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YA FictionGC books for preteens/YA?
My kids are avid readers, but their current favorite author is Rick Riordan, and since they’ve read his most recent books, they’ve replaced all pronouns with “they,” and it’s proving to be an intractable habit.
I am fairly sure those books are why, because their other books don’t seem to have gender issues, and although I haven’t read anything but the first Percy Jackson book, I’ve flipped through several of Riordan’s books and the ones he “sponsors,” and found multiple instances of pronoun discussions. We homeschool and while I know several trans kids, they don’t know those kids themselves, so I think it’s the books, or possibly a TV show. I asked them why they started this and they couldn’t tell me. And we definitely have discussed grammar.
I won’t censor my kids’ books, but I’d like to offer them alternatives that can counter this ideology. I know publishing is mostly captured, but I would welcome suggestions for older books about GNC kids, too, or basically anything that might work to stretch their minds.
I suppose that is one good way of becoming self-aware--actually look at yourself in the mirror without filters!
When the Snapchat/Insta/whatever social-media-network filter is more validating and fulfilling than the thing that reflects one's own image back at oneself...
We're fucked.
Grease? Where do you even get grease in the bathroom? Is he living in a kitchen ventilation hood?
And some of these people want to give themselves a surgical womb in an area that is sweaty, exposed to urine and fecal matter, and easily infected? It blows my mind.
Eww. How gross do you have to be to let your mirror build up with so much grime that you can’t even see yourself in it.
That is what I was thinking too. I couldn't cover my mirror with a layer of grass even if I did it on purpose. This man hasn't been cleaning his mirror since he'd purchased it 9 years ago.
Good. I hope it was absolutely traumatic, maybe even life altering. Maybe he’d actually come back to reality but that’s hoping too much.
Old and learned enough to control their own gender. Not old or learned enough to clean their homes. Classic tale.
And mentally well enough. Totally incapacitated by depression, can't clean, can't shower, but IS totally competent to handle post-surgery care.
I've had some serious battles with depression over my life, but I've never had my mirror become covered in grime like that before.
Even at it's worst state of filth, the middle to top of my mirror (the part where you can actually see your face) has never been so grimy. Like, it's usually just the bottom of the mirror that gets gross. Unless this TIM can barely see over the sink