Why isn’t there gender dysphoria?
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Replying to @MaxieZeusGod @nberlat and
He is, but it's probably more accurate to say it just never occurred to him because it's not something he's experienced, felt, or imagined for himself. With no emotional connection or understanding of the subject, why would he include it?
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Replying to @ashleylynch @MaxieZeusGod and
It's just weird to write a book about body swapping and never think about gender. It's not like there's no precedent! The recent Jumanji films are even more willing to engage here than Altered Carbon is.
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Replying to @nberlat @ashleylynch and
It's *there* in Altered Carbon but it's dealt with only as "exceptions" The protagonist is put in a female body to torture him Lurid descriptions of brothels with people forced into "fetish" bodies The awkwardness of resurrecting a woman as a man for lack of choice
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
It's typical science fiction tunnel vision, this refusal to really commit to the idea "If it's possible to do this thing all the time then people will do it all the time", transformative social change
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
Like the people who used to argue that they can make the Internet as fancy as they want but it will still always just be a hobby for nerds *Normal* people would never, say, look for sex partners online, they'd have no need to
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ashleylynch and
right. it's just weird to see it in the cyberpunk subgenera since it's been more adventurous about this virtually since its inception. Delany was writing about this in the 70s, which is 50 years ago now.
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Replying to @nberlat @arthur_affect and
Also, I think at this point there's something that's inherently retro about cyberpunk. It's still looking towards a future imperfect full of tech that doesn't yet exist, but it's also beholden to speculative fiction from the 70s as a baseline.
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Replying to @ashleylynch @nberlat and
Yeah the idea of "cyberpunk" as an aesthetic nowadays isn't that different from "steampunk" It's the future of the past, it's what people in the past thought "high tech" would look like, which feels more reassuring than the real high tech all around us
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And aesthetically it's tied to the archetype of the nerd, the backyard tinkerer You can see the "tech", be it in the form of exposed gears and pistons or circuit boards and keyboard terminals
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