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There have been a couple of times now that I've been curious about an author's gender and it hasn't been apparent from their name and I've looked them up and found out that they were neutrois or androgyne or whatever. And maybe it's creepy to be happy about other people's genders (because why the fuck am I having an opinion about other people's genders) but it always makes me happy, like, here we are living in the future, I remember when non-binary gender identities were something I had only heard of in science fiction stories and now there are real live people like that. Which makes them sound like curiosities, but I mean more like, there are real live people who *made it out*. Here in the future I have a device in my pocket that can browse the internet and make video calls and there are real live people who have gotten their heads out from this crushing ubiquitous system. I guess I'm picturing something like the end of THX-1138 when he makes it to the top of the shaft and we see that glorious giant sun and there's a Bach chorale and it's not like we think there's any hope of him changing the system but, like, he sees that sun.

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