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Works of fantasy (and sci-fi too) are some of the biggest when it comes to social/cultural/political allegory. The Dark Knight graphic novel is full of allegories (some far from subtle), same with Star Wars, The Expanse, Lord of the Rings and etcetera.I'm tired of people desperately attempting to associate real world groups with fantasy creatures that have no real-world counterpart. It's fine for fantasy to be fantasy, to not contain things that do exist in our world. The Dark Knight doesn't need to support Joe Biden, The town doesn't need a Planned Parenthood clinic, the innkeeper doesn't need to be selling his get-rich-quick scheme on Tiktok, and social theories like gender or transgenderism don't even need to exist (they'd be unrecognizable even if they did, if conceived in a world with healthy and common hermaphrodites and various sentient species). It can just be a fantasy world where fantasy perfect hermaphrodites exist and fuck you in the ass, and that's plenty.
It is just most of them are either too subtle for people to directly recognize and/or they already agree with the views exposed to them on that piece of art (it is easy to realize when it is something alien to the person).
And to the case in point: do you really believe ToA would exist if the Majalis were a duo of bigots?
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