5/23/2023 0 Comments The robots of dawn by isaac asimov![]() ![]() In The Robots of Dawn, the third entry in Asimov’s Robot series, I found something else. I was trying to play a part based on the adventures of the Sweet Valley Twins, but I could never get it exactly right. This stood in contrast to the way I consumed girl culture: by trying to absorb and mimic the attitudes of straight girls, which I understood to mean crushing on boys, waiting to be noticed by boys, and sort of chastely desiring a kiss or a dance but nothing more. But I knew I preferred old-fashioned books by men for men (or adolescent boys), and I read these as if I were a native rather than a visitor to their world. In my case, the world certainly viewed me as a girl, and having no knowledge of any alternatives, I accepted my girlness as an unalterable fact. ![]() One of the weirdest things about growing up transgender is that a trans person can be socialized simultaneously as both a boy and a girl. ![]() ![]() Up until that day in the library, everything I’d read about sex had been morally instructive and geared toward young girls.Īt that age, I had no concept of what a transgender man was. ![]()
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