Jessie Gender
, a.k.a. Jessie Earl, is a Transgender Youtuber. She primarily reviews and discusses Star Trek, but also discusses political, social and LGBTQ issues. She also has a secondary channel called Jessie Gender After Dark, which, as the name implies, has a more adult focus. Given she's appeared on her main channel in nightwear to discuss sex in Star Trek...
In March of 2023, Jessie Gender announced that she will be writing and directing Identiteaze, a Science Fiction short film.
She has accounts on Twitch and Nebula as well.
This show provides examples of:
- Accentuate the Negative: Inverted Trope, Jessie always tries to avoid being too negative and take a balanced approach to things.
- Anti-Intellectualism: Jessie's conclusion about Matt Walsh; his continued insistence that people answer "What is a woman?" with a simple, concise description shows him to be a fundamentally uncurious man who doesn't want to put in the work of learning about anything.
- Beware the Nice Ones: While Jessie does her best to give everyone the benefit of the doubt and hear out both sides, the gloves come off whenever she encounters someone maliciously trying to harm others.
- Broken Pedestal:
- Jessie has this view of the author J. K. Rowling . She was a major fan of Harry Potter as a child, but as an adult she is very hurt and angry at Rowling's vocal support of TERF ideology. This is outlined in several videos, most comprehensively in the video "I'm Done With JK Rowling".
- She also takes this view with Gene Roddenberry. He was something of a visionary and somewhat willing to push the envelope with racial issues, but drew a hard line on homosexuality. Oh, he also had an open relationship with his wife and never told her. Oh, he was also an absolute shit to work with and stole credit all the time. Oh, he was also probably The Executive who raped Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Rand). Jessie recognizes his successes, but hates his personal failings.
- Jessie has this view of the author J. K. Rowling . She was a major fan of Harry Potter as a child, but as an adult she is very hurt and angry at Rowling's vocal support of TERF ideology. This is outlined in several videos, most comprehensively in the video "I'm Done With JK Rowling
- Capitalism Is Bad: Comes up a couple times, usually comparing capitalism at its worst to the Ferengi.
- Cute Kitten: At the end of her video Exploring The "Gender Critical" Radicalization Pipeline, we see Jessie being comforted by her cat Newt.
- Deadpan Snarker: Not often, but occasionally shows up.
- The Hero's Journey: Her videos on Starfield and Star Wars serve as takedowns of the concept, and lamentation for how little media seems willing to investigate how reactionary it is.
- Ms. Fanservice: For Sex in Star Trek: Exploring Gene Roddenberry's Sexual Frontier, she spends a good portion of the run time (which is nearly three hours) in lingerie and in a seductive pose to make her point.
- No Bisexuals: She devotes a video to discussing bisexual erasure in sci-fi television, such as Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Once per Episode: Always greets her audience with "Hello, interwebs!"
- Pet-Peeve Trope: For Jessie it's The Hero's Journey, as she regards it as too restrictive and even reactionary.
- Spiritual Antithesis: Discussed when she compares Please Stand By favourably to the maligned Sia film Music (2021). Both are films about a young woman with autism (both actresses were neurotypical) and how they express themselves, with a plot involving the characters' older sisters learning to care for them. Music's portrayal is very stereotypical and more symbolic, with the character being Inspirationally Disabled and only serving as a Living MacGuffin to facilitate her sister's story. Please Stand By protagonist Wendy is very well researched, with the portrayal avoiding Hollywood Autism cliches and instead making Wendy her own specific woman - and everyone else serves her story.
- Self-Deprecation: Jessie is fond of this kind of humor.
- Take That!: She describes the Vorta as slimy middle-managers who are mistaken for smart but are really just good at talking fast. Then she puts up a picture of Ben Shapiro.
- Trekkie: Her unabashed love of Star Trek comes up frequently.
- We ARE Struggling Together: A central theme of her videos centering on TERFs (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists) is that anti-Trans rhetoric is detrimental to the struggles of women, LGBTQ people and other minorities.
