Jess
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Jess used to be a man. Then he found himself in a female body. It wasn't funny. Why would anyone even think it was?
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There's a scene in Tootsie (1982) that is surely one of the most unacclaimed scenes of all time: Dustin Hoffman's character, Michael, as 'Dorothy', makes a suggestion on the set, and the director dismisses it out of hand. As I remember it, Hoffman's face?conveying surprise, confusion, indignation?shows perfectly Michael's reaction to the absence of (and, just maybe, awareness of) the advantage/s he's been receiving just because he's male. The entire movie should've been about that. Just that. It wasn't. And so I wrote Jess.
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"[Jess'] perspective on being a girl and woman while having memories of being a man offers an understanding I'd never thought of. Really interesting book." poolays, LibraryThing
"Very interesting book. ... Definitely worth reading." Dan, Goodreads
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She has also written nonfiction, including Sexist Shit that Pisses Me Off (2e), Just Think About It! (2e), What If? Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy, and Critical Reasoning: An Appeal to Reason. She was a columnist for the Ethics and Emerging Technologies website for a year (one of her columns received 35,000 hits, making it #3 of the year, and another received 34,000 hits, making it #5 of the year), The Philosopher Magazine's online philosophy café for eight years, and Philosophy Now for two years. She now blogs sporadically at pegtittle.com and hellyeahimafeminist.com.
