#as inevitable it's just a question of whether it'll be pre- or post-mortem
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watched conclave last night and then read the wikipedia entry for the book and now I'm wondering about the category ten shitstorm that a publicly intersex pope would cause
#bolo liveblogs#conclave spoilers#bc the movie kind of dodged the issue but the book apparently treats the discovery of benitez's intersex status#as inevitable it's just a question of whether it'll be pre- or post-mortem#and how it'd affect his papacy bc.#while I resent tumblr's overwhelming tendency to bring characters we like in line with our political views#(it feels like the easy way out/unsatisfying to me)#(like yes benitez is a liberal catholic but he is still *a catholic clergyman* let's be real)#benitez can't espouse that having a uterus disqualifies anyone from being a man etc. like categorically he can't do that#I don't think he has a ''you can be whatever you want to be'' view on gender or anything#but I think he's reckoned with sex and gender as social constructs in a more critical way than his peers have#and in a way he's certainly got higher personal stakes for.#but at the same time you knowwwwwww tradcaths would be heinous about it#''CLEARLY you only think women should have a bigger role in the church because---''#idk I have a disease that makes me imagine the squabbling cultural fallout of all hypothetical political situations in fiction
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