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[–]gadflyinajar 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

My(straight/maybe bi) girlfriend(bi) wants to be a novelist, (I'm also trying to write something) and I support her so much in it, but as she was describing the bare basics that she finally got down most of it was just "It's a fantasy world, but like this group of people are like the bad white cis people and this group is like the good trans people and also the former are capitalists. Also there's a magic system." She reads a lot of the "Woke YA" genre where everyone is trans and disabled. To be clear I didn't so much as complain for a second as she was telling me about her worldbuilding, because my job as her boyfriend right now is to support her and make sure she accomplishes what she sets out to do, she can get real critique elsewhere. Supporting the fuck out of her, but man, it just all seemed so copy-paste to me. Weird thing is that she's had an at-length conversation with me about my own thoughts about transgender BS and agreed with me, admitting that she and everyone else just goes along with the stuff "to be nice" but that she hides that she knows its not true. So she doesn't seem to think wokism makes any sense at all, but she consumes weird woke propaganda non-stop and her fantasy novel just lacks any sort of ideological nuance. She's smart as fuck I don't understand why this stuff is so sticky when people start believing it. Love her to death though, I just avoid the subject matter with her specifically.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That sounds confusing and unsettling for sure. You are a sweetie for supporting her regardless. I've had a couple of no-go topics with loved ones along these lines, though not related to TRA stuff (yet). I hope the relationship continues to go well for you. From the sound of it she might be more willing to admit her true stance once the people around her are more comfortable with doing so.