A sci-fi writer got meta about gender. The internet responded by ruining her life.
Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" drew the ire of the internet. A year later, she’s still picking through the wreckage.
Hasnain says:
This is the first I’m hearing of this story, and… wow. Interesting read on internet mobs, sci-fi, transphobia, and the human experience. And a terrible situation at heart.
“I believe the story’s detractors were hurt by the title or some of the content or the very idea of the story. I believe they truly feel that trans stories should only be written by trans people and that Fall should have had to out herself before publishing. I believe they believe — still — that they did the right thing.
They still destroyed a woman’s life.”
Posted on 2021-07-01T05:36:22+0000