Euphoria Special Part 2: Fuck Anyone Who's Not a Sea Blob (Full Reaction)
Added 2021-02-05 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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I know this is like a year later but I was rewatching these and just wanted to give you a little bit of an explanation to what you were saying in the end. It wasn't that Jules felt like she needed to be a girl because she liked boys. It was that she wanted to be a girl and in her head she was centering what it means to be a girl around what men liked about women. She felt like if straight men were attracted to her then that meant she 'passed' as a "real" girl. (she obviously is a real girl but I'm just usually simple terms to describe her feelings). The actress who plays her, Hunter Schafer, has mentioned that when she was in middle school she just thought she was gay because of gay stereotypes and because that's what her parents thought, rather than she being transgender. Hunter Schafer actually helped write this episode, so I'm guessing it's a lot of things she has experienced and thought about as a trans woman. At the beginning she says that she doesn't want to de-transition, she still wants to be a girl, but she's not terrified of looking less feminine. One of the reasons why she 'passes' so well is because she technically hasn't gone through puberty (same with the actress herself who started hormones around 14ish). Her voice never deepened, her shoulders never got much broader, her muscle mass isn't like that of someone born male. She still has a very 'boy-ish' (rather than "man"-ish) body and face, which passes as feminine as a teenager or adult. If she had gone through puberty then transitioned, she probably would look a little more masculine or have a harder time 'passing'. So it's not that she wants to be a boy again, it's that she wants to stop thinking about men when thinking about what she 'should' look like. She just wants to be herself, not center her transition around what she thinks makes her more attractive to men.
Ophelia
2022-04-18 11:07:31 +0000 UTC
