serious that was) - though contrasted with the world building mess thats Sharess' Caress... 100% agree with your final conclusion!!
I just gotta find the time. Haven't made a video in 5 months because responsibilities 🙈 Just finished watching this video and completely agree with your final conclusion. Also saddened that despite the abundance of interesting female characters in BG3, the response from female fans to them is lukewarm. Now wondering if there's any female written Dame Aelyin and Isobel fanfiction? @@CourtneyCoulson
Cheers! And a recent study showed that vegans fart seven times more than omnivores. Their diet consists almost entirely of fibre and FODMAPs, so it's no surprise.
One last thing, yuri is surprising since it is mostly written by women. While of course there are sexual lesbian stories. Yuri is surprisingly a good niche at the moment. Their Story by Tan Jiu, Soulmate, blooming sequence, etc. Its just surprising to see this getting more popularity and being mostly women writing it.
Yuri is disappointing to me, is it written by straight women? Sure, it's not lesbians as viewed through the male gaze, but it's not appealing to me as an actual lesbian. It's all skinny little teenage girls. Where's the butch adult women in yuri?
@@CourtneyCoulson just chiming in to mention "She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat" it's slow paced but very sweet and it's actually about adults, woo! lol
I remember about 15 years ago fans were doing the same but with autism. They would give characters autistic traits absolutely for no reason. It was trendy to be autistic
One of the most interesting things that I believe that has affected my view on this was the lego study on why boys played with legos more. Despite legos being fairly gender neutral and the marketing encompassing both boys and girls. They studied how girls and boys built and played with castle Legos, and they found that boys built the castle and then enacted battles in front of it - the castle was just the backdrop. The girls built the castle and then were disappointed that there wasn’t anything going on inside of it where they wanted to enact their stories. They also learned that the girls were more interested in smaller projects, and that they were more likely to want to see themselves in the minifigs. And thus “Friends” was born, with hearts and butterflies and pink and purple colors and listed on the Lego website under the category of “girls.” Boys will enact the role of the character they are playing as. This is even seen in virtual reality when a man plays as a woman. They take on that role. Same when they played spiderman or grand theft auto or etc. Women on the otherhand want to see themselves in their media. They want to be that person. Twilight, yaoi and relating to the submissive guy, baldurs gate, etc. This sadly has led to really bad female characters like Rey from star wars. She is such a badly written character and yet women will defend her like one of their gods. Its because they see themselves in that character and they view it as a personal attack if you dont like said character. Think about how if you criticize any of this how immediately and innately offended this specific group is. Because to them, they are the person, and sadly i believe that leads to shitty storytelling. Its why female characters have slowly been made uglier which is kinda hilarious. Yet, the male characters are still mostly on steroids or more feminine and attractive regardless. Badlrus gate having sex with a bear is perfectly fine. Stellars blade is literally the holocaust because hiw dare you make an attractive female character. You literally committed a war crime. The difference? Young women specifically view themselves and feel you are personally attacking them. While guys generally dont give a shit. Because they don't view themselves as these character. They may get mad because theylike the character and they like the specific way that character is portrayed but they often defend that depiction rather than trying to force any change. Change can be good or can be bad depending on a variety of things. I personally am not against it but soulless companies don't often portray human experiences that particularly well. I believe the exceptions are things like lord of the rings movies who had a passionate person behind the project. I think its kinda sad but i believe that is why barbie is criticized and heman was not. I think its something that really needs to change. As for venom snake, he is clearly on steroids. There is an awesome video i will link that talks about this. But his physique is not possible in his state without juice. Yet, again, this is fine. Because boys and young men, view these men as something to inspire to be. It can lead to negative emotions but i think most guys view these men as the hercules or alexander the great of old.
I'd like to see that video about Venom Snake. He gains all that muscle in a matter of weeks, it's insane, even if it's regaining, rather than gaining for the first time. I was bodybuilding on testosterone, I grew fast, but not that fast. And you're right about the inherent differences in the way men and women each respond to the world. We are not the same.
