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fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
0.25
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I'm nonbinary transmisogy exempt asian american and I have a lot of problems with this story. The author conflates gender identity with physical body parts. For a person to be transgender you simply need to identify as transgender. That's it. You don't need to start dressing differently, have surgery, take hormones, change your name, change your pronouns, etc etc. To require any of this for a trans person to be 'legitimately trans' is transphobic and transmisogyny. We don't need to pass as one of the two cis genders or the bizarre, third 'androgynous' nonbinary gender to be transgender.
There's also the issue of how far does this 'moot surgery' go. Does the author think every person should also get de-racialization surgery? She seems to imply via the transphobic character [Mike] that trans 'moot' people get surgeries to have a uniform, generic look. This is some fucked up racist sentiment. I also venture that it's deeply antiblack as I assume the 'generic moot' appearance that people are getting does not include Black / African features. Specifically that it's also erasing Black / African features to achieve... I'm not entirely sure what the most legitimate racial features they are aiming for, but I will assume white european. Unless the author is acknowledging whatever internalized racism they have, and is going for Indian features? That's also pretty fucked up. If the author pointed out how fucked up this is, I wouldn't mind it as a plot point. But going by how fucked up her ideas of trans people are, I betting it's entirely unaccounted for.
I guess the class structure is interesting in the story. It's essentially USAmerica, except with the details fudged.
I don't know. It's a short story, the author gets a shitton wrong about gender and is accidentally(?) racist and transphobic all over the place. Take out the transgender parts for a second. What you have is a story about a impoverished, Nth class filipino american who enters a marathon to show off body mods and get a big cash payout in order to move up in the world. Welp. It was well written, well edited. I think it had a fairly thought out plot and used characters well. I guess.
I started this book hopeful when I saw there was a Filipino protagonist and ended repulsed and soured on the author and the book. I've only read 'loss of signal' an ableist 'fix the cr*pple' short story, and 'machinehood'. The second book had a fantastic, interesting plot. I thought the MC was an uncomfortably pro military character however. But that's beside the point in that I'm not sure how to divide the fictional plot from the author's personal opinions and politics infesting her works. Honestly, after reading this I decided never to read anything else from this author. I have better things read.
Content warnings:
major classism, xenophobia, blood, gore, child abuse, physical abuse, violence, body horror, medical content transphobia, misgendering,
I'm nonbinary transmisogy exempt asian american and I have a lot of problems with this story. The author conflates gender identity with physical body parts. For a person to be transgender you simply need to identify as transgender. That's it. You don't need to start dressing differently, have surgery, take hormones, change your name, change your pronouns, etc etc. To require any of this for a trans person to be 'legitimately trans' is transphobic and transmisogyny. We don't need to pass as one of the two cis genders or the bizarre, third 'androgynous' nonbinary gender to be transgender.
There's also the issue of how far does this 'moot surgery' go. Does the author think every person should also get de-racialization surgery? She seems to imply via the transphobic character [Mike] that trans 'moot' people get surgeries to have a uniform, generic look. This is some fucked up racist sentiment. I also venture that it's deeply antiblack as I assume the 'generic moot' appearance that people are getting does not include Black / African features. Specifically that it's also erasing Black / African features to achieve... I'm not entirely sure what the most legitimate racial features they are aiming for, but I will assume white european. Unless the author is acknowledging whatever internalized racism they have, and is going for Indian features? That's also pretty fucked up. If the author pointed out how fucked up this is, I wouldn't mind it as a plot point. But going by how fucked up her ideas of trans people are, I betting it's entirely unaccounted for.
I guess the class structure is interesting in the story. It's essentially USAmerica, except with the details fudged.
I don't know. It's a short story, the author gets a shitton wrong about gender and is accidentally(?) racist and transphobic all over the place. Take out the transgender parts for a second. What you have is a story about a impoverished, Nth class filipino american who enters a marathon to show off body mods and get a big cash payout in order to move up in the world. Welp. It was well written, well edited. I think it had a fairly thought out plot and used characters well. I guess.
I started this book hopeful when I saw there was a Filipino protagonist and ended repulsed and soured on the author and the book. I've only read 'loss of signal' an ableist 'fix the cr*pple' short story, and 'machinehood'. The second book had a fantastic, interesting plot. I thought the MC was an uncomfortably pro military character however. But that's beside the point in that I'm not sure how to divide the fictional plot from the author's personal opinions and politics infesting her works. Honestly, after reading this I decided never to read anything else from this author. I have better things read.
