a series of bats

i only have a few different ways to explain to people that the entire edifice of mainstream western science is in favor of manipulating data to show that women, non-white persons, and the poor are irrational, beholden to animalistic instinct only, victims of their base impulses, etc and that the survival of multiple-billion dollar industries and indeed entire political systems are depending on the data to do this. and that you should perhaps not be so quick to carry their fucking water for them

y'all have got to stop making up types of guys to get mad at. i can't keep meeting these tulpas in my daily life. every time you go to make up a guy, remember that you might cause him to manifest and ruin my day. and you don't want to do that to me. i'm literally nice.

your strawmen are real and they are bothering me at the post office

I present my "stop viewing wives and children as property" strategy to crime preventers but they are unmoved

One thing I don't care for is when people say a story "could only ever have ended in one way" and stuff like that. First off, the nature of storytelling means that even small differences can have a huge impact on how the story actually feels at its conclusion. Second, I can imagine anything.