For anybody interested in further exploring the degeneracy of Maia Kobabe's
Gender Queer: A Memoir, here's the PDF.
EDIT: Definitely not a fetish.
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Not a fetish guys.
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Thank you for the PDF.
Before I read it, I thought that having visible dicks meant yeah, shouldn't be in school libraries.
Now I'm in less agreement about the single panel of strap-on (and a panel of a Greek vase with pedo dick) as a reason to keep it out of schools, and more with the assorted unhip people who think it's a bad influence for its themes.
This book is just a huge collection of red flags, and it couldn't be more so if it were self-parody. It's really well-reported as a case study, but as a memoir it needs to wait ten years or so to see how she settles out.
She was raised by hippies and homeschooled, keeps talking about how she misses social cues and is very anxious, has an all-fujoshi friend group and starts writing multi-chapter boyband RPF in grad school (?).
She talks about how someone had to tell her guidance counselor in high school to tell her to wear deodorant, which really hurts her argument that not shaving her legs at the same time as her classmates meant she's not a woman. Ma'am, you're not a troon, you're clearly some kind of sperg.
She's anxious and miserable about everything, even after having her gender revelation; it's pretty obvious that there's something else going on and it's getting the nonbinary band-aid slapped over it. Is the problem her? No, no, it's the rest of society, and the only way she can be happy or not crying all the time is if everyone else on the planet agrees to coddle her.
I could see teaching this book in school, with a lot of footnotes and rebuttals. Not in current year, though. Maybe one of the gendercritical sites could work on a list of annotations/"how to talk to your child about" article.
Having a "would I have been thus" moment, as a woman who was an awkward, nerdy kid but 10-15 years earlier. Thank goodness.