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[–]our_team_is_winning 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The first time I read about women's breasts being cut off I was reading about the "witch" insanity in Early Modern Europe and also the behavior of some more recent serial killers. Cutting women's breasts off is some sick hateful male fantasy that they have conned women (girls!) into falling for.

Perhaps they will make other books in the series like the anorexic, the cutter, the heroin addict -- they're not girls with serious problems, they're role models!

All I can say is I wonder how many boxes of the Jazz Jennings doll are piled up in some warehouse unsold? Hopefully this book will be sitting unsold alongside it. Hopefully it's an e-book so fewer trees were lost in the making of this garbage.

[–]worried19[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Apparently it's a bestselling hardcover book and was also picked up for a TV series.

https://deadline.com/2020/08/amazon-kacen-callender-felix-ever-after-1203025246

[–]our_team_is_winning 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for the info. This makes my heart hurt.

The plot --- <Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages—after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned—Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. >

THIS is the message being sent to young black girls? Cut off your breasts and jump on the trans train?

This is from Wiki: <Callender is Black, queer, trans, and uses they/them and he/him pronouns>

They AND He? And oddly has a degree in JAPANESE (for all the Yaoi reading???)

From an interview "they" gave:

<The very first inspiration was the realization that I’m a demiboy, after questioning my identity even after coming out and starting my physical transition as nonbinary. I’d never heard the term demiboy before, and I was literally so excited to find this perfect label that I wanted to write a whole book about it. >

Demiboy?????

I can't say that "society" is failing our young women because society has always been sexist, racist, whatever-ist, that has not changed. The only thing that I can see which has changed is the wholesale push for this "queer" LARPing. She probably could have just been a popular female children's author instead of diving into the Woke Niche.

https://thequietpond.com/2020/06/17/our-friend-is-here-pride-month-edition-an-interview-with-kacen-callender-author-of-felix-ever-after-on-writing-themself-into-stories-and-telling-stories-that-empower-trans-and-enby-teens/

[–]TurtleFuzz 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is absolutely horrible :(