(November 20, 2024 at 1:30 am)Silver Wrote: Maybe I'm wrong, but I was getting the impression the comparison was in how trans people are as misunderstood as the monster was in the book.
That could well be. I mean, even some like myself, while sympathetic to trans rights and socialization, still don't understand what it means to be trans ... or monster. But "monster" as a term is less about misunderstanding and more about demonization, the way I read it.
My son's mom wanted to watch a horror movie one night, so I went and rented The Elephant Man. The horror was not in what Joseph Merrick did to others, it was what they did to him. Misunderstanding someone so much that you traumatize them is a horror too, and no less horrific than a monster cut loose on the world.
Whose horror is it?
