Cultural Warring Brad isn't Cool With Gender Bending Anime References
A Series on Misinformation, Disinformation and Subterfuge
Brad, the Lawyer that spends his time dishing out harassment instead of legal advice, is confused on a cultural relevant term, gender-bending.
The term gender-bending is ubiquitous in Anime as well as Cosplay, stuff too cool from a stick-in-the-mud GOP types like Brad.
My all time favorite gender-bending scene was that of Edwin, the Red Wizard in Baulder’s Gate II whose quest is to become the most powerful, only to find that results in his turning into a woman.
If you take Edwin, while female, to the tavern and have him speak to the NPC equivalent of Rocco Castoro, things are even better save pretty much all the recruitable characters wind up being killed in the resulting melee. Edwin in glorious uncontrolled hellfire casting stands up brilliantly to misogyny. Save the game first.
Then one has Cosplay.
People that enjoy this stuff aren’t going to go away just because the Brad feels uncomfortable. Susan Portnoy’s past client, Ron DeSantis has made that his schtick, taking the culture wars on hip forward thinking, calling Disney groomers, banning books, and trying to wash away pop culture and fun. That’s in Brad’s wheelhouse as well.
Gender-bending is cool stuff, just not for Brad.