You know what's so funny?
I read the twilight saga in middle school, and when it got to the baby plot, naive unexperienced child that I was, I thought it was very pro-choice of Bella to know all the risks of her pregnancy and still go though with it in the face of opposition. I was like, "Yeah, that's what pro-choice is, your choice, and this is a pregnancy plot. Of course, she'd choose the baby?? That's just what people do in pregnancy plots??"
Like, it did not at all occure to me steph was virtue signaling that keeping the baby in the face of your own death was the "proper or correct" thing to do, just that that was the plot of the story she was writing, and I knew Balla had plot armor so there was no real risk,,,
In the same vein, reading the Host, I thought it was cool that Wanda knew she was a woman, even as a sexless worm. Like I always though it was very, I don't know, just, "I've tried everything in eight different planets and know what my gender orientation is, even if that might in some definition be cisgender. And I'm only bringing it up cause we're having an argument, and you're all being weird about it." of Wanda to have been to eight planets, that you can't tell me all had proper equivalent to human male and female- especially when the Dolphin planet had three sexes and polyamory- and always have a preference for a certain type of gender orientation known for herself.
Like as an adult, I get Balla was being a pro-life mouth piece even though that girl totally would have driven her friends to seattle for a secret abortion in the middle of the night no questions asked until steph needed it be her, and Wanda was probably being,,,, well she's probably Cis in the oddest of definitions, but you can't tell me Wanda would ever be transphobic. Sorry steph, but when you creat a world of sexless worms who can express gender-oriented preferences, and still be put it in whatever body their healers have avalable, and it's a perfect utopia,,,, you can't tell me there wasn't hella trans souls wandering around on every planet. Or you know, non-binary souls who have never understood gender on a single planet they've ever been to.
Or souls who's host were trans/transitioning, and just went with it.
But it's just so funny I managed to read her conservative propaganda and go. "Yeah yeah yeah, pro-choice and freedom of gender expression, ofc ofc" for yeeeaaaars
