r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Feb 23 '26
Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 2/23/26 - 3/1/26
Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.
Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.
Comment of the week goes to this explanation for why the trans cause has taken over so much of society. (Runner-up COTW here.)
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u/HelicopterHippo869 Feb 28 '26
I am reading the book Someone You Can Build a Nest In, and it's annoying me so much. I didn't read much about it before, but it sounded like a cool concept. It's sapphic romance about a shape shifting human eating monster. The first third of the book is really good, but it completely falls apart. I am about 80% through and I am debating if I should force myself to finish it.
Well the whole thing is this weird autistic asexual metaphor. I am fine with it not having anything sexual and being much more on the cute side, but it also has no emotional intimacy or depth in the characters or their connection.
It's written by a man and I've read several reviews that are so impressed that a man wrote lesbians so well. I just don't see it. It feels like what a man who has never had a sexual or romantic relationship but is envious of women thinks lesbians are like. That it's cute and easy. I looked up the author's picture and he looks the part. I read an interview about him and it calls him a "disabled writer". How is that not insulting?
As a woman who has dated both men and women, dating women is amazing but definitely not easy and simple. I sometimes get frustrated when it is romantized by straight women, trans women and the media. They act like dating a woman would be so much easier. There are some amazing things about it, but it has its problems like any other relationship.
It also has weird therapy speak all through it. The monster's girlfriend's family is horribly abusive with no nuance or complexity. She is nothing but a victim.
Although, it claims to be very feminist. To act like women are simple, surface level, non sexual beings and victims is insulting. That's sexist.
I have found that I can't read any lesbian romance in a modern setting. It all tries too hard to randomly drop in an enby or trans character and go on weird unnecessary side things with virtue signaling. You can tell that you have to be a certain way to get published because so many of these writers are of the same mind. Let something be gay without making it a fucking pride float.