• kinkles@sh.itjust.works
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        7 months ago

        They have neither confirmed or denied it being a trans allegory. It depends on how you interpret the response Lilly Wachowski gave in an interview a few years ago:

        Continuing on The Matrix, you confirmed a couple years ago that it was a trans allegory —

        No, I didn’t.

        You didn’t? Tell me more.

        Yeah, so that came from an interview I did for Disclosure. They had a bunch of Matrix questions. And the question they asked me was about Switch, who was originally written as a trans character who was male in the real world and female in the matrix. And they took that response and attached the question that everyone now references that it’s a trans allegory. And so it was slightly out of context, but I don’t sit here and put a stink up about it, because it is a trans allegory in that it was written by two closeted trans women. And so all of the things that are in it are super-duper trans. The idea of transformation, even the whole “My name is Neo, Mr. Anderson —” that idea of claiming identity, it’s undeniable.

        https://www.them.us/story/lilly-wachowski-mentoring-the-matrix-interview

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            7 months ago

            very similar to the game Celeste which was made by a questioning/closeted trans person, so the whole game pretty much follows the trans experience. The creator actually confirmed canonically that the character (Madeline) is trans too.

            “During Celeste’s development, I did not know that Madeline or myself were trans. During the Farewell DLC’s development, I began to form a hunch. Post-development, I now know that we both are.”

            AAGH MY HEART 😭😭

            edit: bonus round! the music composer is also trans, she also makes some of the music for Minecraft, including pigstep.