Thread by @Serena_Partrick

Everything changes about these stories once you know about autogynephilia and its patterns.

Exhibitionism, post-surgery exceptionalism, denial of women's whole humanity.

Sexism rebranded as feminism.

It's just so hard for him, especially buying all those new clothes and 'classy heels'.

Stealing his mother's stockings rebranded as proof of "womanhood".

High stakes boundary violations.

The PR job paraphilic men have done on themselves is really beyond compare.

He was always a better woman than her.

They share a bed, they don't have sex, he's still attracted to women, she won't (thank God) pretend she's a lesbian, they talk about an open marriage but the writing suggests it be may only him who pursues this, & all her suffering is as nothing next to his Hero's Journey.

"She may be, however, the very woman for the job"

Do transmaidens like Louise Gannon feel relief at being able to hand over the fight for women's equality to men?

Article from 2022: archive.ph/pt8XN

The quote actually ends "to ring real changes", which even further insults women imo. Like the changes won by women before were paltry but now here's a man to do a proper job of it.

I need to come up with a name for the phenomenon where you're more likely to make a typo or obvious error towards the end of whatever it is you're composing, I notice it all the time. Maybe 'digital age attention drift', there's always something calling and as you reach the end it becomes harder to stop yourself mentally jumping to the next thing.