She starts out in this phase as a very confident assertive woman, powerful and impressive. Then, suddenly, she loses her over-blown confidence in an instant and is cast into doubts, just like what can happen in real life. It's what can happen when a person ventures into an endeavor that can shift reality to such a radical extent. The familiar is stripped away leaving uncertainty until new habits can be formed. -CLake
Very true. I guess it actually makes sense, that any bold/assertive/confident attempt to take control of things for the first time will be followed by a period of doubt. Like you're expanding out into new territory, and then you have to carefully explore that territory and get it under control before considering your next move. Does that make sense? (No is an entirely valid answer).
Honestly... this looked like an interesting future situation and then it turned out it was a feminisation universe in the first place. meh.
I think this would have been better if it was just a future family situation.
And seriously? I'm sorry I get to have a say in my life. Things would be better if mom just did an authoritarian decision? Wtf?
This feels like you had a story, wrote it. And then you still had images left you wanted to use.
And then there's the usual female supremacist stuff that's trying to find superiority in the disadvantages of female biology. Honestly, pride in period pains and birth problems is about as stupid as being proud about testosterone overdose induced suicidal behavior. "Oh I went through male puberty. I even drove 150 km/h drunk at night!" Ain't being male superior!
Any halfway sane person with access to the kind of technology that allows easy sex changes would modify their body in a way that makes births easier and stops periods when you don't want to have children.
I think pointlessly pushing TG tropes at the end ruined this for me. The first part had a mother that decided life altering shit of their kid over her husband's head. Obviously he'd be pissed about this and obviously it would make the kid feel uncomfortable.
This part began with the kid deciding to tell her parents to STFU and let herself decide. But then the tropy stuff started to happen. Why?
Well, first up, sorry you didn't like it. In this case, though, I can assure you that it wasn't that I had a set of unused images that needed used up. It was intended to be a TG universe all the way through, but it should have been made clear from the start, yeah. But I'd argue that any situation where one parent is encouraging a child to change sex and the other trying to get them to stay is going to be pretty far removed from our universe... The female supremacist stuff is silly, but no more silly than the everyday sexism women (still, though less so nowadays) have to put up with in our world. And you're right, wishing that her mom made an authoritarian decision is utterly stupid. It's exactly the kind of stupid, context-void thing that people say when they're engaging in self pity. We probably shouldn't take her too seriously, or judge her for saying something so dumb...
She starts out in this phase as a very confident assertive woman, powerful and impressive. Then, suddenly, she loses her over-blown confidence in an instant and is cast into doubts, just like what can happen in real life. It's what can happen when a person ventures into an endeavor that can shift reality to such a radical extent. The familiar is stripped away leaving uncertainty until new habits can be formed.
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Very true. I guess it actually makes sense, that any bold/assertive/confident attempt to take control of things for the first time will be followed by a period of doubt. Like you're expanding out into new territory, and then you have to carefully explore that territory and get it under control before considering your next move.
ReplyDeleteDoes that make sense? (No is an entirely valid answer).
Absolutely, Rachel dear.
ReplyDeleteHonestly... this looked like an interesting future situation and then it turned out it was a feminisation universe in the first place. meh.
ReplyDeleteI think this would have been better if it was just a future family situation.
And seriously? I'm sorry I get to have a say in my life. Things would be better if mom just did an authoritarian decision? Wtf?
This feels like you had a story, wrote it. And then you still had images left you wanted to use.
And then there's the usual female supremacist stuff that's trying to find superiority in the disadvantages of female biology.
Honestly, pride in period pains and birth problems is about as stupid as being proud about testosterone overdose induced suicidal behavior. "Oh I went through male puberty. I even drove 150 km/h drunk at night!" Ain't being male superior!
Any halfway sane person with access to the kind of technology that allows easy sex changes would modify their body in a way that makes births easier and stops periods when you don't want to have children.
I think pointlessly pushing TG tropes at the end ruined this for me. The first part had a mother that decided life altering shit of their kid over her husband's head. Obviously he'd be pissed about this and obviously it would make the kid feel uncomfortable.
This part began with the kid deciding to tell her parents to STFU and let herself decide. But then the tropy stuff started to happen. Why?
Well, first up, sorry you didn't like it. In this case, though, I can assure you that it wasn't that I had a set of unused images that needed used up. It was intended to be a TG universe all the way through, but it should have been made clear from the start, yeah. But I'd argue that any situation where one parent is encouraging a child to change sex and the other trying to get them to stay is going to be pretty far removed from our universe...
ReplyDeleteThe female supremacist stuff is silly, but no more silly than the everyday sexism women (still, though less so nowadays) have to put up with in our world.
And you're right, wishing that her mom made an authoritarian decision is utterly stupid. It's exactly the kind of stupid, context-void thing that people say when they're engaging in self pity. We probably shouldn't take her too seriously, or judge her for saying something so dumb...