@CourtneyCoulson th-cam.com/video/ZfT8cx7xDcw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rWvYZZRvWg5j2Orp This video does a good job describing how male expectations are also just as absurd as women. It isn't just one side of the coin doing it. Both men and women do so. While I believe there are differences between women and men, I honestly think these differences aren't bad or negative. I believe we should enjoy these differences andnunderstand them. As well as understand the massive range both men and women can experience these things. I've seen masculine men and incredibly feminine men as well as masculine women and incredibly feminine women. Both are awesome. Be you. Don't give a damn that's much more fun to be who you want to be then to strap labels onto it. I love metal gear solid, Naked Snake is a badass, sexy as hell and an interesting character and certainly a masculine figure. No one denies that and that intense training regime is certainly wild. But he's something to aspire to be. I don't want to be Naked Snake, I want to be like him though. Same with Ripley from Alien. I want to be like her too.
7:25 On that note, it seems like a lot of fan art has gotten intentionally uglier, especially if you look at tumblr tags-- ten years ago, it was just because of amateur skill that proportions would be off or other mistakes along those lines, but these days there seems to be a deliberate stylistic trend of making characters "realistic" by adding jarring characteristics like extra fatness, stretch marks, body hair, etc. that never existed in the original character design. You can see this most clearly with reimagined anime characters. Anime as a medium is very minimalistic in how bodies are drawn, plus it's stylized heavily in favor of Asian beauty standards, so tumblresque western fan art can look pretty grotesque as a result since it's so far removed from the original design.
It's almost as if they think prefering to look at attractive people is somehow bigotry. So they're conditioning themselves to idolise ugliness for woke points.
I remember reading a fic where one of the male characters was written as a trans guy and it completely messed with my head like, I'm reading it as an escape it doesn't make me feel better that this character is now as messed up as I am wanting to be a guy. I'd rather him just be a guy
Your cosplays are incredible and love how you incorporate it while discussing the topic.
I remember you, you commented in a ray william jonhson 14 years ago keep up good work
for the first few minutes I thought you were wearing colored contacts, but it’s actually your natural color! what a cool shade of green… love the cosplay and your perspective on things. your insight is super interesting
Only 30 minutes in, your perspective on things is always so unique and engaging. Fandom isn't my thing but I like to hear you talk about it. You really have been around mentally so to speak. Seems like the hard travelling has levelled out for a bit.anyways Court I think when you find someone who gets you- it's gonna be the jackpot
@@FrankQpublic-tn5yg What a serendipitous comment. I'm currently facing another relationship ending with yet another person who doesn't understand me. I doubt there is anyone out there for me. I just have to learn to like being alone. I used to be like that as a kid.
god give his best passing potential jawlines to terf reppers smh
Thank you, I've been mewing.
Courtney's jawline isn't even all that defined. I think she has a female typical jawline even after taking T.
"Rock music and comic books are turning Our Youth into deliquents" said every parent in the 1950s. Also "Ballet Lessons turned my Son Gay"
this. the "x will turn your kid y" fear mongering has been going on for ages, targeting all kinds of things, and people still fall for it. humanity never changes🤷🏻
Just watch Ten minute of your video,i already agreed with your Opinion..alot of people to be honest especially in western fans...They tried so hard to put lgbtq/black/austic essence to anything they Can it just so much, Although i anti of..sorry lgbtq,i wanted to treated them equal as human beings,they just became extremely out of Hand,ngl i agreed with your opinion,
Am from Indonesia,And Everytime i tried to join western cartoon fandoms it just filled (Mainly) by Lgbtq or Trans fanart and topic,i so...out of place,they focus on that so bad,that the original cartoon almost never brought into discussion
Yes please shake the table 😂 you’re not wrong
am I the only one who came from that Ray William Johnson he made 14 years ago?
Nope, I think you're about the fifth or sixth now. I'm surprised because the comment I left back then was pretty uninteresting. What draws people to click on me?
Oh hey, the person i like to listen to uploaded. Good.
Thank you for sharing this… hentai is turning the boys trans …lol
I agree, representation matters more than we think, we have all those patterns ingrained in our minds and when we don't the standards we have been seeing in media, we feel just bad about ourselved. And we seek to alter ourselves
28:42 "this narcissistic highly political way of consuming fiction" That sounds like a great title
So I’m not trans if I think I’m trans I’m confused
seeing her and a lot of the other weirdos perceptions in her comments.. i don’t think this is the place you should try to be finding clarity.
