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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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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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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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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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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @MaxieZeusGod
Yeah, I've never liked that implication of the Cyberpunk rules. I remember wanting to ask the designer about it, but I can't remember if I actually did. I do remember him saying that ordinary prosthetics and pacemakers and stuff "didn't count", but that was a handwave.
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Yeah especially because "gross alterations" like an arm or a leg give a *bigger* hit to Humanity than putting an actual chip in your brain
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MaxieZeusGod
yeah, it's definitely a thing where the mechanic exists to limit player use of cyberware but the rationale for it is extremely poorly thought out
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