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grace lands on calling rocky "he" because he has a split second of panic in one of their first interactions and thinks "uhhh he or she or oh gosh this species might have a dozen sexes and use pronouns I don't even have words for um uh okay I'll just use 'he' because using 'it' for a sapient creature feels wrong. why does no one talk about how to use pronouns in first contact." personally I find this hilarious because it characterizes grace as being just about Gender Aware enough to conceive of and be cool with the idea of sex and gender existing outside of the socially constructed binary and is probably even down to use neopronouns for people, but also a) he still opts for "he" over "they" and b) is completely unaware that zillions of people are absolutely having fifth dimensional discussions about pronouns and first contact.

grace never refers to adrian by pronouns.

grace thinks of adrian as rocky's spouse specifically, not husband or wife.

there's a tiny bit at the end where grace says if he shined a light out of the clear xenonite of his dome then he could "see an eridian going about his business," meaning he's probably just using "he" as the pronoun for all eridians.

Rocky: Yes?

Grace: What is the material of your clothing made out of? Since it doesn’t seem that you have any wool-bearing animals or cotton-like plants on Erid.

Rocky: Oh, it’s a rock with a fibrous material!

Grace: (Uh oh)

Grace: Uh, what’s the chemical composition for that rock?

Rocky: Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4

Grace, doing mental chemistry: So that’s something we call asbest- Uh oh.

It’s an excuse to be violent towards an out group: something NI has a long and proud history of doing.

“this argument works both ways though. the converse can be argued, so the Irish have no problem with vast numbers of foreigners coming over and changing their culture, but it was a problem when the Brits did it?”

My response:

The Polish, Sudanese, and Syrian refugees aren’t actively segregating communities, paying the indigenous Catholics less, refusing them schooling, property, and legal rights, trying to genocide them through a manufactured famine, making the indigenous language illegal, and causing active discrimination which I experienced as someone born in 1999, several hundred years after.

recently there was a stabbing allegedly by a sudanese man [he has neither confirmed or denied but there is footage of him with the victim - with what has been released to the public its unclear]

conveniently this stabbing happened just after the news that the UK police let a white boy die after he was stabbed by a sikh [that one went to court] and caused riots in southampton

because the northern irish are so heavily segregated and so many of the immigrants are catholic it's skewing the republican majority so the republicans and their allegedly non-existent paramilitary groups have been building discontent towards the immigrants causing republican youth to firebomb stores, throw bricks into people's houses etc where these people have been housed in republican areas

riots and firebombs have been active in republican areas, immigrant homes are being firebombed, immigrants of every flavour are being assaulted by the republicans [think maga that are too racist to eat tex mex] whilst the DUP [republican political group] are complaining about how everyone should be treated fairly and if they don't want immigrants in their housing areas then the immigrants shouldn't be allowed in

they don't want the immigrants because it challenges their power, but conveniently it also distracts from the fact that their de facto leader for years turned out to be a pedophile whose wife found victims for him

every time the PSNI [police force] need money something happens where the republicans are threatened,

but they have groomed these areas to riot and this was no different, they are as aware as the unionists [not republicans] that violence gets them what they want so they send their people out with pitchforks and burning torches

and in july they'll build illegal bonfires so fucking big that they'll get the aid gondor hopes for, and on them they will put effigies of their enemies and deny everything as they insist on their cultural right to march past catholic homes playing songs that are basically burn the irish cromwell was on to something

“Lesson #1 how far can humans see”

Teto, Gakupo and, what's this? SEEU!??