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Got a WIP you're excited about? Want to rave about your fave? Or is your fandom absolutely in love with a character who detracts from every scene they bumble into, and you need somewhere to vent? You're in the right place!

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Re: Books - Detransition, Baby

[(Anonymous)]

sa Part 6, we're almost done!

Katrina takes Reese to an essential oils party and Reese is an asshole thinking about all these sad cishet women who believe in this shit. But oops! One of Katrina's friends turns out to be married to the dude Reese is fucking! And he got HIV from fucking a previous transwoman! Katrina justifiably freaks out but Reese thinks she's being stupid for worrying about HIV and babies. Amy/Ames agrees, saying it's "the most basic freak-out." Amy/Ames asks Reese when he's going to change, and Reese says:

“I’ll change when it’s worth it to me to change. The actual question is whether this thing with Katrina is real enough for either of us to bother to change. For you to change too, for you to get back in touch with yourself. For Katrina to change too, because apparently she needs to.”

REESE IS THE BIGGEST FUCKING ASSHOLE, OMG. This situation is literally entirely his fault and all he can say is that Amy/Ames needs to transition again and Katrina needs to get over her anti-AIDS bigotry, or whatever. He has zero empathy for either of them, and when he hears that Katrina is considering an abortion, he freaks out and sends an awful email to them because they're threatening HIS baby. HIS.

Katrina gives Amy/Ames an ultimatum - stay and be a father, or dissolve their relationship and she gets an abortion. This characterization choice feels icky to me and inauthentic. It's presently coldly and without much empathy for Katrina. Why can't she keep the baby and raise it with her supportive mother and friends?

Amy/Ames is like, fuck, I'm depressed as hell and don't want my baby to know me as a dude. He tells Katrina that he'll raise the kid with her, but he can't promise not to transition again. Katrina isn't so hot for this idea, but - HEY! pay attention to Reese again! He's had a trans miscarriage, okay?? In an attempt to numb his pain he walks into the freezing ocean, and everybody misinterprets it as a suicide attempt. They all reconnect at the hospital and Reese actually apologizes! But not without Katrina doing some self-flagellation of her own, saying that she "wanted the good parts of queerness without the hard parts." WTF?? Also apparently worrying about AIDS and the baby was homophobic.

Reese tries to accept the fact that he won't get to be a mother to the baby. I guess that's almost growth? But what else is he gonna do? He has no other choice. That's not actually change if you just accept the situation your own shitty behavior has put you in!

Re: Books - Detransition, Baby

[(Anonymous)]

> In an attempt to numb his pain he walks into the freezing ocean

Pmsl, that is so fucking male.

I wish I could say that I was shocked at this entry, but it sounds like all the other shitty narcissistlit I've seen. Especially the throwing Katrina under the bus, and that, "For Katrina to change too, because apparently she needs to.” All these guys treat their female characters the same way. I bet there's a near identical line in Anger Is A Gift. They think it's cute and sassy and instead it just comes across as creepily desperate to attack a woman.