u/AromaticMorning4213

Okay, so I'm currently trying to write a fanfiction for the Transformers: Prime community that focusses on politics (both Cybertronian and human), which... really shold have been done sooner because the premise of the series and the franchise as a whole is war-centric and war is inherently political and I despise how most reddit/discord groups discussing rhe francise discourage political discussion (which is just assanine, but sorry for the run-on sentence). The human anti-villain OC driving a lot of the events in the story is a woman (who is unfortunately heterosexual, but is an ally of the LGBTQ+ community, powerful in her own right despite the fact that she is human in an environment where she is surrounded by alien war criminals AND she is still respected, and written by a member of the LGBTQ+ community) and a highly intelligent medical examiner by trade who is on a mission to hunt down primarily men (because they are more statistically likely than not to be the perpetrators) who abuse/SA other women and children in particular as she tries to figure out a way to save her species, not just from the Decepticons, but from climate change and the massive intersectional web of oppression that humans enforce.

And somehow the Decepticons, of all beings, even though they are not defined by empathy or morality, still instantly arrive at the conclusion that the systems of patriarchy and racism in particular are bad. Why? Because they recognize them as bad systems design from a strictly logical/strategic standpoint (even Shockwave, the hyperlogical and extremely low/no empathy one sees this without much explanation needed). The Autobots and human allies do reach the same conclusion through the moral/logical lens, but I think that separating the logical from the moral reasoning will be more effective to a broader audience because when women try to make the moral/ethical arguments, we are seen as too emotionally driven or dismissed entirely due to logical fallacies on the part of the men (and the women and others who have succumbed to the brainwashing or remain willfully ignorant because they benefit from the system) that no one with authority bothers to correct because such fallacies help maintain the status quo.

The human OC is framed as someone who does what is generally considered the wrong things for the right reasons BECAUSE the system didn't simply fail current and historically vulnerable populations, the system itself is working as intended and protecting the powerful is the clear priority and she is BEYOND done with the ones in power getting away with all of their bullshit.

"I've read a good deal of the comments and I think that yall are missing the bigger point. It's not just the parents, it's not just the teachers, it's the entire society that is the problem. Kids are smarter than adults give them credit for. They see the crap that is going on. They have no reason to trust even the most basic of systems because they see that the systems are working as intended and they believe that no matter what they do they have no hope of escaping them. They may not have the language to articulate it, but they see the rot and instead of trying to get rid of it, they are just trying to enjoy what little they can while they still can before they will be forced into labor or prison for the rest of their lives with no hope of having any real power or agency themselves. The disrespect towards parents, teachers, and even cops is justified. They are pushing back against systems and carving out their own power within systems that have currently and historically denied them agency. The "good students" (and I was one of them when I was a kid) are simply the ones who are either too afraid to act out or the ones who haven't given up hope, possibly both. The rest believe them to be naive. The worst part is that the latter group are correct. To fix the problems at home and in the classroom, we need to change as a society and show the kids that there is hope for a better future and that knowledge is a weapon that they themselves can sieze and wield to break down the oppressive systems that keep them down. But no one is ready for that conversation."