That doesn’t help very much unfortunately. I probably don’t understand transgender either. In this special case I don’t know who is (or was) who and why and what it means. There’s this band leader person saying some words mostly about physical appearance as I understand it and then this other person talking about school or career and then calls it’s mom and talks about pronouns. Just confuses the hell out of me. Is there a message about something happening in the world or social something or is there a joke?
This is part of an ongoing fan comic, so you might be missing a bit of context. See this archive for a link to the post that inspired it and all 13 comic strips so far.
The characters are Calvin and Susie from the Calvin and Hobbes cartoons, imagined as adults. Notice Hobbes in stuffed animal form in some of the panels. Calvin now uses the name Panthera and identifies as neither male nor female, using fae/faer pronouns, which are rather unusual, even for non-binary people. It started as a joke that Calvin hates being normal so much that if he ever transitioned, he wouldn’t just be a girl (whom he has always found gross) but something as far outside the norm as possible.
I don’t understand it.
This tumblr thread explains it
That doesn’t help very much unfortunately. I probably don’t understand transgender either. In this special case I don’t know who is (or was) who and why and what it means. There’s this band leader person saying some words mostly about physical appearance as I understand it and then this other person talking about school or career and then calls it’s mom and talks about pronouns. Just confuses the hell out of me. Is there a message about something happening in the world or social something or is there a joke?
This is part of an ongoing fan comic, so you might be missing a bit of context. See this archive for a link to the post that inspired it and all 13 comic strips so far.
The characters are Calvin and Susie from the Calvin and Hobbes cartoons, imagined as adults. Notice Hobbes in stuffed animal form in some of the panels. Calvin now uses the name Panthera and identifies as neither male nor female, using fae/faer pronouns, which are rather unusual, even for non-binary people. It started as a joke that Calvin hates being normal so much that if he ever transitioned, he wouldn’t just be a girl (whom he has always found gross) but something as far outside the norm as possible.
Thank you, that helped!