Post #1236530
2026-03-28 12:13 UTC
@alberto_cottica @Tattie But that's just it, isn't it? I didn't try to imagine what it would be like to be a woman, and I think that's the wrong imagining for the purposes of this conversation.
I imagined what it would be like if I, suddenly and inexplicably, woke up in a female body. I was not a woman, and did not imagine myself as such. I didn't even "imagine myself as trans". I imagined what would happen if I just woke up in a female body, and the need to transition arose out of that situation all on its own.
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@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green 2026-03-28 12:18
@Azuaron @Tattie yes, indeed. I was agreeing with you, and gesturing towards SF as a mind-opener of some sort.The protagonist of "Call me Joe" suffers from what we would call today body disphoria. Anderson, in 1957, emphatizes with him.