The ugly thing about the world right now is that the same people who are actively working towards trans people’s destruction are the people that idolize V in V for Vendetta.
You’re missing the entire point of the comic series and the movie. V actively fought for gay rights. In fact, he started on his entire path of revolution because of a lesbian woman that was executed because she was thinking differently.
The Norsefire Party’s entire deal was complete control, striking songs and literature and ways of life simply because it existed opposite the party’s beliefs. It even got worse because people were killed simply for the possession of those materials. Even the Qu’ran and other religious materials that weren’t the Bible were treated as dangerous.
Sound familiar? Like maybe taking certain books out of a school library? Or the demonization of a way of life that you don’t understand? How about kicking a trans woman out of her assigned seat in State Congress to censor the truths that she speaks?
What’s worse is that the Pope, McCreedy, Adam Sutler, even the Press were all VILE AND DESPICABLE PEOPLE. The Pope was a true pedophile, McCreedy abused his power and executed the will of the vicious dictator, Adam Sutler, and the Press spewed the Norsefire Party’s homophobic, transphobic, hatred saturated nonsense to continue to hold people in perpetual fear about things THEY deemed were evil.
We are heading that direction remarkably quickly. TERFs and homophobes, especially those in our own community, be aware of the side that you are aligning yourself with because they do not offer mercy. When they come for us, they will come for you, too. Censorship and Political Authoritarianism sit in the exact same boat and siding with the Republicans will doom you to the same fate they are attempting to consign us all to. Be on the correct side of history.
“People should not be afraid of their government. The government should be afraid of its people.”
thinking about v for vendetta and how deeply trans coded it was. how the driving force behind the plot hinged on the justice for a murdered lesbian and the destruction of fascism. the outright condemnation of a corrupt police state and child predators. how the film was released just a few years post-9/11 and in the midst of DADT. how the graphic novel was published in the 80s during the AIDS crisis and the reagan administration and the UK’s thatcherism. the last lines from valerie’s letter: “I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the world turns and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.”
i don’t know where i was going with this but I was just thinking about how our survival hinges on our ability to love and fight for each other
