I mean the thing about that excerpt is that even something as banal as this would be sufficient to enrage a TERF so I honestly don't really feel like it's terribly worth anyone's time to unpack from a trans discourse perspective
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This is kind of what you see a lot, if you come out as a trans woman inside a very, eh, socially awkward nerd space For the most part, your colleagues do not wish to stop liking you, and they do not wish you to stop liking them But they are also, eh, kindergartners at best
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Yeah, I mean, going off of only the excerpts, it seems to be probably the least disastrous part of the book, except the extent to which it's a self-own about the character's extremely vague understanding of sexuality.
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From what I've seen, it's basically the most blandest way the book deals with the character, even with the possible mea culpa aspect of it; talking like, "so bland that I can't even really get offended by what is still transphobic" levels of bland, which is its own achievement
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For that scene specifically and nothing else in the book, this was my initial takepic.twitter.com/wJOBxomVnj
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There's probably a few writers who struggle with the question of "how do I demonstrate that a character is trans without actually just saying so?" But Cline is unburdened by a dislike of straightforward exposition, so he just said it.
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I guess i really don't remember enough about the first book to say much about it other than it was pretty unmemorable...
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Trying to figure out what’s in this image is easier than figuring out what you’re reading in ready player onepic.twitter.com/uDquny0Ve3
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It does seem kind of interesting how people react to it, as opposed to the snippets of the rest of the book I've seen. God I can't get through like one of them without cringing though.
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