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Novel by Trans Woman author features death of JK Rowling, removal of womb from Black Woman

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Misstache · 18/04/2022 01:53

mobile.twitter.com/Slatzism/status/1515838080145666058?cxt=HHwWlMC9gfysq4kqAAAA

How is this ok? Enslaved Black women were actually subjected to no-anaesthesia hysterectomies, something it took years for the medical establishment to acknowledge, and longer to remove the statue of the w fire male doctor who tortured these women, but it’s ok to put that in a book? It’s ok to fantasize about killing actual women? So if we say “I’m not sure people who have been through male puberty should compete in Women’s categories in sports that’s “literal Genocide,” but a whole novel sadistically murdering and raping women is fine and progressive and can be sold?

This actually makes me sick.

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LittleWhingingWoman · 18/04/2022 11:20

Sex slaves out of them?
Listen Incel, women don't fantasise about men who want to kill women. Do you fucking get it?

I do hope JKR's legal team get hold of this. It's pure hate.

Thelnebriati · 18/04/2022 11:13

''And today's "gender critical" feminists, as gender theorist Judith Butler has written, are buying into fascism.''
I look forwards to Judith Butler or any of her acolytes actually providing evidence for that claim.

Meanwhile there has been a sudden rise of SM posts dehaumanising women, and now Amazon have stocked this book. There are plenty of people who have publically signalled that they are prepared to stand aside, turn a blind eye, or join in, if harm is caused to women.

I'd like to remind you of the 5 steps to tyranny;
kottke.org/16/11/five-steps-to-tyranny

1 - “us” and “them” (prejudice and the formation of a dominant group)
2 - obey orders (the tendency to follow orders, especially from those with authority)
3 - do “them” harm (obeying an authority who commands actions against our conscience)
4 - “stand up” or “stand by” (standing by as harm occurs)
5 - exterminate (the elimination of the “other”)

Artichokeleaves · 18/04/2022 11:10

Helpful optics indeed. Getting increasingly hard to deny the whole woman-hating, unhinged thing really, in the face of ever mounting evidence.

LizzieSiddal · 18/04/2022 10:11

Vile and sickening. What a surprise.

FrancescaContini · 18/04/2022 10:09

Good grief

Faffertea · 18/04/2022 10:05

Once again, evidence of that thing we’re not allowed to mention.

nauticant · 18/04/2022 08:55

It has been positively reviewed at the NPR (the closest to the BBC) in the US. By a trans man.

text.npr.org/1086399119

It gives a detailed summary of the book, and towards the end the reveiwer comments:

And today's "gender critical" feminists, as gender theorist Judith Butler has written, are buying into fascism.

If you do an image search on the author you will be very very unsurprised.

Cuck00soup · 18/04/2022 08:52

Not going to click the link because I don’t want to contribute to any rise in listings but this kind of shit shows, once again, how much men hate women. Not just the author, it’s every step of the publishing and selling process.

Mummyoflittledragon · 18/04/2022 08:51

The 72% 5* reviews on Amazon suggest a lot of people are buying and reading it unfortunately.

MoltenLasagne · 18/04/2022 08:37

Cailleach1 thank you for clarifying - I did think it sounded negative to start so I was confused.

Theunamedcat · 18/04/2022 08:04

Wow

Cailleach1 · 18/04/2022 07:51

@MoltenLasagne

What does review bombing mean?
I think technically it usually means a negative pile on for purposes other than the literary merit of the book. I think in this case that it is akin to 'love bombing'; as I think in this case it was a positive reviewing of the book for purposes other than the literary merit of the book.
Rightsraptor · 18/04/2022 07:44

Some reiews are 10 months old, so it's been out a while. And there are some unfavourable reviews. I don't think all is lost because this awful-sounding book it out there. Far too many books are published IMHO and this is one of them, no doubt.

MoltenLasagne · 18/04/2022 07:39

What does review bombing mean?

Cailleach1 · 18/04/2022 07:21

If that is the book, one of the reviews says that it was 'review bombed before it's release. Also it appears some have said it is great because it is about trans people or was written by a trans person.

Igmum · 18/04/2022 06:53

Utterly vile. How the hell was this published? Why is it being sold? It's also drivel. I'm reassured by the Twitter comments which are almost all negative but OMG this is awful.

TheGreatATuin · 18/04/2022 06:52

It's this one.
www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53329296-manhunt

TheGreatATuin · 18/04/2022 06:50

The extraordinary and worrying thing is that this wasn't self-published. It appears to have been published by Tor which is a decent size and long standing publisher.
Some all the commissioning editors, copy editors and proof readers etc read this book that graphically illustrates women being horrifically raped, tortured and murdered and presumably no one said, "Um, should we really be publishing this?".
It's really quite extraordinary how the combination of 'trans' and it being women who are subjected to it somehow makes it okay.
If you remove the trans and sex and gender aspects, then what you have is a book in which white people rape, murder and torture black people, but because its got 'gender' pasted over it, somehow that's now invisible.
I'm so fed up with this shit. I really am.

DifficultBloodyWoman · 18/04/2022 06:39

So apparently not every author requires a sensitivity reader.

FFS!

Xiaoxiong · 18/04/2022 06:36

I can't see the tweet as apparently the content is so grim it's been hidden by Twitter for my protection Confused what's the book?

TheCurrywurstPrion · 18/04/2022 06:31

@Kanaloa

Gross. Only upvote is that I can’t imagine anyone will buy it - I imagine it’s total trash. Worrying what you can get away with though. I hope it gets brought to as many people’s attention as possible. I’m not a fan of ‘torture horror’ at the best of times and often I think (even stuff like Hostel etc) it’s not good.
It’s got a high star rating, with many five star reviews from verified purchases on Amazon. Obviously you can organise that if you have a big enough network, but anyone looking at it would probably conclude it’s going to do well, and it might well be that it wasn’t organised at all, but is genuinely popular.
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LK1972 · 18/04/2022 04:01

@Absurdle

make sex slaves out of the transwomen

Wow. There’s a lot to be said but to avoid deletion I will restrain myself to AHAHAHAHAHA.

OMG… I just saw the author photo.

HAAAAAAA

They do hope don't they, yuck
Absurdle · 18/04/2022 03:47

make sex slaves out of the transwomen

Wow. There’s a lot to be said but to avoid deletion I will restrain myself to AHAHAHAHAHA.

OMG… I just saw the author photo.

HAAAAAAA

Misstache · 18/04/2022 02:33

And given 2/3rds of that family was black it seems like this writer is also a vicious racist. Where’s all the TRAs with BLM in their profiles now?

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