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I’m absolutely flabbergasted (derogatory).

I admittedly don’t understand what Jemisin is trying to get at with Tonkee. I don’t want to say it’s been wholly indelicately handled thus far, but its introduction was certainly something. Why describe your protagonist staring at someone’s genitals? Idk it’s a weird way to approach it, for starters, and the more I read the more hope I subsequently lose.