Article by Lauren Black

[CeriBlack]

My wife wrote a thing and I'm so freaking proud of her! It has the phrase "porn addled robot people" in it, lol, and also a bit about me, and about her dysphoria.

Enjoy!

lesbianandgaynews.com/2021/06/lauren-black-gloves-off-im-going-to-talk-about-how-dysphoria-plus-the-gingerbread-model-plus-pornography-leads-to-the-creation-of-who-i-call-porn-addled-robot-people/

Thanks for posting - very interesting

Thank your wife for this powerful writing

👏👏👏

She sounds brave and thoughtful

Wonderfully moving-powerful words

Thank you for sharing that, Ceri. Lauren sounds a brave and resilient woman.

Fab! Really well written

Thanks Ceri. It is wonderful to get these updates from you.

And thanks Lauren for continuing to keep the conversation going!!

Particularly for standing up for the young people with statements like this about the Gingerbread model.

It’s offensive, two dimensional, entirely lacking in any depth or understanding. I could laugh at it, if I wasn’t so furious about what this cheerful, lying, cartoonified oversimplification is doing to the brains of the (mostly gay) young people it harms.

Brava! for you both!

This is a wonderful, powerful piece of writing!

That is a really wonderful, powerful piece of writing. I'm not surprised you're proud of her! I hope lots and lots of people read it.

What a powerful piece of writing. Bravo.

I think you posted a while ago with another piece she'd written - I remember it being a really good piece then too!

Wow. This is so powerful and so beautiful.

I hope so many young women get to read this piece. Huge love to you both x

This is brilliant.

I loved this, thank you for posting the link. I have heard dysphoric individuals refer to their bodies as a 'meat sack' and I have found it so horrific that they could be so dissociated and hate themselves so much.

I was especially moved by this section of the article:
You can’t pull these pieces of me apart and separate them from their origins, as if I were made of component parts, like a robot, an android. I am made of my body, my history, my way of being in the world. I am a whole, integrated, authentic human, not a bunch of robotics components. Not a disparate collection of body parts and identities, a customisable avatar. It’s offensive to my sensibilities to suggest it

Beautiful piece of writing.

Nice one. Great piece of writing. I find the description of dysphoria fascinating though I can completely understand how challenging it must have been to write.

A wonderful piece thank you Lauren and thanks Ceri for sharing.

I've just read this elsewhere and came to post it immediately!

So much pain, I can completely understand where her dysphoria comes from from her description, it must be hard to describe it so honestly. ❤️

Just wanted to pop in and say how powerful and beautifully written this piece was! to Lauren and Ceri

Amazing article, so well written and must have taken a lot to write it. Thank you Lauren and Ceri
I hope it is as widely read as it deserves to be

Thanks for this - I only came across it today and started another thread saying how good it is.

An insightful,well written and moving article, thank you for sharing

Brilliant. Superb writing!

I absolutely love this. So powerful and touching. NI based too, yay! X