sometimes i think about how i went well out of my way when writing The Abuser's Guide to Transmisogyny to make it abundantly apparent that it was satire, because i was worried that people on the internet would miss that when i'm writing what has been called "the a modest proposal of internet analysis" and "a work of machiavellian satire".
sometimes i thought i was going too far trying to make that clear, because surely people couldn't miss that something framed as a written guide on how to be a bad person was satirical, right? i nearly had a really heavy-handed introduction to The Abuser's Guide saying explicitly out loud that it was satire and acknowledging its specificity to my experience, but i cut it because it ruined the tone.
but considering somehow i have seen a handful of people miss that it's satire? i overestimated internet reading comprehension.

