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Apr. 15th, 2022 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukeI read Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters and my opinion on it was that this book was not written for me
I'm glad other people enjoyed it but I found the characters so different that I didn't really relate to them. I was supposed to feel empathy for them and for the most part I didn't. The sexual scenes were so far from how I've experienced the world that I couldn't comprehend the characters actions because of it.
It was set in NYC and it was extremely NYC and it talked about community and people in ways that I haven't experienced and I found to be really derisive. Maybe those communities are really like that, I have no idea. And some of it was dealing with shame but the characters didn't learn to deal with that shame.
I don't know.
It was fine but I think it was written for a very different audience than me and all of the experiences were so different and framed in ways I didn't understand so it didn't really work for me.
I'm glad other people enjoyed it but I found the characters so different that I didn't really relate to them. I was supposed to feel empathy for them and for the most part I didn't. The sexual scenes were so far from how I've experienced the world that I couldn't comprehend the characters actions because of it.
It was set in NYC and it was extremely NYC and it talked about community and people in ways that I haven't experienced and I found to be really derisive. Maybe those communities are really like that, I have no idea. And some of it was dealing with shame but the characters didn't learn to deal with that shame.
I don't know.
It was fine but I think it was written for a very different audience than me and all of the experiences were so different and framed in ways I didn't understand so it didn't really work for me.
