Are there other sex workers in the series (of any gender)? How are women portrayed generally? I don't particularly like Melville's style of writing, so I haven't read these....
The point about the image of trans women as (exclusively) commodities is really interesting when applied to the real world. Hmm. I need to think about that.
they have a magical surgical technology called Remaking, which is much more advanced than anything we have, and is capable not only of organ transplants, etc., but can blend two different species together, as well as blend human and machine
And that sounds ideal for trans men, but of course we don't exist.
Though now I kind of want to write a dystopian spec fic story with downtrodden female-to-make sex worker living in squalid and marginal conditions because there's a market of women who have a fetish for sex with Feminist Decaf Men....
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Date: 2009-05-08 12:00 pm (UTC)The point about the image of trans women as (exclusively) commodities is really interesting when applied to the real world. Hmm. I need to think about that.
they have a magical surgical technology called Remaking, which is much more advanced than anything we have, and is capable not only of organ transplants, etc., but can blend two different species together, as well as blend human and machine
And that sounds ideal for trans men, but of course we don't exist.
Though now I kind of want to write a dystopian spec fic story with downtrodden female-to-make sex worker living in squalid and marginal conditions because there's a market of women who have a fetish for sex with Feminist Decaf Men....