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- Oct 6, 2014
1. Yeah, I really doubt it's Ava's influence. If it was because she wanted to include more LGBT stuff into the show, the characters would like crossdressing and not need to be forced to do it. Also, jokes about Men/Boys forced to wear dresses and stuff are considered transphobic in a lot of SocJus circles. If Ava were involved in the decision to include so much of this, I think she'd tell him that forcing male characters into dresses and feminine gender roles isn't how you do trans representation.Considering that Enter went on a whole rant about porn and plot in his Drawing Together: The Movie review, I highly doubt he's asexual, and I'm certain this is a fetish.
I see only two other reasons as to why Enter is sticking the crossdressing into so many places:
1) Ava. We know she's super into including things like gays, bisexuals, transgenders, etc, so it's not unreasonable to think that she'd want crossdressing too, since I think it falls into the queer category. In any case, Enter is the sole writer, so he has complete control over this and shouldn't let his artist shoehorn what she wants into his project.
That's IF Ava even has a hand in this, which I doubt. As has been said here, his interest in body swapping has been present for a long while now, and crossdressing goes hand-in-hand with it.
2) He hates writing male characters. Enter's made it clear that he prefers writing for female characters because they "can do so much more" (hypocritical considering he hates boy/girl stereotypes in media). Therefore he wants the male characters wearing feminine clothing because it leans towards his preference.
Also something to keep in mind, how many guys have been the main characters of episodes compared to girls? Not many in the grand scheme of things, and it's usually Max. Keep the mentality of boys in girls' clothing (essentially being a girl character for the sake of this example) and Enter has mostly used girls as main characters because it's what he likes.
2. I've never understood this belief of his, when historically it's been girls that have been told more often that something isn't meant for them, and this did extend into cartoons for a long time where most girl characters would typically act one way. This has improved in the modern era, of course, but the pendulum never swung back around to pigeonhole boys the way girls once were, so I have no idea where Enter got this idea from. He also does a very poor job of showing "You can do more with girls!" in GA, as discussed on a previous page, so much of the world seems set to cater only to girls, and only to very feminine, girly-girl ones at that. Even Molly who's set up to be a tomboy at the beginning of the series, reveals she's secretly been a girly girl all along and starts wearing frills come the second "season". (He even pats himself on the back for this because he thinks it shows how there are different ways to be a girl... By having all his girl OCs be hyper feminine.) GA's world is full of lots of ponies, sparkles, rainbows and princess things, and not much left for kids who wouldn't be into that. I guess they have video games, but that's about it.
This might have something to do with the crossdressing fixation, since he seems to hate even writing girls whose interests and behavior are more typically masculine, and any character he introduces that acts that way needs to be more feminized eventually.