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[–][deleted] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Free audiobook? Or did you have to buy it/received from someone else? I will hate-listen myself as well.

I will tell you now that the author is clearly someone who hate read our old sub and r/GC. Both of the villains have intentionally bad, half-formed straw men from both places. (Let me reiterate that the villains are the only gay and lesbian characters.)

Ooooh ... if we recognize anything any any of us specifically have said, lets at least gets some LOLs out of it.

this particular gem went further than your basic anti-LBG diatribe [snip]

OMG!!! I'm very tempted to update the flair to "Transing Children", but am holding off until we get some solid excerpts.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 10 insightful - 8 fun10 insightful - 7 fun11 insightful - 8 fun -  (2 children)

hate-listen

I'm pretty tempted to hate-read it myself and then lend it to all my friends. Maybe I could suggest it to my book club? They were falling over themselves trying to say how they need to read more 'L..GBT... oh what was it Q+? QI?' literature, so perhaps I should gradually introduce more and more nonsense until someone TERFs out. Or alternatively they lap it up as stunning and brave and I leave.

[–]julesburm1891[S] 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

You play a dangerous game, my dude.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Let us know how you get on.

[–]julesburm1891[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I got it through my library on the Libby app. Your city probably has the same system.

It’s definitely not pulling quotes. The lesbian character says Felix transitioned because she’s a misogynist. It’s a pretty obvious and bad twisting of “maybe the explosion of girls identifying as boys has something to do with escaping the misogyny and sexual objectification of our culture.”

The boss villain at the end thinks “you guys” [trans people] are taking gay spaces because they don’t know “how hard it is to be gay.” (This is followed up with some straight girl yelling at him forever that black and trans have it so much worse and gays shouldn’t complain.) Its pretty obviously glossing over our actual complaint of “you are a bisexual woman who does not experience homophobia like gay men do and you should not fetishize them, harass them, or talk over their lived experiences.”

Anyways, I laughed my ass off at both parts because the author is so clearly furious LGB people and women won’t validate all their delusions.

[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The boss villain at the end thinks “you guys” [trans people] are taking gay spaces because they don’t know “how hard it is to be gay.” (This is followed up with some straight girl yelling at him forever that black and trans have it so much worse and gays shouldn’t complain.) Its pretty obviously glossing over our actual complaint of “you are a bisexual woman who does not experience homophobia like gay men do and you should not fetishize them, harass them, or talk over their lived experiences.”

It's interesting how the author brings up these points only to never explore them, which is not only lazy writing but also intellectually lazy.

Hell, if you're going to peddle this point, at least try to explain why genderspecials have it so much worse than gay men.