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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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