DISCO ELYSIUM MENTION!! (I also don’t like the disco elysium fandom, but with that being said I really wanna do a Chester and Ruby cosplay since I look like a mix of them)
And great video!!
This is a massive social phenomena we need more people speaking critically about it. So thank you for doing this.
I wanted to comment on something you said though about the 3 motives for transitioning and how you're the entire "Venn diagram"- I think most people are all three as well. I suspect it's the autism/aspergers that creates the autoheterosexuality, that AH then manifests in gender dysphoria and homosexual behavior/attractions.
Also, on the three reasons for transitioning comment. I wanted to ask with your mindset at this time, as well as your knowledge and history. Could you fully say that transitioning will help anyone or anything with these problems? Or do you think ultimately that there’s no such thing as transitioning “helping?”
Also! If you ever make a video on autism and it’s impacts in the transgender community, more specifically causing people to transition! I will gladly watch it! For that’s a topic I’ve seen in this world as well, and people around me.
I don't think transitioning helps at all, first of all the hormones and surgery are harmful, but they don't truly make you into the opposite sex. It only serves to make the patient feel more inadequate, chasing the body they can't ever really attain.
I really do need to make another video on autism.
Hope you also went and asked the same question on non-detrans channels. Because yoh would see a really different answer :) I can definitely say transition isn't the right choise for everyone, and I find it pretty weird she can't see/admit it's definitely good for some other people, even if she didn't find it helpful to herself.
@@valkeakirahvi it's definitely not good for anyone. Wrong sex hormones are incredibly dangerous and should never be administered to patients under any circumstances. It defies the Hippocratic Oath.
@@CourtneyCoulson Thosands of trans people and medican experts disagree with you 🤷 No such thing as wrong sex hormones btw, we all have all hormones, just in different quantities, which determines which way our bodies develop.
@@valkeakirahvi you're being lied to.
There was the biker jacket for non milspec clothing, and even then it fits the general ‘rugged and functional’ style he has. And the costumes in peacewalker, but that was in the date missions.
Thank you for this correction, lol. And don't forget, a tuxedo is great camouflage. I want that leather jacket, it's so badass.
I'm sensing this is the next frontier of censorship. Save the good stuff while you can, guys, before we're all forced to read radfem Christian scripture and marry a nice husband.
I appreciate the cosplay and concur with your Gale opinion 😂 Been thinking I should do an analysis of the Astarion story on my channel because of the sexual exploitation themes (sadly agree a lot of fans mentally skipped over how serious that was) - though contrasted with the world building mess thats Sharess' Caress...
100% agree with your final conclusion!!
I'd be keen for such a video. Your channel seems like my jam.
I just gotta find the time. Haven't made a video in 5 months because responsibilities 🙈 Just finished watching this video and completely agree with your final conclusion. Also saddened that despite the abundance of interesting female characters in BG3, the response from female fans to them is lukewarm. Now wondering if there's any female written Dame Aelyin and Isobel fanfiction? @@CourtneyCoulson
Great cosplay and great video! I am SO HERE for the fanfic analysis!!! But I wanted to ask...why do you think vegans stink??? XD
Cheers!
And a recent study showed that vegans fart seven times more than omnivores. Their diet consists almost entirely of fibre and FODMAPs, so it's no surprise.
i totally agree -media enjoyer and bg3 fan
One last thing, yuri is surprising since it is mostly written by women. While of course there are sexual lesbian stories. Yuri is surprisingly a good niche at the moment. Their Story by Tan Jiu, Soulmate, blooming sequence, etc. Its just surprising to see this getting more popularity and being mostly women writing it.
Yuri is disappointing to me, is it written by straight women? Sure, it's not lesbians as viewed through the male gaze, but it's not appealing to me as an actual lesbian. It's all skinny little teenage girls. Where's the butch adult women in yuri?