Content warnings:
major classism, xenophobia, blood, gore, child abuse, physical abuse, violence, body horror, medical content transphobia, misgendering,
Content Warnings
Graphic: Transphobia, Xenophobia, Blood, Gore, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, and Medical content
madarauchiha's review
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
0.25
β€οΈ 𧑠π π π π my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara π π π π 𧑠β€οΈ
I'm nonbinary transmisogy exempt asian american and I have a lot of problems with this story. The author conflates gender identity with physical body parts. For a person to be transgender you simply need to identify as transgender. That's it. You don't need to start dressing differently, have surgery, take hormones, change your name, change your pronouns, etc etc. To require any of this for a trans person to be 'legitimately trans' is transphobic and transmisogyny. We don't need to pass as one of the two cis genders or the bizarre, third 'androgynous' nonbinary gender to be transgender.
There's also the issue of how far does this 'moot surgery' go. Does the author think every person should also get de-racialization surgery? She seems to imply via the transphobic character [the first mountain mike] that trans 'moot' people get surgeries to have a uniform, generic look. This is some fucked up racist sentiment. I also venture that it's deeply antiblack as I assume the 'generic moot' appearance that people are getting does not include Black / African features. Specifically that it's also erasing Black / African features to achieve... I'm not entirely sure what the most legitimate racial features they are aiming for, but I will assume white european.
I guess the class structure is interesting in the story. It's essentially USAmerica, except with the details fudged.
I don't know. It's a short story, the author gets a shit ton wrong about gender and is accidentaly(?) racist and transphobic all over the place. Take out the transgender parts for a second. What you have is a story about a impoverished not Nth class Filipino american who enters a marathon to show off body mods and get a big cash payout in order to move up in the world. Welp. It was well written, well edited. I think it had a fairly thought out plot and used characters well. I guess.
I started this book hopeful when I saw there was a Filipino protagonist and ended repulsed and soured on the author and the book. I've only read 'loss of signal' an ableist 'fix the cr*pple' short story, and 'machinehood'. The second book had a fantastic, interesting plot. I thought the MC was an uncomfortably pro military character however. But that's beside the point in that I'm not sure how to divide the fictional plot from the author's personal opinions and politics infesting her works.
Content warnings:
major classism, xenophobia, blood, gore, child abuse, physical abuse, violence, body horror, medical content transphobia, misgendering,
I'm nonbinary transmisogy exempt asian american and I have a lot of problems with this story. The author conflates gender identity with physical body parts. For a person to be transgender you simply need to identify as transgender. That's it. You don't need to start dressing differently, have surgery, take hormones, change your name, change your pronouns, etc etc. To require any of this for a trans person to be 'legitimately trans' is transphobic and transmisogyny. We don't need to pass as one of the two cis genders or the bizarre, third 'androgynous' nonbinary gender to be transgender.
There's also the issue of how far does this 'moot surgery' go. Does the author think every person should also get de-racialization surgery? She seems to imply via the transphobic character [the first mountain mike] that trans 'moot' people get surgeries to have a uniform, generic look. This is some fucked up racist sentiment. I also venture that it's deeply antiblack as I assume the 'generic moot' appearance that people are getting does not include Black / African features. Specifically that it's also erasing Black / African features to achieve... I'm not entirely sure what the most legitimate racial features they are aiming for, but I will assume white european.
I guess the class structure is interesting in the story. It's essentially USAmerica, except with the details fudged.
I don't know. It's a short story, the author gets a shit ton wrong about gender and is accidentaly(?) racist and transphobic all over the place. Take out the transgender parts for a second. What you have is a story about a impoverished not Nth class Filipino american who enters a marathon to show off body mods and get a big cash payout in order to move up in the world. Welp. It was well written, well edited. I think it had a fairly thought out plot and used characters well. I guess.
I started this book hopeful when I saw there was a Filipino protagonist and ended repulsed and soured on the author and the book. I've only read 'loss of signal' an ableist 'fix the cr*pple' short story, and 'machinehood'. The second book had a fantastic, interesting plot. I thought the MC was an uncomfortably pro military character however. But that's beside the point in that I'm not sure how to divide the fictional plot from the author's personal opinions and politics infesting her works.
Content warnings:
major classism, xenophobia, blood, gore, child abuse, physical abuse, violence, body horror, medical content transphobia, misgendering,
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Gore, Medical content, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Violence, and Xenophobia
sarah984's review
adventurous
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
I liked the idea of the cybernetically enhanced race, and the descriptions of that, along with the characterβs major dilemma and the ending, were good. However, for a short story, there were a lot of other things thrown in that seemed kind of pointless (the unpleasant Luddite characters for example) and most of the characters are pretty two-dimensional.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug use, Medical content, Self harm, and Transphobia
Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Gore, Religious bigotry, and Xenophobia
Minor: Vomit
The self-harm is in the context of performing an impromptu surgery on herself (needing to remove a damaged subdermal chip) The transphobia involves multiple characters repeatedly misgendering nonbinary characters
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