I like monster girls (act surprised). I would be lying if I didn’t say that a big part of the appeal is simply the xenophilic appeal of basically-a-pretty-girl plus exotic features. But there’s also something else going on there that I think is worth picking apart because monster girls (and boys) actually have something useful to say about our real world.
Monster girls are not humans. That means all assumptions you make about humans don’t apply, and that means two related things are foregrounded: accommodation, and communication. You have to ask a monster about their body, how it works, what it needs, what feels good and what to avoid. And when they tell you, you should believe them and provide them what they need, because they’re the experts on their own bodies and you care about them. Sometimes that means adaptive technology and sometimes that means reshaping the public environment for accessibility. And we find this easy and even fun to think and talk about because it’s fantasy.
Now suppose we were to apply the same mindset to actual people with different bodies and needs, whether due to disability, gender, or just being a unique individual who knows the particularities of the body they’ve lived in their whole life.
(It’s probably not a coincidence that I’m also into adaptive technology…)
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