@@CourtneyCoulsonyou should read the manga "Gunjou". It's really good
@@CourtneyCoulson just chiming in to mention "She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat" it's slow paced but very sweet and it's actually about adults, woo! lol
I remember about 15 years ago fans were doing the same but with autism. They would give characters autistic traits absolutely for no reason. It was trendy to be autistic
Nah, not having a grip on reality is
I don't care enough to watch the video is this terf bullshit or not
It is
Yes, I exclude men from feminism.
@@CourtneyCoulson whatever helps you sleep at night
@@CourtneyCoulson The whole point of feminism is to include everyone??
@@capslock5655 yes, feminism benefits men too. But pretending men masquerading as women are really women harms everyone.
One of the most interesting things that I believe that has affected my view on this was the lego study on why boys played with legos more. Despite legos being fairly gender neutral and the marketing encompassing both boys and girls.
They studied how girls and boys built and played with castle Legos, and they found that boys built the castle and then enacted battles in front of it - the castle was just the backdrop. The girls built the castle and then were disappointed that there wasn’t anything going on inside of it where they wanted to enact their stories. They also learned that the girls were more interested in smaller projects, and that they were more likely to want to see themselves in the minifigs. And thus “Friends” was born, with hearts and butterflies and pink and purple colors and listed on the Lego website under the category of “girls.”
Boys will enact the role of the character they are playing as. This is even seen in virtual reality when a man plays as a woman. They take on that role. Same when they played spiderman or grand theft auto or etc. Women on the otherhand want to see themselves in their media. They want to be that person. Twilight, yaoi and relating to the submissive guy, baldurs gate, etc.
This sadly has led to really bad female characters like Rey from star wars. She is such a badly written character and yet women will defend her like one of their gods. Its because they see themselves in that character and they view it as a personal attack if you dont like said character. Think about how if you criticize any of this how immediately and innately offended this specific group is.
Because to them, they are the person, and sadly i believe that leads to shitty storytelling.
Its why female characters have slowly been made uglier which is kinda hilarious. Yet, the male characters are still mostly on steroids or more feminine and attractive regardless.
Badlrus gate having sex with a bear is perfectly fine. Stellars blade is literally the holocaust because hiw dare you make an attractive female character. You literally committed a war crime. The difference? Young women specifically view themselves and feel you are personally attacking them. While guys generally dont give a shit. Because they don't view themselves as these character. They may get mad because theylike the character and they like the specific way that character is portrayed but they often defend that depiction rather than trying to force any change. Change can be good or can be bad depending on a variety of things. I personally am not against it but soulless companies don't often portray human experiences that particularly well. I believe the exceptions are things like lord of the rings movies who had a passionate person behind the project.
I think its kinda sad but i believe that is why barbie is criticized and heman was not. I think its something that really needs to change.
As for venom snake, he is clearly on steroids. There is an awesome video i will link that talks about this. But his physique is not possible in his state without juice. Yet, again, this is fine. Because boys and young men, view these men as something to inspire to be. It can lead to negative emotions but i think most guys view these men as the hercules or alexander the great of old.
I'd like to see that video about Venom Snake. He gains all that muscle in a matter of weeks, it's insane, even if it's regaining, rather than gaining for the first time. I was bodybuilding on testosterone, I grew fast, but not that fast. And you're right about the inherent differences in the way men and women each respond to the world. We are not the same.
This is a great analysis
@CourtneyCoulson th-cam.com/video/ZfT8cx7xDcw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rWvYZZRvWg5j2Orp
This video does a good job describing how male expectations are also just as absurd as women. It isn't just one side of the coin doing it. Both men and women do so. While I believe there are differences between women and men, I honestly think these differences aren't bad or negative. I believe we should enjoy these differences andnunderstand them. As well as understand the massive range both men and women can experience these things. I've seen masculine men and incredibly feminine men as well as masculine women and incredibly feminine women. Both are awesome. Be you. Don't give a damn that's much more fun to be who you want to be then to strap labels onto it.
I love metal gear solid, Naked Snake is a badass, sexy as hell and an interesting character and certainly a masculine figure. No one denies that and that intense training regime is certainly wild. But he's something to aspire to be. I don't want to be Naked Snake, I want to be like him though. Same with Ripley from Alien. I want to be like her too.