Trans-Atlanticism Part 2 feat. Kill James Bond

y'all didn't say the thing

The fact that it just turns into Garth Mernghi has me in stiches. "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards."

Abigail's line read at the end - legitimatley disorientating

The most interesting thing here that the pod doesn't touch on is that in this satire of the trans rights movement there literally are no trans people - the flat earthers aren't trans, they're just politically conscious millennials with a certain opinion. That's all that it is to this guy - the whole thing is just a battle of two opposing opinions that have basically no consequences or movement attached to them, and trans people just... don't exist to him. Not even in the gross way typical terfs see trans people as dangerous, he *literally didn't consider trans people relevant enough to include in his satire of the trans rights movement.* Perhaps it's part of coming to this as a gay man rather than a woman who wants to tie her anxieties back to feminist theory? Either way it's incredibly telling.

Abi's line at the very end completely destroyed me

Tried to change my gender at work while listening. Am still mostly cis so I'll just have to keep practicing.

You just know that Simon Edge has been harbouring rage about Jan Morris transitioning since 1964.

This book has confirmed my bias that as well as being very nasty and bigoted terfs are really boring people. So dull. I don't know if this is also supposed to riff on 'the map is not the territory' but that doesn't work either.

I still can't get my head the initial premise of "being trans is like being a cartographer". Like, what? What? The writer might as well say "being into LARPing is like travelling on horse back in Leon's city centre on a Tuesday in 1973". It's completely nonsensical and doesn't even work as a metaphore.

and l was just thinking that l had too many brain cells in my head...

The dedication to spelling absolutely everything out in that ending is amazing. Treating your audience with the same level of respect as the audience for Dora the Explorer in a book entirely about the secret billionaire plot to ruin your Twitter menchies.

OK I'll bite, what's a 'gender'?

As an Australian uncritical support for banning Australia

The book was about gender??? Man, I was way off.

I deeply appreciate Abi gently pulling the conversation to serious discussion of what the book says about the movement that birthed it and being repeatedly sabotaged by the Trashfuture Shitposting Corps

Abbey’s Christopher Columbus with bangs didn’t get the respect it was due.

It me - I'm the particularly abstruse trans person. Sorry. My degree in liberal ideology isn't good for much else. Aside from its excellent service as a paperweight.

You say "axe-to-grind satire", they say "screw Flanders, screw Flanders, screw Flanders"

when Abby said "gonna have to change my voice back to the way it was... detransitionnnnn NOW" i was having flashbacks to that KJB episode i was nearly sure she was gonna conjure something up at "now"

man, before even listening to the episode the incoherency of this book's attempt at allegory is driving me insane

after hearing the bit with the admiral wanting to defend the island people, i realised a key part of understanding this book is PROBABLY that it wants to be a bit like the Cloud Atlas novel

Catgirl Thatcher Moggie Thatcher

I can't believe we get to listen to the only guy who has ever read a book for the low low price of five American dollars