I am fine with Anybody identifying as a boy in this version, but I saw a Screenrant article slamming the original character as a Tomboy as being problematic. How is being a Tomboy or people realistically treating a Tomboy poorly in a piece of art problematic?
shareBeing a Tomboy that's realistically treated poorly by other people is not at all problematic in a piece of art. Frankly, one of the reasons that I prefer the old, original 1961 film version of West Side Story over the 2021 film version of WSS is because in the 1961 film version, Anybodys was a girl and a tomboy who was treated poorly throughout most of the movie but who fought to be accepted as an equal by the Jets.
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