Hey at least you’re not a yucky lesbian, Joan – you’re a man, somehow. Binders, for the uninitiated, are tight cloth wrappers used by young women, often young lesbians, to compress their breast tissue – to ‘help affirm their gender identity’ as either male or nonbinary. jeannedarc fate fatestaynight fategrandorder fgo fatezero saber lancer jalter mordred jeanne joanofarc artoriapendragon fateapocrypha harem ruler cuchulainn malereader apocrypha artoria. Jeanne (center) on the second key visual for Fate. Jeanne on the first key visual for Fate/Apocrypha. A-1 Pictures anime wallpaper depicting Jeanne. Character concept sheet of Jeanne for the anime adaption of Fate/Apocrypha. Jeanne on the cover of the first light novel volume for Fate/Apocrypha. Worse still, displaying breast-binders in a fetishised way, as in the publicity image for I, Joan, adds homophobia into the mix. Jeanne d'Arc's character design by Ototsugu Konoe.
To ascribe the nonsense of ‘nonbinary’ to the reality of historical women adopting male disguise to gain unusual positions of power is insulting, sexist nonsense. hands of the King of France would be made to pay for the fate of the Maid. This still has resonance, because it reflects well-documented historical truth. Charles, hearing that the English were about to gain possession of Jeanne. So Portia, in the The Merchant of Venice, turns out to be a great lawyer, but she can only do the job by pretending to be a bloke. Unlike the attempts to project trans and nonbinary identities back into the past, feminist interpretations of Shakespeare can actually be enlightening, because they are at least dealing with the reality of women’s lives. To pretend that this skylarking somehow represents the ‘historical existence of trans experience’ is ludicrous. It’s a humorous conceit that works in Shakespeare because it is based on the strict demarcation of sexed roles in Elizabethan society. Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery, Precognition, Minor Mind Manipulation and Social Influencing with. Classification: Heroic Spirit, Ruler-class Servant. Age: 19 years old at the time of her death.
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I see this as being like the 1960s Batman TV series – how funny it is that Commissioner Gordon and Chief O’Hara spend so much time with both Batman and Robin and with Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, but they never once twig they are the same people, even though it is screamingly obvious. Name: Ruler, Jeanne dArc/Joan of Arc, the Saint of Orléans.
You will notice it is only in the comedies that the girl characters disguise themselves as boys (the only male who ever crossdresses is Falstaff, who becomes ‘the fat woman of Brentford’ in The Merry Wives of Windsor, which is played for even broader laughs, rather like Jack Duckworth’s 2004 turn as ‘Ida Fagg’ in Coronation Street). But this has nothing to do with modern ideas about trans or nonbinary identities. It is an astonishing leap.ĭefenders of I, Joan will point to the many Shakespeare plays that play around with gender. The play’s premise equates a woman, in a very specific Medieval Christian culture, being called by a religious vision to fight ‘like a man’, with the self-harm of breast-binding, experimental drugs and elective mutilation that comes with the ‘trans experience’. What makes I, Joan different is that the grim, rictus-grinning cult aesthetic of 21st-century Western genderism it is trying to promote is just something that is obviously stupid and destructive and bad.
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