Cpt Hawk’s Reviews > If I Was Your Girl > Status Update

Another trans person couldn't be put in this narrative because if another trans person was in the story and they weren't as flawlessly gorgeous and passing as the protag, all this nonsense about the protag's Atlas-level trans struggle would be crystal clear as opposed to simply obvious

Chloe you are everything to me. Local tomboy pulls a gun on a perv, more news at 11

Alright I will give the book this. I haven't seen a all-girls shopping trip scene in years and years, and I really like this one because one girl is getting into color palettes and undertones (my hero) and then you've got the farm girl tomboy of the group asking, "You can mute colors?" which has me cackling.

Surely the protag's "equal secret" to hand out to someone talking about their traumatic rape and feeling complicit in the trauma of other girls who got in similar situations ISN'T "Well I'm trans"? Oh, it is? COME ON!

Not the religious bullshit, pleaaaaaase. When will I be free of these horrid Christians

The text: And the Baptist parents of the protag's friends are very controlling and wretched people, also they're conservative shitheads of the worst degree, peep their bumper stickers
Also the text, a mere few pages later: And the church they attend every Sunday only believes in love and light <333 Radical honestly <333 Being "real" Christians without the bad parts <333

What abject clownery is this ... Russo WTF

The text: The protag is terrified of being found at as trans & is in hella danger & is doing everything in her power to stay stealth, something that is hard for her to do
The protag: Yeah I think I'm going to go to this Southern Baptist church I've never been to before because a new friend I made asked me to. Also I'll change in front of other girls casually and everything is totally good, I have no problems :)

Alright I restarted to get the math. By page 73, there are 26 pages wherein people flirt with the protag, or tell her how hot or cool she is. That's a whole 35% of the story. IF I include a couple encounters wherein interest is implied but not so explicitly stated, that brings us to 31 pages of people noticing how hot and cool she is, a whopping 42% of the story. I am told that it somehow gets worse.