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There goes my seemingly fragile heterosexuality.
it's ok, you didn't need it anyways
I mean, not if she's a girl XP (assuming you're a dude.)
To slightly sanitize the famous quote: I am straight, so whatever gets me hard is a woman.
I'm on estrogen so I don't really get hard for anybody anymore but like do straight guys seriously not?!
Huh? What do you mean?
Based
Infertile and post-menopausal women in shambles /s.
If your point is that most people's attraction isn't just based on, say, what pronouns someone uses, then yeah that makes sense. Like, being attracted to a feminine body, genitals, whatever. I don't think it's a clear cis vs trans line though.
You are very wrong in your assumption. Most people don't ask someone if they're fertile before being attracted to them. That'd be fucking weird. I'm confident in saying that's not a thought in most men's minds when, for example, they watch porn.
There's a difference between being attracted to someone and wanting to be in a relationship with someone though. There's a hell of a lot more people I'm attracted to than I'd want to be married to.
oh yeah i totally messed up in thinking attracted meant wanting a relationship. and i don't mean they'd ask, that would be weird. i meant that if they discovered somehow that someone is infertile (like if they said it), they'd be less attracted to them.
Aaaactshually... I think that most hetero men are attracted to women that look like they are likely to be fertile. Argument: most mainstream, male-targeting hetero porn features women between 18 and, say, 40 or so. I do not believe that the average hetero man consciously thinks, hey, she looks like she could have my kids when it comes to raw attraction, it is more likely that things that are correlated with fertility (health, age, secondary sexual characteristics) are commonly seen as attractive.
I feel like out of the two of these options, there's one most straight men would go for, and its not buck angel..
Also side not: Bucks been a fuck about enbies IIRC, but I didn't know any other jacked trans dudes off of the top of my head. If someone wants to fix that please do.
My point was that straight is a lot more fluid than that, and there are lots of straight dudes who REALLY REALLY don't want kids.
Also even if they do want kids eventually, the vast, VAST majority of sexual encounters for most people today, will be WITHOUT the intent of having kids.
sure i never said straight could only mean that. and where we live, it's possible that most men don't want kids (or at least not yet). but i'm talking about the entire world, and in a lot of countries it is expected for everyone to build families and have kids.
now it might not be most men that think like that, even if i think it is.
Tintin is around 15 so GO TURN YOURSELF IN. Not sure how complicit Hergé is for drawing him this way.
I see this as a trans solidarity post, not porn.
Gender swapping an underage character isn't hentai. If you find such a thing sexually uncomfortable you need to re-examine your biases and maybe confront your own inner demons.
In fact the sexualization of trans people is half the problem. Someone switching genders is not an opportunity to get a boner and it certainly is not an opportunity to clutch pearls and scream about indecency.
I know but @passepartout@feddit.org brought up sexual attraction.
TL:DR; below.
Hergé actually never mentions his age explicitly, he said he'd guess him as being 14/15, but he later said he thought of him as about 17.
Halfway through the movie "The Secret of the Unicorn" from 1991, Tintin's passport is shown, saying he's born in 1929.
Let's assume the passport is right. Tintin's adventures starts with a visit to the USSR. Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky are mentioned in unison, as well the Red Army (founded in 1918). He wears a knickerboxer in there. Plus fours were commonly worn after 17 years of age, when they then replaced the knickerboxer; Tintin wears the latter during most albums after the Soviet adventure. So, Tintin might be 14 in the start of his adventures, which would place it as starting in 1943 at its earliest.
The second adventure, i.e. the one in Africa, precedes Congolese independence (1960). When, is not mentioned; but Tintin wears a pith helmet, which became uncommon in Francophone African colonies by 1955, so I would estimate that adventure to take place between 1943-1955. Tintin drives a T-ford in there, which stopped selling in 1927; but those could have been maintained for a few decades.
One issue is that Al Capone occurs in there (named at page 52); he was released from prison in 1939, and got early treatment for syphilic paresis, yet did gradually deteriorate; by 1946, he had the mind of a 12-year-old kid, and he died in 1947.
Assuming the second adventure took place after the Soviet one, that places it around 1944-1945. I will assume 1944, since after the war, worldwide people were much more inclined to liberation from colonialism, which we don't see yet in that cartoon. That makes Tintin 15 in there.
However, a problem rises. In the third album, Tintin in America, 1932 is specifically mentioned, the Depression as well, and Al Capone still reigns supreme. The mafia still occurred in the 1950s, so that part isn't a problem; but him reigning is. Thus, the movie (made 9 years after Hergé's death) and the cartoons directly conflate each other. It could be that it was a flashback, and the rest of the cartoon is about him trying to gain back power, and the Depression didn't end fully until after the war. It is much easier to assume the movie's passport date is simply wrong.
In "Destination: Moon", album 16, the costumes resemble the first Soviet suit from 1961-63, albeit inflated; and the rocket is V2-like.
In the last fully finished story with the Picaros, Tintin no longer wears a plus four, which fell out of fashion (outside of golfing and niche stuff) in the 1970s; and they drive in a Jonckheere DAF Coach SB 1602, from 1974.
So in a nutshell. Assuming the passport is right, Tintin's fully written adventures would've occured between 1943 and 1974, and he'd have been 45 when those adventures ended (and looks wise, if Hirohiko Araki can barely wrinkle until 60, so could Tintin), and currently be 96 years old.
If we don't take the passport in the movie as canon, but take Hergé's word only, then an indicator is Tintin encountering starvation in the first adventure; that may point to the famine of 1921-22, which affected a large part of the western USSR.
If Tintin is indeed 17, this would place him as being born in about 1906, maybe 1907 - Hergé's birth year. That would make Tintin currently 118 years old, meaning he most likely died in the 1980s or 1990s; and his adventures would've taken place between 1922-1974, starting when he was 14, and ending when he was 67.
In a nutshell: Tintin would be fine after the fourth album.
Wdym 15 doesnt he live in his own appartement and has a Job as a reporter? Also he travels the world like he is loaded.
I will note that I knew several people who lived by themselves when they were younger teens in the 50s and 40s. So if you could find work it wasn't impossible back then, hell my 2x great grandfather employed some random kid who ran from home via train jumping back the the 1910s.
I didn't expect that since he/she is literally depicted with a gun in their hands lol. I also think the piece of art in question here is not Hergé OC but an adaption by an artist called lianmilanesa.