X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fthere-should-be-a-closetspace-lease-bound-crossover-fic.md;fp=content%2Fdrafts%2Fthere-should-be-a-closetspace-lease-bound-crossover-fic.md;h=2989f4cb61aea8c95795bf9302ffdf9aaac2cbf9;hp=53d105481a1daf80ef58ddd5bd76ef44f6a27f4f;hb=319694f4f2526657b0302938fde657980ef68c31;hpb=53a55d0d5d40aadf37a4eaf2ac604fc8fcf385f4 diff --git a/content/drafts/there-should-be-a-closetspace-lease-bound-crossover-fic.md b/content/drafts/there-should-be-a-closetspace-lease-bound-crossover-fic.md index 53d1054..2989f4c 100644 --- a/content/drafts/there-should-be-a-closetspace-lease-bound-crossover-fic.md +++ b/content/drafts/there-should-be-a-closetspace-lease-bound-crossover-fic.md @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ _Lease Bound_ is actively updating. I'm really looking forward to the brewing id ----- -There are a lot of obvious and striking parallels betwen these two slice-of-life webcomics about unexpected sexual-minority roommmates keeping secrets from each other—even the titles match (two words, the first alluding to the roommate-drama setting, Closet/Lease, Space/Bound). I like both of them, and I think it's sad that the natural fan demographic of each probably mostly hates the other's guts. Gender-critical lesbians aren't going look sympathetically on the protagonists of _Closetspace_, and trans women aren't going to read _Lease Bound_, which portrays them as predatory bullies. The conflict is understandable, but the magnitude of it seems ... _unnecessary_; I think a _smarter_ world would be able to compile all the relevant facts and broker some sort of Pareto-efficient compromise that gets everyone _most_ of what they want. +There are a lot of obvious and striking parallels betwen these two slice-of-life webcomics about unexpected sexual-minority roommmates keeping secrets from each other—even the titles match (two words, with the first alluding to the roommate-drama setting, Closet/Lease, Space/Bound). I like both of them, and I think it's sad that the natural fan demographic of each probably mostly hates the other's guts. Gender-critical lesbians aren't going look sympathetically on the protagonists of _Closetspace_, and trans women aren't going to read _Lease Bound_, which portrays them as predatory bullies. The conflict is understandable, but the magnitude of it seems ... _unnecessary_; I think a _smarter_ world would be able to compile all the relevant facts and broker some sort of Pareto-efficient compromise that gets everyone _most_ of what they want. Carrie has a compelling interest in being able to modify her body and social presentation without being socially punished for it: though humans [can't actually change sex with currently-existing technology](/2021/May/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems/#changing-sex-is-hard), one could at least be permitted to try to approximate it.