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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. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 May 2020

      Lol you realize that this means JKR is Glinner levels of TERF Like how obsessed do you have to be with the topic that you constantly have anti-trans quotes on your clipboard and just accidentally paste one into your tweet about a kid's cute drawing

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    2. jmatonak‏ @jmatonak 29 May 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @MaxieZeusGod

      "i'll write a fantasy series for kids full of magical transformations and messages about how it's cool to be who you are- but sex is totally immutable and determined and saying otherwise is icky!" i don't get jkr at all but then, i don't have to

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 May 2020
      Replying to @jmatonak @MaxieZeusGod

      Honestly Harry Potter is so stupid and Polyjuice Potion so much a lazy plot contrivance with no worldbuilding behind it - like everything else in the story - that I actually think this is an unfair comparison The author of Altered Carbon being a TERF is far worse

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    4. jmatonak‏ @jmatonak 29 May 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @MaxieZeusGod

      "sex change" bodymods is/are one of the oldest tropes in cyberpunk i'm not saying any of that literature was "trans-positive" but it existed i do not understand how a person can be into cyberpunk and terfery at the same time at all

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 May 2020
      Replying to @jmatonak @MaxieZeusGod

      I haven't actually read or seen Altered Carbon but it seems to be one of those science fiction works that comes down on the side of "This technology is unnatural and BAD" Which unfortunately is a common stance for SF to take, especially cyberpunk

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 May 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @jmatonak @MaxieZeusGod

          See how the classic cyberpunk RPGs Cyberpunk 2013 and Cyberpunk 2020 literally have a "Humanity" score that goes down the more augmentations you get Eclipse Phase was specifically written to try to counteract the horrible implications of this kind of trope

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 May 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @jmatonak @MaxieZeusGod

          (It's deeply fucked that by Cyberpunk 2013's rules someone in the *present-day real world* who has a prosthetic arm or leg would be "less human" for that reason and more likely to become a serial killer or whatever)

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        2. jmatonak‏ @jmatonak 29 May 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @MaxieZeusGod

          yeah, well, i don't agree and never have it makes no sense to me to say fancy prosthetic limbs are good (which they are) but then say gender affirmation surgery or "sex change" or whatever you want to call it is bad that is not a coherent pair of philosophical positions

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        3. Social Sci-Fi‏ @social_scifi 29 May 2020
          Replying to @jmatonak @arthur_affect @MaxieZeusGod

          You *can* make it into an internally coherent (but still wrong) position, but holding it would require a person to reject *all* aids move a person away from "baseline human", including clothes. So until we see these people buck naked, your point stands....

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        2. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 29 May 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @jmatonak @MaxieZeusGod

          my altered carbon take is that it's a critique of modernity masquerading as a critique of capitalism people say, over and over, that things suck because capitalism has perverted the technology of the stack but the real throughline is that the stack is per se a nightmare

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        3. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 29 May 2020
          Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and

          it's hard to find an sf series that more deeply loathes its own central conceit, namely that people can hop bodies it's just a constant source of horror, almost never a source of exploration or queerness or joy

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        2. LightningLouie Interface 2037 Ready For Inquiry‏ @Elpico72 30 May 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @jmatonak @MaxieZeusGod

          Yeah, but that's games. If you look at stuff like Rucker's Wetware or Sterling's Schismatrix, there's really not much of an attachment to the notion of the human body as sacrosanct and inviolable. And that goes back to Varley in the '70s.

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        3. LightningLouie Interface 2037 Ready For Inquiry‏ @Elpico72 30 May 2020
          Replying to @Elpico72 @arthur_affect and

          Literary cyberpunk always had a strong Stapledonian infuence. The idea being that if a human mind is reducible to data, there's no reason why anything about the human condition is essential or eternal. Esp. if you want to go live in space (cyber- or outer).

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        1. LightningLouie Interface 2037 Ready For Inquiry‏ @Elpico72 30 May 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @jmatonak @MaxieZeusGod

          In George Alec Effinger's "When Gravity Fails" (1986), a lot of the protagonist's female acquaintances are men who flipped genders and this is not seen as a big deal. And in Banks' Culture series it's considered normal to change genders/sexual identities every few decades.

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        2. Laurent Weppe  🔻‏ @Laurent_Weppe 31 May 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @jmatonak @MaxieZeusGod

          In Altered Carbon, the only people who can afford the technology to casually change their bodies are immortal billionnaires who have all kind of decadent perversions…

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        3. Laurent Weppe  🔻‏ @Laurent_Weppe 31 May 2020
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          one murder people but its okay because they provide them replacement bodies, another torture people by putting their minds in animal bodies, etc…

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