Outdated by today’s understanding of identity but this '90s show banged out many subversive pro-trans messages.

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    2 months ago

    Is it outdated, or just substantially different?
    Human ideas of identity don’t incorporate a person literally moving from one aged body to another youthful one, several times over hundreds of years.

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      2 months ago

      The outdated part is the notion of needing to see under the covers to figure out gender. We know now that gender expression is not constrained by physical body features.

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        2 months ago

        In humans that’s true.
        But what of alien body hopping slugs, who are half themselves and half their host? It doesn’t seem right to assume the blending of consciousness and frequent body swapping wouldn’t change that notion.

        As I said, it’s substantially different.

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            2 months ago

            Of course not. But this is about opening up people to more broad ways of thinking. You seem to be ignoring anything broader than humans. Not all people are humans.

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                2 months ago

                That’s an assumption.
                But even if true, it’s immaterial to my point.

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                    2 months ago

                    Assumption: There are zero non human sentients observing the broadcast.

                    It’s not an unreasonable assumption… But it is an assumption.

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                    2 months ago

                    It is
                    One you’re using to avoid the point