i’m sick rewatching movies put my queen michelle hendley in more movies

i’m sick rewatching movies put my queen michelle hendley in more movies

was rooting for ricky and francesca but robby is cool too i guess… looking at the poster now i guess i should’ve realized that would be the ending😭😭

was rooting for ricky and francesca but robby is cool too i guess… looking at the poster now i guess i should’ve realized that would be the ending😭😭

everything's wrong but just
this is awesome, my heart pounds.

everything's wrong but just
this is awesome, my heart pounds.

Pretty bad and riddled with problems but so amazing to see an actual trans woman play a trans character!!

Pretty bad and riddled with problems but so amazing to see an actual trans woman play a trans character!!

The first half of the movie can be a little tone deaf with Francesca, the cis girl love interest. It’s nice to see a trans girl have a romance with a woman (albeit one who is engaged to a man), but the way her love interest traverses the topic of her gender isn’t great. “You’re so soft like a girl, but between your legs, you’re hard like a boy 🤭” yes, that exchange happens in this.

For 2014 I don’t expect much, so I can live with some of those faults. However, the second half of the movie focuses mostly on the fallout of the romance between the two women in a very upsetting way. There are death threats towards our protagonist, gay and trans slurs used, and the assumption that their romance would be doomed, so it might as well end before so much as a first date.

Then she ends up with her guy friend who says she’s not a real girl and she doesn’t count as a boy or a girl. He belittles her experience as if he, someone who fits into every privileged group, suffers equally to a transgender woman in the South. He’s forgiven for this, and they get together the same night he says those things. Everyone says she has great chemistry with this asshole over the course of the movie, but like… do they? I don’t see it. 

I don’t know. It’s kind of what you’d expect given the topic and time period. Wish it was better!

The first half of the movie can be a little tone deaf with Francesca, the cis girl love interest. It’s nice to see a trans girl have a romance with a woman (albeit one who is engaged to a man), but the way her love interest traverses the topic of her gender isn’t great. “You’re so soft like a girl, but between your legs, you’re hard like a boy 🤭” yes, that exchange happens in this.

For 2014 I don’t expect much, so I can live with some of those faults. However, the second half of the movie focuses mostly on the fallout of the romance between the two women in a very upsetting way. There are death threats towards our protagonist, gay and trans slurs used, and the assumption that their romance would be doomed, so it might as well end before so much as a first date.

Then she ends up with her guy friend who says she’s not a real girl and she doesn’t count as a boy or a girl. He belittles her experience as if he, someone who fits into every privileged group, suffers equally to a transgender woman in the South. He’s forgiven for this, and they get together the same night he says those things. Everyone says she has great chemistry with this asshole over the course of the movie, but like… do they? I don’t see it. 

I don’t know. It’s kind of what you’d expect given the topic and time period. Wish it was better!