Dark Souls Lore

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>The treatment of Gwyndolin shows three things: sexism, transmisogyny, and homophobia. They reveal this idea that women exist to be attractive for and to men, exist basically for the benefit of men looking at them (sexism). The moment a woman is revealed not to be a ‘real’ woman (whatever ‘real’ women may be), and is instead interpreted as a man dressed up as a woman, she is understood as a ‘trap’ because she used the image of a woman to get a man interested, only to be revealed to supposedly not be a woman (transmisogyny). Heterosexual men perceive this as a threat to their sexuality, because so long as they interpret this woman as a man, it means that their attraction to her makes them homosexual, which they must insist they are not because it’s bad (homophobia). And thus, because they discredit a trans woman’s femininity, they must call her a trap, as it lays the blame of their attraction on her, and as such safeguards their heterosexuality and by extension their masculinity. In this sense, (heterosexual) masculinity itself is performative.

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