I remembered a movie I saw a few months back. In the movie, there was an arc where a dog had a big secret: he only liked cats. (As playmates; this was a family movie) One of the main characters tried to find a cat to play with him, but they all refused on the grounds of him being a dog. So she decided to disguise a dog as a cat by painting some stripes on him and pointed him to play with the first dog. They had lots of fun, until rain dissolved the paint and revealed the cat-dog's identity. The main character pointed out that they had become fast friends regardless of their species. So they kept on playing with each other, happily ever after.
I'm not so sure what the moral here is supposed to be. I see the allegory of homosexuality, but isn't this the equivalent of a woman dressing up and dating a gay man, only to later on reveal she doesn't have a penis?
What? It just sounds like a race allegory. Like if a Klan member discovered their best friend had black ancestry or something. There's a similar moral in the web cartoon series
"There she is" (highly worth checking out). The dynamic there is that Person Type A must not date Person Type B: the dominant culture asserts that A's must date A's, and B's must date B's. This is the logic of racial segregation. It's only applicable to same sex relationships in the idea of a non-sanctioned relationship, not in the actual mechanics of the relationship.
As soon as you say e.g. the dog represents women and the cats represent men, then you have
huge problems making the analogy make any sense at all. that is clear in how you had to say that "cats represent gay men", and the dog represents a "female-to-male transgender" who tricked the gay man into dating her. And the moral is therefore that gay men should try dating women, they might like it xD OMG - not a "PC" sentiment at all. This is sooooo unbelievably convoluted that basically nobody would interpret things like that, meaning that's not the message people are getting from the film.
So, by interpreting it as a race allegory, it's straightforward (race A and race B), and symmetrical, whereas interpreting it as a sexuality allegory leads to bizarre mental contortions, such as the cats represent
only gay males and the dogs represent
all women, or perhaps just lesbian women, because it was taboo that they played with the cats (men) at all. And the specific dog in question was a FtM transman who rejected lesbianism and only wants to date gay men.
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