When I read Gender Queer it seemed to me that the book was more sad than erotic. That is, it gave a picture of a young person struggling to find happiness and having a difficult time with it. In tone it is not much of an advertisement for the transgender life.
I took a look at this book on Amazon, where the blurb mentioned the author "uses" e/em/eir pronouns. No, actually, the author does not refer to "em" with those pronouns, but instead expects all of the rest of us to refer to the author using those invented third person pronouns. That's the problem, people! Homosexual women and men never demanded that people change our use of the English language, other than to request that people not use slurs like "faggot" or "queer". (Oh, how far we have come with the use of "queer", now used by very conventional heterosexual women and men to refer to themselves). But now we are expected to remember and use the third person pronouns selected by those who fancy themselves to be something other than females or males.
I'm all too aware of the ignorant yuppie scum at NYTimes and NPR slinging around the word "queer". My blood pressure notches up a little whenever i encounter it. My most charitable interpretation is they are so damned ignorant they're unaware of its history. My real impression is they are all desperately virtue signaling, attention seeking morons with such inadequate egos they feel the need to try to grab some of the social cachet of "oppression". The only thing these twerps know of oppression is what they read in the textbooks for their Grievance Studies classes. I'm so old i have personal memories of its being the worst sort of slur, right up there with the forbidden N-word, all too often the last word any number of gay men heard before the baseball bat hit their skull. For me, the word is still and always will be that offensive. Here endith the rant.
If you’re talking about the author of “gender queer”, here is an interview with her. She talks about what her neo-pronouns mean. https://archive.is/5VE9c
I hope you mention the incredibly disturbing normalization of pedophilia in the book. My district okayed it and as a teacher, I was appalled. I am survivor of childhood sexual abuse, and I can’t fathom why the author included that image or scene, or how anyone is okay with it.
It also just erased the entire post I'd queued up for Monday. ARGH
Darn, and I was just about to submit a brilliant comment! Oh well, I'll hold that thought.
Restack on this one!
When I read Gender Queer it seemed to me that the book was more sad than erotic. That is, it gave a picture of a young person struggling to find happiness and having a difficult time with it. In tone it is not much of an advertisement for the transgender life.
https://archive.is/5VE9c. Spot on. Here is an interview with her. The interview reads the same.
I took a look at this book on Amazon, where the blurb mentioned the author "uses" e/em/eir pronouns. No, actually, the author does not refer to "em" with those pronouns, but instead expects all of the rest of us to refer to the author using those invented third person pronouns. That's the problem, people! Homosexual women and men never demanded that people change our use of the English language, other than to request that people not use slurs like "faggot" or "queer". (Oh, how far we have come with the use of "queer", now used by very conventional heterosexual women and men to refer to themselves). But now we are expected to remember and use the third person pronouns selected by those who fancy themselves to be something other than females or males.
I'm all too aware of the ignorant yuppie scum at NYTimes and NPR slinging around the word "queer". My blood pressure notches up a little whenever i encounter it. My most charitable interpretation is they are so damned ignorant they're unaware of its history. My real impression is they are all desperately virtue signaling, attention seeking morons with such inadequate egos they feel the need to try to grab some of the social cachet of "oppression". The only thing these twerps know of oppression is what they read in the textbooks for their Grievance Studies classes. I'm so old i have personal memories of its being the worst sort of slur, right up there with the forbidden N-word, all too often the last word any number of gay men heard before the baseball bat hit their skull. For me, the word is still and always will be that offensive. Here endith the rant.
If you’re talking about the author of “gender queer”, here is an interview with her. She talks about what her neo-pronouns mean. https://archive.is/5VE9c
I hope you mention the incredibly disturbing normalization of pedophilia in the book. My district okayed it and as a teacher, I was appalled. I am survivor of childhood sexual abuse, and I can’t fathom why the author included that image or scene, or how anyone is okay with it.
You mean I can't be on the brink of smashing my computer on the ground until later? Dang :c
I read it! Brilliant lol. I give you an A+ for that book report.