Tags: review (webcomic/graphic novel)
Status: draft
-I want to use the platform of my comparatively ("comparatively") obscure blog to tell you about two comparatively obscure webcomics I like that display some striking parallels, and whose readerships probably anti-correlate—overlapping less than two _arbitrary_ webcomics of similar comparative obscurity.
+I want to use the platform of my comparatively ("comparatively") obscure blog to tell you about two comparatively obscure webcomics I like, that display some striking parallels, and whose readerships probably anti-correlate—overlapping less than two _arbitrary_ webcomics of similar comparative obscurity.
-_Closetspace_
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-pervert assumption of Allison's last roommate http://www.dolari.org/cs/4.htm
-"I like dressing like a woman. I like _being_ a woman." http://www.dolari.org/cs/11.htm
-"Guys just aren't my thing" http://www.dolari.org/cs/16.htm
+[_Closetspace_](http://www.dolari.org/cs/index.htm) is the story of a boy named Jason who decides to live as a girl named Carrie in Texas of the late '90s or early 'aughts. Escaping family disapproval, Carrie moves in with a new housemate, Allison. The twist in the premise is, it turns out that Allison is _also_ a male-to-female transsexual, but [neither is aware of the other's secret](http://www.dolari.org/cs/31.htm).
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+The series follows Carrie and Allison as they face life's challenges—[their house gets attacked by a insurrectionist](http://www.dolari.org/cs/34.htm); Carrie gets [accidentally kidnapped by a dominatrix](http://www.dolari.org/cs/48.htm) [(who is _also_ trans)](http://www.dolari.org/cs/53.htm); [Allison copes with regrets about her own transition](http://www.dolari.org/cs/83.htm); Carrie's mom [has a stroke](http://www.dolari.org/cs/81.htm) [and dies](http://www.dolari.org/cs/153.htm), and Carrie [faces pushback](http://www.dolari.org/cs/160.htm) ([including from](http://www.dolari.org/cs/164.htm) her [previously mostly supportive](http://www.dolari.org/cs/15.htm) sister) after showing up [at the hospital](http://www.dolari.org/cs/90.htm) and [to the funeral](http://www.dolari.org/cs/158.htm) _as_ Carrie, causing her to [develop social anxiety](http://www.dolari.org/cs/178.htm); Allison [gets addicted to an old video game](http://www.dolari.org/cs/193.htm), connects with [an interior-decorating client](http://www.dolari.org/cs/116.htm) and [an old friend](http://www.dolari.org/cs/317.htm); Carrie's drag queen friend [also dies](http://www.dolari.org/cs/266.htm).
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+It wasn't something I noticed when I first encountered _Closetspace_ around 2010 or so, but knowing [what I know now](/2018/Jan/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes/), it's really striking how much the Blanchardian [two-type taxonomy](/tag/two-type-taxonomy/) shines through in the course of telling Carrie's story, not because the author intended any such reading, but because the taxonomic structure in human psychology is going to show up when you tell a story that's true to human life. (Recap for new readers: there are [two etiologically distinct types of male-to-female transsexuals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanchard%27s_transsexualism_typology)—an androphilic type coterminous with the most effeminate gay men, and an _autogynephilic_ type—["men who love women and want to become what they love"](http://unremediatedgender.space/papers/lawrence-becoming_what_we_love.pdf).)
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+The author probably doesn't believe in the typology (if she's even heard of it), but _the traits line up anyway_. Carrie is straight—gynephilic (["Guys just aren't my thing"](http://www.dolari.org/cs/16.htm), she tells her sister). Carrie's gay (androphilic) drag queen friend Victor/Victoria [doesn't understand Carrie's motivations](http://www.dolari.org/cs/67.htm): "Not to mention you don't _think_ like one of 'them'", she comments on Carrie's lack of innate femininity. (Anyone can see that effeminate gays taking on female roles "make sense"; autogynephilia is harder to understand if you haven't yourself felt the tug of the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.) Heidi the (male) dominatrix [displays a working knowledge of the typology while coming on to Carrie](http://www.dolari.org/cs/268.htm): "We're both crossdressers, and we aren't anything like drag queens [...] sometimes I want to hang out with someone like me. Someone like you." Indeed!
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+pseudo-androphilia! http://www.dolari.org/cs/239.htm
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+"And I feel a longing" ... could she be more specific http://www.dolari.org/cs/231.htm
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+[TODO—paragraph about passing—
+As a quibble about realism, I'm not sure how Carrie manages to pass _without HRT_.
