The usual cisgender lens
News from the world of film-making:
Lilly Wachowski, co-director of The Matrix and trans filmmaker, is set to adapt Manhunt, a 2022 dystopian horror novel by Gretchen Felker-Martin.
Trans filmmaker – so not a real filmmaker then?
What the Star Observer (“Star” meaning sleb, I take it) means of course is that Wachowski is a man pretending to be a woman, aka a trans woman. Funny how it carefully doesn’t put it that way. Why not? When that’s the whole point? Manhunt is the one that’s about torturing women (aka “terfs”) to death for knowing that men are not women.
The adaptation promises to bring Felker-Martin’s brutal and gripping narrative to life on screen, a story that centres around trans women surviving in a post-apocalyptic world where testosterone transforms people into feral, zombie-like creatures.
It centers around Felker-Martin’s disgusting fantasies about slaughtering women.
Fans of trans horror are eager to see this ground-breaking story brought to the screen, especially given the novel’s unique take on a post-apocalyptic narrative, which diverges from the usual cisgender lens.
In Manhunt, trans women Beth and Fran are on the run, not only from these feral men but also from a group of murderous TERFs.
Subtle, right? It’s not men who are violent, it’s women who know that men are not women who are violent. Those women are in fact murderous. Get ’em!!
The narrative goes beyond mere survival, as the women struggle to continue their transitions amidst the chaos, a literal fight for life in the new world gone mad.
How is struggling to continue “transition” from man to woman a literal fight for life? Pretending to be a woman is not the same thing as life. Life does not depend on pretending to be a woman.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, “Manhunt” is basically “The Camp of the Saints” by Jean Raspail, except with the anti-immigration ideology of the former replaced with extremist trans ideology.
I think B&W readers might find this interesting. It’s one of the very few negative reviews of “Manhunt”. It’s by Mehreen Kasana, and it points out the heavy debt “Manhunt” owes to the superior story “The Screwfly Solution” by James Tiptree Jr. / Raccoona Sheldon.
https://mehreenkasana.substack.com/p/book-review-manhunt-by-gretchen-felker
And the Idenniny Communinny laps it up as this directly flatters their martyr complex. Also notable is that in this setting, the male antagonists can’t help themselves, but the nasty women are plain evil.
Remember the fawning reviews that Gretchen Felker-Martin novel got in respectable outlets like NPR?
https://archive.is/ixsjG
It says something about the rottenness of the modern publishing industry that everyone in it was too frightened of being called a “transphobe” to take issue with “Manhunt” being badly written piece of sadistic titillation.
If this “Manhunt” adaption ever gets made, it’s probably going to be like Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” – an expensive passion project that divides reviewers and keeps audiences away.
“Watch as they desperately search for practicing surgeons who still give enough of a shit to provide them with the ‘gender affirming care they deserve’, in a post-apocolyptic hellscape with no running water, or electricity!”
“See them demand affirmation and validation at gunpoint, from every wandering survivor they encounter!”
“Witness their ongoing struggle to find stereotypically “feminine” clothing, cosmetics, and accessories amidst the emptying racks and shelves of a ruined civilization!”
“Share their terror, as they fight to conquer this Brave and Stunning new world in strapless, sequined gowns, and stilettos!”
I can’t see there’d be much of a market for this, and I don’t think Wachowski is influential enough to create a market for it. It’s too niche. For all their vociferousness and presence on social media, and their disproportionate power, I don’t think there are enough trans activists and allies out there to support a production that’s going to cost tens of millions of dollars. He and his brother have been wringing as much as they can out of The Matrix for decades, but if he thinks people will flock to this because his name is on it, or because there’s really that much interest in “transness,” I think he’s in for a nasty surprise, along with the studio who sinks money in this. Felker-Martin will laugh all the way to the bank, but apart from that, I can’t see this one coming out in the black. That’s my guess anyhow.
Usual cisgender lens = reality
I believe there’s something along the lines of anyone with too high testosterone turning into a zombie. That’s the reason some transwomen survived when other men were transformed; the “gender affirming” care saved them and needs to be continued.
In the “sex-based apocalypse” genre, I liked the comic book “Y: The Last Man”, in which I remember lots of references to lesbians but nothing that I recall about “trans”. I heard a while back about a TV adaptation being made, in which the creators apparently had to do some genuflection to trans ideology, but I’m not sure if it got released yet or how artificially woke it was.
#4 YNNB,
To be honest that sounds like a great comedy satire that I’d watch:) But not because I agreed with the premise!
“All they wanted to do was wear a nice dress and bake cookies, but now they have to wander the wastelands killing everything in sight just to survive, but in a girly way, of course”.
Dan T: I was a fan of Y: The Last Man, too, and looking at a discussion of how the show adapted it in the Age of Trans, it seems it was mostly some mild mentions of transmen surviving, while all the transwomen died, and then a bit of trans language (so, “it wasn’t only men that died” sort of thing). Annoying, but at this particular point in history, probably accurate in its portrayal.
If I remember correctly, the book features JK Rowling as some sort of Nazi who gets murdered — wonder how the real JKR and her lawyers will react to that being part of the film? Another part of the book goes over, in loving detail, about a woman being killed by having her uterus torn out of her body. Wonder if the men making this film will include that scene?
I do not know why the word “Star” is in their masthead, but the paper was launched in Sydney as the “Sydney Star” at the time of the first Mardi Gras* in 1979 when homosexuals were regularly prosecuted and persecuted, homosexuality being illegal in NSW until 1984.
The paper has had a number of name changes over the years, as it has also morphed from being by, about, and for gays and lesbians to being a shill for the transgender borg.
*A Gay and Lesbian protest that has now morphed into a celebration of deviancy.
That was just a joke, of course.
I’m seeing an adaptation; the TERFs murder the trans by denying their existence. Since it’s the Matrix, they’re all just a few keystrokes from oblivion.
Isn’t this just an updated elaboration of what happens if children don’t clap to save Tinkerbell from dying in Peter Pan?