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I think Blitzø's name is more relevant as a deadnaming metaphor; Sallie Mae is just explicitly trans. Blitzø's not really got that much overlap with trans stuff otherwise: the extent he burned his connections to the past is more literal and accidental than figurative and intentional, and the extent he wants to reinvent himself is just to be cool rather than to actually change from who he used to be.
And that's actually a good tactic! The idea that a political goal you support has ramifications outside of your particular ideological faction is important, and using extrapolations in media can be a) a little less preachy, and b) provide reasoning to people who can't imagine or empathize with your central use case. In this case, with something that can actually happen to (non-trans) people in the real world! There's no master-class in literature happening here, by any means, but it's something a lot of activist media struggles with, and Helluva Boss handles it with something approaching finesse, such that I'm not entirely sure they did it on purpose.
It just doesn't very often.
Yeah, having it show up at the same time as the writer's name get her tagline might have been a decent shot, but it's a little too self-aggrandizing without the underlying support, and there's not really any other gag for that entire flashback sequence, beyond how awkward the villain-of-the-week can be. The extent the character is just a Westie stereotype without any particular investigation of what that actually means (like redneck in the US, it's not just a political affiliation!) is one of the areas I'd say falls more on the cringe side.
Beyond that, VivziePop's works in general kinda struggle with the general clown-nose on, clown-nose off problem: trying to be something other than a comedy (musical? drama? newgrounds flash gone wild?), and the motioning at a handful of jokes an episode. There's occasionally funny bits -- Fizz being hilariously incompetent at self-defense in s2e6 got a few giggles from me, and almost all of the dildo jokes in s2e3 hit even if a lot of viewers won't catch them on first viewing (there were people seated in those chairs!) -- but they're kinda filler for the central drama, and even as adult comedy it's a very far cry from Oglaf. It's still better than the comedians-who-aren't-trying-to-be-funny, but even if the "comedy" is a sop to funding (see Adventure Time), I can empathize with the complaint that it's definitely not self-aware enough of that.
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