em-wils.bsky.social
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Just in: Most Illiterate Person Alive not a big reader.
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Wrong. There is no opportunity here. They'll cry that they didn't want it, but they'll be dead and buried before they vote for anyone but a Republican. People have been saying they don't like Trump for years, and it hasn't stopped them from voting for him.
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You mention "Cavemanmaxxing," which, one, very good phrasing, but two, it's not particularly true. That description - Stef's "caveman mug," comes from Stef's narration, and should probably be read as dysphoria-influenced self-perception in text. Everyone else thinks his face is quite pretty.
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They aren't, though, are they? They are, by and large, a unified group who get their cues on what to believe from the exact same places. Keep pretending that the mythical "one good republican" exists, but the rest of us won't be that naïve.
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Hi. We've never met, but this is nuts. You should put a nameplate on your door at least. Don't do the conversations if you don't want to, but make the information visible.
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God, yeah, it does that. Ctrl+Alt+Delete then escape usually fixes that for me. That and the weird bug I get where the mouse decides to only interact with one window and click right through the others.
I need to switch to Linux.
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Well well well, it's looking more like my bet with Katie will resolve in my favour.
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Great work! Where do we put the $10? You just have to promise to give it back if you ever stop being cis.
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This is the good, succinct framing that I wasn't able to come up with.
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For example, if we're assuming that we're investigating the idea of society coercing gender out of everyone, then graduates being happy endorses that position, so either the participants can never be happy, or the metaphor has to break down.
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But also, I don't have a particularly coherent reading of the text in a single, easy-to-follow metaphor sense. It's easy to find bits and pieces here and there, but much harder to turn that all into a single large social commentary.
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I think you're off base by conceptualizing sponsors as the state. As much as there is state repression, I think it's more important that they're the previous generation, enforcing gender as it was enforced on them. While the state is a part of that apparatus, it's probably too restrictive a read.
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Alyson
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To add to the discussion about Grandmother, it's also serving as commentary on older literature "within the genre," i.e. forcefem that is more about humiliation than empowerment, which you may not have context for. It might be good to keep in mind later, but mostly imo it's just dunking on misogyny.
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Free space really should be "trans men don't exist."
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There are multiple spellings of xe/xem pronouns, so you might not even have gotten that wrong. Also Calvinism is the worst idea, actually.
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Wrt why Stef chose Aaron, there's an easy answer. The reader knows that he's a danger to Stef, but that danger only becomes reality when Stef's gender becomes known to him. This isn't so much a metaphor as it is a description of growing up trans, both protected and threatened by masculinity.