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A review by bookish_kristina
The Stocking Was Hung by Tara Sivec
Did not finish book.
DNF 30%
This hasn’t aged well and the humour was too cringe for me. When her ‘transvestite’ Aunt grabbed the MMC’s crotch as he first enters the house, I was put off, when the story continued to make transphobic jokes, I had to bail.
There was no reason to make this character trans, she could have just been a zany aunt with no boundaries, I would have even accepted a drag queen, but adding the jokes about her gender transformation was extremely gross. Trans people deserve all of our love and sensitivity and none of our mockery. I will die on this hill.
This hasn’t aged well and the humour was too cringe for me. When her ‘transvestite’ Aunt grabbed the MMC’s crotch as he first enters the house, I was put off, when the story continued to make transphobic jokes, I had to bail.
There was no reason to make this character trans, she could have just been a zany aunt with no boundaries, I would have even accepted a drag queen, but adding the jokes about her gender transformation was extremely gross. Trans people deserve all of our love and sensitivity and none of our mockery. I will die on this hill.