• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    14 hours ago

    My favorite thing from The Matrix was the concept of “Residual Self Image.” It is the perfect starting point to understanding dysphoria. If I was plugged into The Matrix, I would not at all look the way I actually do. I would look to you the way I see myself in my own mind.

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      2 hours ago

      I believe it was Switch that originally supposed to be Trans in the movie. They would be a man in the “Real World” and in the Matrix they would be a woman. But it was 1999 and Warner Bros nixed it.

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        13 hours ago

        Yes. And I understand that one of the character’s expressed gender is opposite inside and outside the Matrix.