lian @slooploon@computerfairi.es

@Jsuttonmorse tysm!

@cardboard@tiny.tilde.website yeah i have no problem with white cis men being slammed. they still are the most privileged group on this planet by far. literature doesn't happen in a vacuum.

and like i said, it's about probability. yes, i've fallen on my face with books written by white women, or by black women, and got triggered badly. but it's some orders of magnitude less likely & when it happens, usually less extreme.

@cardboard@tiny.tilde.website so i would read stuff written by a cis man if i knew for sure he had sensitivity readers, or was at least actively working to reduce his shit. otherwise the risk is too high of accidentally running into triggers & other stuff that makes me uncomfortable

@Tablesaw thank you!

@Jsuttonmorse looong

@cardboard@tiny.tilde.website mainly because most cis men, especially white cis men, reproduce much discriminatory bullshit unknowingly if they don't actively & constantly check their privilege, and they rarely do. so the chance that a book that COULD be good is tainted by this shit is too damn high, like e.g. the expanse.

@numimyon yeah right??

@dani_p thank you!!

oh god i had a nightmare
in which, to change your gender on ebay, you had to provide a legal certificate of gender change

@lertsenem yes i watch the show with much enthusiasm. the show is so much better, it leaves out the bullshit and add more depth to the characters too

@somethingeloquent@octodon.social i'm trying to get myself back to reading, after my burnout it's gotten so hard to read at all. so i need something that will not put me off, so i have more reason to keep going

@lertsenem yeah i'm reading the 1st one atm, and it is exactly why i added the "not a white man" criterion. it's like... he tried, but it's still frequently misogynist and infuriating

@somethingeloquent@octodon.social i read that halfway but it made me feel so shitty because of the unchallenged cissexism in the story :((((

@cwebber yes i am ok with "unknown science" allowing for so-far impossible things, i just need it to be done in a way that does not make me want to bang my head against the wall. thank you!!!

@somethingeloquent@octodon.social thank you!

@halcy no i have no idea what that is

@WelshPixie thanks, but those requirements are really hard requirements for me :(