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+on passing—
How does Carrie pass? No one mistakes Texas revolutionary woman for a man just because she has short hair and wears men's clothes http://www.dolari.org/cs/23.htm
-Not to mention you don't _think_ like one of "them"!! http://www.dolari.org/cs/24.htm
She sings! How does she pass while singing!!
+guest illustrator gave Carrie a more realistic face http://www.dolari.org/cs/357.htm
+Alison suspects: http://www.dolari.org/cs/57.htm
+What about you, Carrie? http://www.dolari.org/cs/54.htm
+Allison, "I thought I knew what to look for"!!! http://www.dolari.org/cs/255.htm
+"had me thinking you were a guy for a sec, too" http://www.dolari.org/cs/254.htm
+Maybe Allison is just oblivious?!
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+remaining summary points—
+pervert assumption of Allison's last roommate http://www.dolari.org/cs/4.htm
+"I like dressing like a woman. I like _being_ a woman." http://www.dolari.org/cs/11.htm
kidnapped by a domniatrix http://www.dolari.org/cs/48.htm
The dominatrix is trans!! Everyone is trans! http://www.dolari.org/cs/53.htm
-What about you, Carrie? http://www.dolari.org/cs/54.htm
This doctor does hormones http://www.dolari.org/cs/55.htm
-Alison suspects: http://www.dolari.org/cs/57.htm
story goes back to the 1990s: http://www.dolari.org/cs/articles/99706roo.htm
"When you make a very expensive decision, you think you'd learn to live with it" http://www.dolari.org/cs/64.htm
-"It's not about the clothes" http://www.dolari.org/cs/67.htm
"I'll have medical bills to think about soon" http://www.dolari.org/cs/73.htm
a couple of snips doesn't change that http://www.dolari.org/cs/80.htm
"some of the effects are rather permanent" slave: "beards and breasts are forever" http://www.dolari.org/cs/82.htm
Alison as a child http://www.dolari.org/cs/110.htm http://www.dolari.org/cs/111.htm
"When I was 21, I made a mistake" http://www.dolari.org/cs/115.htm
story so far: http://www.dolari.org/cs/132b.htm (note the non-identity model phrasing, "used to be")
+more story so far: http://www.dolari.org/cs/252b.htm "is/was male"
"I haven't been your big brother for over a month" http://www.dolari.org/cs/133.htm (not the identity model!)
"only because I haven't seen you this confident before" "it's the perscription bra" http://www.dolari.org/cs/136.htm
http://www.dolari.org/cs/142.htm
Jem! http://www.dolari.org/cs/198.htm
grocery shopping http://www.dolari.org/cs/209.htm
visit from niece/aunt http://www.dolari.org/cs/215.htm http://www.dolari.org/cs/216.htm
-"And I feel a longing" ... could she be more specific http://www.dolari.org/cs/231.htm
"One small gene, all these problems from one tiny little gene" http://www.dolari.org/cs/231.htm
"Chromosome" http://www.dolari.org/cs/232.htm (Actually, they're both right! The SRY gene is the active part of the Y chromosome)
-pseudo-androphilia! http://www.dolari.org/cs/239.htm
-"We're both crossdressers, and we aren't anything like drag queens [...] someone like me. Someone like you"!! http://www.dolari.org/cs/268.htm
Allison is only three years in http://www.dolari.org/cs/317.htm
"in Thailand, no questions asked" http://www.dolari.org/cs/320.htm
ambiguity on what "Carrie" means!! (Carol vs. Carolyn this is actually relevant to me) http://www.dolari.org/cs/326.htm
nine months http://www.dolari.org/cs/332.htm
-guest illustrator gave Carrie a more realistic face http://www.dolari.org/cs/357.htm
+drag queens make Allison uncomfortable http://www.dolari.org/cs/253.htm http://www.dolari.org/cs/254.htm (Alison is committed to relative "stealth"; this isn't a "trans women are women" setting— )
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-_Lease Bound_
+_Lease Bound_ is the story of
Rainbow background "oh": http://leasebound.com/comic/c1p03/ explains "does she sound different" http://leasebound.com/comic/c1p01/
It's weird that Jaden went to uni (http://leasebound.com/comic/c1p08/) and has never heard of trans?—is she, like, old?—no, she's 24 http://leasebound.com/comic/c6p16/
http://leasebound.com/comic/ch9p8/
"my husband" everyone is gay!! http://leasebound.com/comic/ch9p7/
-Adelaide, Australian references: Madmarch, pawpaw cream (https://lucaspapaw.com.au/)
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+Adelaide, Australian references: Madmarch, pawpaw cream (https://lucaspapaw.com.au/)
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