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Arnold is emblematic of the underlying transmisogyny in the household…
Arnold is emblematic of the underlying transmisogyny in the household
Paige is sexist/homophobic/tranphobic, she is the most transphobic character in the thing
Arnold is emblematic of transmisogyny
Arnold is dressed up as a woman
Paige is trying to make arnold trans as a way of degrading him
Though paige seems to like to portray this as her toying around with gender, Paige does this purposefully to DEGRADE him, not to have fun
"We will not rewrite Arnold's history with pity" (page 67)
Paige says she thought seeing Arnold would make Isaac laugh and that's the reason she put the makeup on him (page 66)
Arnold had his stroke from his waning privilege (page 67) this is part of how Paige is trying to kill him
It is a retaliation
Page 72 Max says "she wants him to be humiliated"
This is part of a larger fight against arnold with medicating him
Paige is giving Arnold estrogen
This turns it into something more, turning him into a woman
Both Arnold and Max are undergoing hormone therapy
pg 68 "ze does not want to be treated as a side show oddity"
Degradation of men dressed like women is very linked to transmisogyny
Drag s different from transness but if you think the feminization of men is funny, you probably are transphobic
There is in fact a problem with transness being equated with drag
There's a history of blurred lines
In a world that sees trans women as men dressed as women
We have to understand where the prejudice is coming from
It comes from transphobia (fear of other gender) sissy stuff, homophoiba, misogyny, degradation of men
This is linked to how transphobia is different against trans men and women, on a certain level trans men are easier to accept
This is also linked to homophobia
This is also linked to misogyny
There is a REASON that seeing men dressed like women is a comedy trope, but it isn't the other way around
Isaac has this very strong aversion to cross dressing
However, he is not the only one
Arnie has a strange simultaneous presence and absence
Arnold is one of the first things that is described in the play "he wears a frilly woman's nightgown. He has extreme makeup on and a clown wig, making him look like an effeminate crossdressing clown
They heavily medicate Arnold
Paige sees max's transition as a rebellion against Arnold
Paige wanting Max to express hir gender in a certain way (she also polices others' gender)
Paige wants to follow max into the future
Paige is obsessed with max's gender
She focusses on the sensational parts
Gender is a central topic
Paige claims to have a had a revelation about gender
Page tells Isaac not to say the t-slur
Paige inadvertently includes herself in the community with LGBTQQIAA on page 68
Paige is grossly uneducated on trans issues and history (cheetos comment on page 67)
Why does she do this, there may be many reasons that she does this
Is the way she acts towards Arnold a retaliation for how he enforced the patriarchy on her
The idea (page 66) that paige has that if he grows breasts he can fondle himself (as opposed to her)
Putting him in her position
Paige tries to get arnold to do household things
Paige hates Arnold
Paige purposefully keeps it freezing for Arnold, it's not a difference in taste (page 65)
The clothes are part of Page's control of arnold "when it's cold you put on sparkle kitty" (pg 65)
Page 73 quote, Arnold was a very masculine, tough man
These things are part of her system of hurting arnold
They live on top of a landfill
Symbolic of nasty stuff lying underneath
Forcing someone into a gendered experience that is not their own is always inherintly harmfull
and Paige implies that its okay BECAUSE arnold doesn't know what's going on (pg 66)
But the transphobia is there, lurking, and paige like the landfill...
As we deal with the trans community is important to be aware of these tendencies that we have as a community