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This was an incredibly healing, challenging, and transformative book for me as a transmasculine person. McBee frankly and directly addresses the systemic harm caused by male violence without categorically demonizing masculinity or refusing to empathize with the men he’s studying.
Our experiences as trans people are very different— McBee’s is shaped by his passing as a straight white man, mine is shaped by my inability to pass. He avoids a very common mistake among trans writers of universalizing their experience into THE only trans experience; because of this, I didn’t feel erased or invalidated for the most part.
Our experiences as trans people are very different— McBee’s is shaped by his passing as a straight white man, mine is shaped by my inability to pass. He avoids a very common mistake among trans writers of universalizing their experience into THE only trans experience; because of this, I didn’t feel erased or invalidated for the most part.
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One of the rare times I have read a non-fiction book and thought it should have been longer. The book feels a little thin on both of the things I expected to get out of it — memoir and examination of masculinity. But I enjoyed what I did read, and regardless appreciate the ease of a shorter book segmented into easy-to-digest chapters.
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Really cool and needed book. I enjoyed Thomas’ writing and the brave work he did in confronting his own masculinity head on to make it something better. Made me very interested in reading his first book about his transition.
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dark
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informative
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medium-paced
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medium-paced
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i enjoyed this! as i already told geo, mcbee's prose really works for me. he's a journalist by trade and you can tell because of how clear, detailed, and elaborate he writes without being overly flowery, or without being pretentious/fake deep the way some nonfiction writers can be. however, i did find it to be repetitive at points, and he references quite a bit a researcher (who shall not be named) that i don't particularly respect. also he says most anyone can run a mile in under 11 minutes which i find personally offensive