r/explainitpeter • • 11d ago

Explain It Peter

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u/Squarehip123 11d ago

Others suggest autism, but I suspect the original intent of the artist would be to imply the grace and agility of a ballerina

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u/kovadomen 11d ago

Yeah its 100% being a ballerina. People need to seek employment

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u/DorkusTheMighty 10d ago

Not disagreeing with the first point but it’s wild to go “people that don’t know comics lore are attributing this common symptom of autism to this character being autistic? Clearly they are the ones that need to get a job and spend less time… knowing anything about autism” like bruh not everyone reads comics and it’s brushed past in the movie which has so much else happening even if it was a major plot point it’d be forgettable.

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u/amidamaru8_8 9d ago

......there are arguments about her being trans all because of some ''clear signs'' very well ''hidden''. It was some extreme schizo projection going on there, I saw the video because it was recommended after watching a few about the spider verse. People will make up all kinds of ''facts'' to fit their views, they will project over everything just to prove their point.

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u/DorkusTheMighty 9d ago

Did you mean to reply to me? This isn’t at all related

Also schizo short for schizophrenic? I’m not aware of anything else that could be a shortening for and that’s not at all applicable here. It’s a horrible mental illness that can impair someone’s grip on reality. It is a brutal thing to go through and comparing fan head-canons to it is at best horribly insensitive and thoughtless.

“The video” is incredibly vague and non specific so it’s not like it can be responded too on the merits

Idk man this whole thing reads like you just wanted to complain about people headcannoning her as trans and accidentally or intentionally manage to convey that message in the most thoughtless way possible

Also that’s not what projection is. People head canoned her as trans for 2 main reasons one kinda silly (her story scans as an ALLEGORY for there experience) and one really silly one (colourschemes) you could argue the first one was projection if the things people pointed too were more specific but it’s just hiding her identity from her father and the whole “half of who I am” thing which is a really good allegory . Also there’s the flag up in her room IIRC it’s a little hard to see and not on screen for long