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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they have duels and kill each other...not exactly pacifists...
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Replying to @nberlat @arthur_affect and
and they're not low tech either; they develop the world jumping tech; that characterization seems completey wrong, in short!
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yeah they don't do war or industry in the way we do them, but it's strongly implied that one of jael's major goals is to get an alliance with Whileaway because that will guarantee their victory in war
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Right; they’re super high tech and quite violent, they have coming of age rituals where they kill a bear single handed,right? I think I’m remembering that right?
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Yeah but the Whileaway one is the one who refuses the alliance because actual war is not their way
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
Okay they're not low tech, but for cultural reasons they believe in working with their hands and living close to the Earth
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That’s more accurate! But they also like go have adventures and do science and so forth. They’re not all farming corn all the time or something.
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