Dear Fandom,
When it comes to batshit insane plots, early fiction about homosexuality has you beaten hands down. Allow me to demonstrate. Strangers summarises a 1901 novel, Weiberbeute, as follows:
a frustrated lesbian hypnotizes her girlish stepson into thinking himself a woman. She then induces a phantom pregnancy in him, fosters her own son on him and convinces him that he has given birth to a girl. Her death-bed confession is dismissed by the pseudo-mother as delirium.
In short: YOU STILL HAVE A LOT TO WORK ON. Behold the work of a true master of nonsensical, idiotic plots and despair.
ETA: Joséphin Péladan's La Gynandre (1891), in which the androgyne Tammuz marries all the lesbians of Paris to replicas of himself and forces them to worship a giant phallus to the accompaniment of the 'Ride of the Valkyries' ...
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...no, actually, I'm not even going to try to comment on that one.
a frustrated lesbian hypnotizes her girlish stepson into thinking himself a woman. She then induces a phantom pregnancy in him, fosters her own son on him and convinces him that he has given birth to a girl. Her death-bed confession is dismissed by the pseudo-mother as delirium.
In short: YOU STILL HAVE A LOT TO WORK ON. Behold the work of a true master of nonsensical, idiotic plots and despair.
ETA: Joséphin Péladan's La Gynandre (1891), in which the androgyne Tammuz marries all the lesbians of Paris to replicas of himself and forces them to worship a giant phallus to the accompaniment of the 'Ride of the Valkyries' ...
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...no, actually, I'm not even going to try to comment on that one.