That sort of rhetoric was very common in the '70s, before the concept of gender-as-performance found footing in activist settings. FWIW, one of the pioneers of that argument (Jean O'Leary) later apologised for her role in driving gender variant people out of the early LGBT movement.

Um. A trans woman has been murdered every week this year. So yeah, maybe that makes me a humourless scold to think it's not O.K. to make such a flippant joke about trans people. Christ. The reason people are so sensitive to this kind of thing is that the vast majority of representation of media is this kind of joke (I…

I'm fairly sure the Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers?) you're thinking of is actually now Captain Marvel and will have a movie under that name. The Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) mentioned in this article is a Pakistani teenage girl who writes fanfic about Carol Danvers' adventures with the Avengers.

I mean a.) all but one of those movies came out after the current point in time we're in (relative) and b.) it's probably Easy A

I don't know what you're talking about with Honey Boo Boo?? You seem to be sorely mistaken because TLC cancelled the show as soon as they realised June was shacking up with a paedophile (who had only just been released at that point). I'm not really inclined to take the rest of your argument well if your main point is…

There's definitely a lot higher ratio in media than there is in real life (~1 transguy to every 3 transwomen).

Okay, I'm excited then.

If they really want a shared-universe franchise based on British folklore, the Knights of the Round Table would be a much better idea. It's got a much larger scope. You could have a prequel revolving around Merlin's incubus powers/those two dragons under that castle, a romance-action hybrid based around Tristan &…