Not even that. That's still the patriarchal "what women should want" sexualization of men, which still presents the man as dominant and "in control". When men are presented as affectless meat puppets, then these people will have something to complain about.

Yeah, but da Vinci was totally gaaaaay.

We're all insecure narcissists. That's why there's so much prejudice.

But that's self-contained, isn't it? Trans just means that you don't identity with the sex and gender you were assigned at birth. We don't need to reinforce that means she used to be (and unfortunately to some still is) a man.

South Korea did it, I believe. Didn't change things much.

What will this accomplish besides some empty idea of justice? Courts are supposed to above all prevent crime, with punishment only a means to that end.

I don't think it's anti-feminist to ask men to defend us. We're asking everybody to help defend—men just have the most power to do it currently. And it's not as if we're not doing all we can to defend ourselves.

It wouldn't be more difficult to tell it because it's an irrelevant detail. It doesn't change the meat of the story.

But her gender identification is not a relevant detail to her criminal record. She wasn't arrested for being cis or trans or male or female. It's an extraneous detail.

Because they don't learn.

I'm going streaking in Times Square if the draft is ever reinstated.

The only thing atheists have to believe in is falsifiability.

Evidence is falsifiable.

Slightly off topic, but the images you use for your literary articles are always really darn cool, Charlie.

I don't think it really matters whether it's intentional. Symbolism is organic—it needs to be discovered and its purpose argued.

I've never heard of "Ghost in the Shell"—I'll have to check it out sometime.

Science without morality is easily corrupted by human nature.

"...arguing that kids really needed to have their race "confirmed" when they were young so that they could grow up to be "confident about their identity."

I missed these hard science articles, Alasdair.

Thanks and welcome! I really enjoyed the commentary and even enjoyed the fic—it's fun to get inside another person's mind. I have a few reservations about mocking consenting fetishes, which the fetishes in this fic appear to be. I don't think there's anything creepy or wrong about satisfying a necrophilia fetish in…