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I think you could argue it's surprisingly apt. TheCrownless Send a noteboard - 13/11/2018 01:31:37 AM

Aran'gar (as Cannoli points out) isn't a transgender character in any deeper sense.

If anything their story arc is the process of in reverse. The character starts out "in the right body" and is then placed in one that they are completely uncomfortable with (to begin with).

The "punishment" in this case is the body/gender dysphoria that is the cause of many people to want to transition in the first place. I don't have especially great memory of Aran'gar and their thoughts about being dumped in a different body, so they might not be especially analogous to gender dysphoria (Cannoli, who undoubtedly has a better memory of the text than I do doesn't seem to think so) but that's certainly the more logical angle as far as I see it. Although given when it was written anything that is there is likely coincidental. If I was to hazard a guess I'd say it was more a exploration of RJ's kinks than anything else.

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This message last edited by TheCrownless on 13/11/2018 at 01:41:15 AM
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Aran'gar and the trans issue. - 13/11/2018 12:25:48 AM 844 Views
This is exactly why the knee-jerk response was so amusing. - 13/11/2018 01:18:28 AM 542 Views
I think you could argue it's surprisingly apt. - 13/11/2018 01:31:37 AM 576 Views
I don't know what's so hard to understand about this. You don't refer to people by 'it'. - 13/11/2018 08:09:34 AM 528 Views
People are refered to by "it" all the time.... - 13/11/2018 05:26:33 PM 532 Views
But remember, human fetuses aren't people. /s *NM* - 13/11/2018 05:42:00 PM 363 Views
Your second example rather proves my point, don't you think? - 13/11/2018 07:50:39 PM 532 Views
and those of us defending Cannoli maintain - 13/11/2018 07:59:08 PM 480 Views
I'm not really commenting on Cannoli's post.... - 13/11/2018 09:20:13 PM 509 Views
FWIW mine was concerning ambiguity - 13/11/2018 11:01:03 PM 542 Views
Okay, sure. - 13/11/2018 11:26:58 PM 554 Views
Interesting.... - 13/11/2018 11:36:43 PM 516 Views
Because it is just contempt - 13/11/2018 11:45:08 PM 669 Views
I think I mostly covered that above, but I can recap. - 14/11/2018 08:02:51 AM 535 Views
Who's on the phone? - 14/11/2018 01:53:14 AM 534 Views
Sure, I agree. - 14/11/2018 07:45:58 AM 538 Views
Aran'gar does not, and doesn't have to represent, trangender people for your usage to be wrong - 13/11/2018 03:21:42 PM 541 Views
Except that it isn't a person, it is a character in a book - 14/11/2018 02:57:12 PM 521 Views
So? - 14/11/2018 07:18:10 PM 521 Views
Re: So? - 17/11/2018 02:13:37 PM 500 Views
Upon reflection, I have edited the original post - 13/11/2018 08:02:17 PM 516 Views
Thank you. *NM* - 13/11/2018 11:31:41 PM 248 Views

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