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Roger's Plight
by Constance Grant

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Comment by ashley on 08/08/13
Just awful - - beyond awful - - -

Comment by Silvia. on 08/21/11
This story is sickening and disgusting.
Catherine, Mike and Nancy Catherine's friend should be sentenced to life imprisonment.
 

Comment by Sheri on 08/13/09
What a way to !!!

Comment by Molly on 04/09/08
Warning: contains SPOILERS.

Forced fem stories... I guess we either love them or we hate them. I usually steer clear of "Bad Boy to Good Girl, Femdom/ Authoritarian, Physically Forced or Blackmailed" stories, but I allowed myself to be coaxed into "following your pen" in this instance. Nowhere, though, could I spot the bulge in your cheek that would indicate your tongue was lodged within it (my failing, perhaps), and instead found myself reading another nasty forced fem by blackmail (ho hum, done to death) story. I don't enjoy stories about people who "get off" on the suffering of others (far too many of these in the real world -- they are in the news all the time), and I certainly did not enjoy Roger's Plight.

I was actually quite surprised. After all, I had just read your _Mary Walsh's Own Story_, which you wrote in response to another nasty forced fem story (Christine's _Forced To Be A Girl_, which I also read in order to understand yours), so I expected a satire or some other sort of take-off on the sub-genre. However, where _Forced To Be A Girl_ is a simple-minded piece of hate and malice that does not pretend to be any more than it is, you are capable of many more layers of subtlety and complexity -- the result here is a story that showcases the boundless capacity that people have to lie to themselves. Perhaps that was your tongue in cheek?

First off, we have a wife who, though she claims she "loves her husband, after a fashion," offers us a compassionless description of him as a thoroughly despicable character, and brands him as a "looser." Of course she has to do that, for how else can she justify what she is about to do to him? Nations demonize and dehumanize "the enemy" when they go to war for the very same reason. And so she molds him into her own creation, something she can "love" more than what she has now. Did she, as Christopher Leeson claims in his _Prisoners of Tiresias_, marry a wallet first, and then decide on what to do with the "jerk" that came attached to it afterwards? It sure sounds like he got the worst end of the financial deal in his marriage, to be sure (he gets to carry all the living expenses for the both of them, while her considerable income is entirely her own to spend).

After his wife meets his mom, and after his mom swallows whole his wife's highly edited account of his transformation (what a sucker!), he tells them both a story that neither has heard before: how, after his mom raised him as a girl, his father came home early one evening, found him in a dress, and dragged him off to a cabin in the woods -- where his father beat, raped, and sodomized him. The wife, now understanding the childhood trauma behind her husband's inadequacies (apart from his small phallus and libido, and his inability to satisfy her sexually -- no wonder men worry about that so much!), suddenly feels horribly guilty over the course of action she has chosen. So, what does she do? Why, blame the victim, of course! She curses his maleness, which she tells herself is the reason why he didn't feel safe enough, nor trust her enough, to share his feelings and experiences with her.

This sort of story pushes my buttons, because I see stuff just like it in the world all around me every day. Here's a guy, traumatized and damaged in his childhood (in this case, force-feminized by his mom for her own purposes, which left him open to being abused by his father for HIS own purposes), nevertheless doing the best he can. Naturally, he feels like crud about himself (knowing that he can't satisfy his wife doesn't help very much), so he tries to cope by turning to addictive behavior (alcohol, gambling, masturbation), in order to numb out to his own self-loathing. Of course, he doesn't turn to her for help, because SHE IS PART OF THE PROBLEM. She, feeling frustrated and dissatisfied, doesn't love him enough to try and find out what is behind his problems, and instead decides that he isn't "paying up" on his obligations to her. So, she brands him a "looser" and heaps MORE trauma on him, so that he will be more useful for HER purposes. The author, who clearly understands human nature, gives us several good reasons why the husband might even come to like his transformation: he has already been conditioned by his mom to believe he is more lovable as a girl than as a boy; his wife likes what she has transformed him into, so that it feels at least a little like love and acceptance; and people thus damaged the way he has been frequently believe that they deserve to be punished. Exactly this sort of experience (being unable to cope because of my wounds, and then receiving more wounds because I am unable to cope) surrounds my own gender dysphoria, and leaves me depressed and suicidal. Why would I want to read about more of the same sort of human misery in a story?

