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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Effy Breeds Lilacs Out Of The Dead Land‏ @EffInvictus 11 Jan 2020

      To a certain extent, these are comorbid phenomena- TERFs generally reject anything that smacks of "postmodernism", people who loathe critical theory generally are ragingly transphobic, but it's intriguing to imagine just what species of bigot we have under the microscope here.

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    2. Effy Breeds Lilacs Out Of The Dead Land‏ @EffInvictus 11 Jan 2020

      The basic elements of the story, though, are meant to make the story seem ostensibly progressive. You have the US military being evil and stupid, you have artificial intelligences behaving in unfathomable ways, you have a world where climate change has desertified the US...

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    3. Effy Breeds Lilacs Out Of The Dead Land‏ @EffInvictus 11 Jan 2020

      In other words, on the surface this story is written, and the pseudonym chosen, to make it seem like it was written by someone who might conceivably be, if not trans specifically, at least someone who would be down with critical theories of gender.

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    4. Effy Breeds Lilacs Out Of The Dead Land‏ @EffInvictus 11 Jan 2020

      And the transphobia requires digging into the story a bit. On the surface, you see, it seems like it might be gender affirming, but let's stop and take a reality check here. Let's shear away the science-fictional elements of the story and treat this as a-

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    5. Effy Breeds Lilacs Out Of The Dead Land‏ @EffInvictus 11 Jan 2020

      -straightforward story about a trans person which is going through a lot of metaphors. Thus, this story is about how an AFAB person who has come out as nonbinary still is essentially feminine in how they conceive of the world!

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    6. Effy Breeds Lilacs Out Of The Dead Land‏ @EffInvictus 11 Jan 2020

      Imagine if you wrote this kind of story and used a trans woman instead, and it was all about how she was actually essentially masculine in how she thought, and it sprinkled in lots of references to soy-based foods. People would instantly recognize it was transphobic propaganda.

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    7. Effy Breeds Lilacs Out Of The Dead Land‏ @EffInvictus 11 Jan 2020

      And the transphobic "joke" the story takes its title from is aimed primarily at trans women and transfeminine people! But the author veils this behind two levels so we don't think about how the essence of the story is that femininity and masculinity

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    8. Effy Breeds Lilacs Out Of The Dead Land‏ @EffInvictus 11 Jan 2020

      are baked in neurologically and so the pilot wants to fuck the gunner because the pilot is really still a woman and the gunner really is still a man. And so the story also becomes brutally homophobic at this point.

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    9. Effy Breeds Lilacs Out Of The Dead Land‏ @EffInvictus 11 Jan 2020

      Because the pilot has been musing about how they turned to women because men were so inexplicable, but with the aid of ~*queer theory*~, they're able to have emotional relations with men (that are still deeply gendered by the story).

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    10. Effy Breeds Lilacs Out Of The Dead Land‏ @EffInvictus 11 Jan 2020

      I'm not sure, again, if this is indulging in TERFery about how transness will erase lesbians (I doubt it) or if this is a broader case about how genuine queerness is rare and most people who claim it are just pretending. Disgusting either way.

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Jan 2020
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      A couple quibbles - I don't read the gunner as AMAB There's nothing that specifically says they are, and notably when it describes the two of them having sex there's no reference to PIV

      8:36 AM - 11 Jan 2020
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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Jan 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @EffInvictus

          Also, before her "transition" the narrator wasn't a lesbian - it says she only dated men and her attraction to women was ambiguous

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