It's happening all over. I don't know whether anyone here has read Vox by Christina Dalcher, but she had a film deal for that book and the studio sent the script to her with one of her lesbian characters changed to a transwoman. She's killed off the deal and won't let them make the film. After I read her most recent one, Femlandia, I thought she must be GC so went looking for her Twitter, and she absolutely is - will be buying her next book, out this summer, on release. She writes dystopian women's fiction, if you liked The Handmaid's Tale you'd probably like her stuff.
I've read the book, won't be watching the film.
It's in my wish list, so hoping to read it soon, as is Hags. I just have a pile of books to get through first because I seem to have hit a reading wall.I've just ordered Hags (the Kindle edition is €11.99) but has anyone read this?
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Good for her for sticking by her intellectual property, why do they have to change characters like that? It's almost as if you can't have lesbian characters in films any more.
I love Christina Dalchers books. Femlandia was a bit grim for me in places, the idea of a women only colony was great although there were parts that made me question if she was GC or not or whether she might be more critical of GC theory. So glad to hear she is GC!
Women's rights and single sex spaces by their very nature are exclusionary! Absurd to suggest they should be inclusive of men!
Cannot let the women meet without any men present. Oh Lordy no. Spoilt entitled fuckers.
It's one thing for some women to feel pressurised into complimenting a man like this when they are in the room with you, for example the break room at work with other colleagues, because of social pressure/fear, but what I do not understand is women posting fawning comments online, where there is no such pressure to compliment/ be kind, the bloke isn't there intimidating you in the same room in this case, so why voluntarily fawn?! It blows my mind. I'm someone who doesn't give out compliments when don't mean it
so I just don't understand why these men get so much praise for wearing tights and a vintage dress?! I absolutely agree. I also hardly ever believe a compliment anymore because women are routinely telling men like this they look "stunning".It's one thing for some women to feel pressurised into complimenting a man like this when they are in the room with you, for example the break room at work with other colleagues, because of social pressure/fear, but what I do not understand is women posting fawning comments online, where there is no such pressure to compliment/ be kind, the bloke isn't there intimidating you in the same room in this case, so why voluntarily fawn?! It blows my mind. I'm someone who doesn't give out compliments when don't mean it
What an annoys me is seeing women of a more advanced age, who have gone through decades of bullshit, been passed over promotion at work in days gone by, have been catcalled, called hysterical, fobbed off by doctors, etc etc, voluntarily then telling a bloke in a frock that he looks fabulous and heaping lots of superfluous praise. I think we need to stop giving false compliments, because surely these women commenters are not being truthful there?! Surely not!
Come on women, we need to stop fawning. Stop inflating egos and giving permission to this nonsense ideology.
And they’re quick with the bitchy comments to other women when it suits them.It's one thing for some women to feel pressurised into complimenting a man like this when they are in the room with you, for example the break room at work with other colleagues, because of social pressure/fear, but what I do not understand is women posting fawning comments online, where there is no such pressure to compliment/ be kind, the bloke isn't there intimidating you in the same room in this case, so why voluntarily fawn?! It blows my mind. I'm someone who doesn't give out compliments when don't mean it
What an annoys me is seeing women of a more advanced age, who have gone through decades of bullshit, been passed over promotion at work in days gone by, have been catcalled, called hysterical, fobbed off by doctors, etc etc, voluntarily then telling a bloke in a frock that he looks fabulous and heaping lots of superfluous praise. I think we need to stop giving false compliments, because surely these women commenters are not being truthful there?! Surely not!
Come on women, we need to stop fawning. Stop inflating egos and giving permission to this nonsense ideology.
That photo gave me a right cackle. As @petitspois says, if that were a woman, she'd be getting all sorts of crappy comments. But because it's a man in a dress all he gets is "oh hun you look amazing xoxoxo wish I had your legs
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