This is a major theme of the 2014 Women's Prize winner A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, by Elmear MacBride, which is frequently commented on in contemporary reviews talking about the shocking and controversial depiction of the the protagonist's sex life
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Replying to @arthur_affect @joslyoung and
She's deleted it now but the OP was a comment saying "Would a *biological* woman have been considered for a prize if she wrote about women enjoying a rape fetish and seeking out abusive male sexual partners?"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @joslyoung and
I'm so fucking sick of this This, specifically TERFs not knowing what the fuck they're even talking about but making sweeping statements anyway to make their shitty little point
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Replying to @arthur_affect @joslyoung and
It's just like It's so obvious you only started caring about this shit now Regardless of the merits of the original point, you *wouldn't have said that* if you knew who won the prize in 2014 and if you generally followed the prize as a genuine interest of yours
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Replying to @arthur_affect @joslyoung and
This *constant fucking pattern* of TERFs suddenly discovering something *exists* as soon as a trans woman gets noticed for succeeding in it, and hastily moving in to defend their ancestral territory from invasion
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Replying to @arthur_affect @joslyoung and
"Trans women are ruining..." *spins wheel* "... roller derby!" "...Starcraft!" "...competitive women's weightlifting!" "...Reddit!" "...America's Next Top Model!"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @joslyoung and
Anyway this is fucking bullshit No, there is no "benefit" to being a trans woman up for a women's writing award, *especially* a trans woman who writes about "controversial themes"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @joslyoung and
Elmear MacBride's book was "controversial" but people didn't propose she get *kicked off the shortlist* because her book had "ambiguous" depictions of a protagonist who seeks out self-destructive sexual relationships and gains pleasure from them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @joslyoung and
They didn't say she fucking *wasn't a woman* because of that shit Even back in the heyday of anti-porn second-wave feminism Nancy Friday managed to become a feminist icon in 1973 by publishing a book about this shit (My Secret Garden)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @joslyoung and
Backtracking hardpic.twitter.com/GbZkn2yTwf
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Her followers are going to tell her it's different because the protagonist is molested by her uncle at a young age and therefore the book unambiguously presents her relationships with men as traumatic and bad while Peters' book portrays sexual violence as awesome and good
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TeflonMask and
Because, of course, they say and do everything in bad faith (The biggest difference between Peters' book and every previous Women's Prize shortlist candidate is that TERFs are going to *read* it through as hostile a lens as they possibly can)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TeflonMask and
Arthur Chu Retweeted
Huh, weird, it sounds like she wants a... warning of some kind, before reading the book, about upsetting material she might find in it https://twitter.com/joslyoung/status/1380131922324623368?s=20 … https://twitter.com/joslyoung/status/1380127804809969666?s=20 …
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