Following mom's visit, the wife and her freshly minted sissy slave shemale visit the house of the wife's best girlfriend and former college roommate, the person who advocated and facilitated her transformation of her husband. This friend turns out to be a femdom who is very heavily into the "scene." We read of the wife's disgust when confronted with some of the methods her friend uses to manage her current slave, some of which are the same methods she used to sissify her husband. So now the wife is revealed to be a hypocrite on top of everything else. Who is the despicable character now? Perhaps this is the author's satire, which I seem to be missing?

The story is told as a flashback, through the device of presenting us with the wife's diary, preceded by her introduction. I am glad that she tells us that, on reflection over the events she is about to share with us, that she does not like herself very much -- for there is truly a great deal to dislike. Looked at one way, I suppose this story can be seen as a forceful commentary on the whole femdom/forced fem/sissy scenario. Perhaps the author's real tongue in cheek was to sit back, watch this comments page, and see who "gets" it?

One last thought: it seems a cheap trick to ascribe mechanical (eg. grammatical) writing errors to your characters (the wife's disclaimer concerning her diary). Besides, you really don't need that -- your writing is already better than 90% of the other amateur fiction on these various repositories.


Comment by lee lee on 04/09/08
Ah my comment page has been on the blink and finally it is back and what a nice story to read now that I can respond again.  I wish my mother had lived long enough to see her grown up sissy. The thanksgiving meeting was precious and I had to stop and regroup (clean up) a little when I read the gentle incest excerpt.  I love threesomes which exhibit LOVE as a motivation. This story did just that   I am not too sure I will read the other stories  but this one kept me very interested and of course hormone therapy is one of my favorite topics. I have successfully experimented with moving my balls into my caviity but the stitching cameao was priceless Thank for a well told story

Comment by Kristi Fitzpatrick on 09/15/03
I have read your story a while ago and was trying to remember how to find it.  I have been thinking of this story for a few days. I am just as please as when I read it roughly a year ago. What a delicious tale.  And I must say that my forays into Fem-dom  are usually very short lived being unable to finish any because of the harshness.  While I coinsider your tale to be harsh it is right on the edge for me and Catherine really does confirm her love and affection for the newly minted Bridget as she obviously adores her.  Bridget really does seem to have the stronger love though as Catherine in a way has saved her from herself.  Somehow you manage to keep the changing tone consistent all the way through.  I don't know how.  Also the point of view is very convincingly feminine given the extent of casual femininity strewn through the story with no real CD attachment to the transformation process.  I do so love a love story and this one, though quirky in some ways, is a real love story to me. You are a fabulous writer and everything is laid out crystal clear in front of us as if it really happened.  Will you write some more please?  Thank you ever so much!

Hugs,

Kristi

Comment by Jezzi Stewart on 08/25/03
You certainly know hopw to take a despicable character and make him a sympathetic one.  I hope Roger is just pretending, biding HIS time to get revenge.  Yes, he was a bastard, and, if somewhere along the line, before permanent physical changes had begun, she had given him a chance to be Roger again, I would have said she was justified in her punishment.  But doing permanent stuff to him without letting him prove HE was reformed was too much.  Also, refusing to have his sperm frozen was extremely cruel; I wish he had succeeded at whatever he tried.  Anyway, SHE's a woman now and stuck that way, but I hope she finds a way to ruin and humiliate Catherine and Mike. and leave them destitute.

Comment by Sharlee Snyder on 04/19/03
Love'd the story!!!!!  Will there be more, or was the promise of more, some of that tongue in cheek?

Comment by Barbie on 02/28/01
Great story. I love all that special surgery. Thank you.

Comment by Francesca on 02/10/01
A wonderful story so far, I would love to see how it all ends. The subject seems to enjoy the process and it's all for his /her own good. The wife still cares. Other stories of this type which involve a brutal desertion by the wife give me a little feeling of sadness for love and marriage(regardless of how much I may enjoy the titillation).I suppose I am just a softy at heart.I really do like your style and suspect you are a very nice to know person.
Sometimes I forget to click the post it button.



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