It may be obvious from the title, but it's worth a content warning -- The Female Man is really, really TERFy Explicitly so, although trans people obviously aren't the focus
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In the dystopian gender war timeline it talks about how the men have coped with the women seceding and declaring war on them by creating trans women out of oppressed lower-caste men to be superior sex slaves
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Joanna Russ did apologize for this plot point later on in life, at a panel, but it... wasn't a great apology Like this is the whole thingpic.twitter.com/4QFSUb7r8Q
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lmao what
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I know, I kept seeing references to people saying "Russ apologized for her transphobia later in life" and couldn't find where the apology was and eventually I dug it up that this is it
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i feel like this is one of those things where russ and the interviewer knew exactly what she was talking about, as did the presumed audience now though it's all just lost to the fog
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They were talking about The Female Man most likely
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Well, I mean, it says that they're talking about the Female Man Specifically they were probably talking about Jael's disgust and pity for the Changed
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THE FEMALE MAN, reviewed for ellie cons: weird second-wave transphobia about how trans women are constructed by the patriarchy pros: someone rips out a patriarch's throat with her cyborg teeth
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Ironically, the assassin is not the lesbian The lesbians from the no-men planet are low tech agrarian pacifists of the kind Ellie would dislike
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The assassin from the high tech war world is a het woman who makes do in the absence of men she can trust with a remote controlled mindless sex bot made from a genetically altered ape
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