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Ancillary Justice, probably unpopular take, gender, identity 

So I had to put this book down a while ago, and I was vaguely reminded of it today. I... don't exactly get why people were excited about it? Maybe it gets better further in?

The flagrant misgendering by the protag. Who herself is in the body of a brain-wiped slave/prisoner of war?.... It really trips some shitty trans issue feels. And we're supposed to LIKE HER?

Ancillary Justice, probably unpopular take, gender, identity 

like I get it, she's an AI made under a language that doesn't have gendered pronouns. But like... THEY EXISTS IN ENGLISH ITS A WORD WE HAVE FOR THAT.

Although upside to the book, there's discussion in another language where the protag mentions gendered language. The english text was not gendered. That's cute right there but that's like the only good thing I can say about the book?

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