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is wanting to be a wife and mother a requirement for being a woman?

why might OP be annoyed with replies assuming that this post is about being aroace or transmasc if a woman doesn’t want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to sexuality and romantic interest that might make a woman not want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to gender identity and expression that might make a woman not want to be a wife and mother?

core concept: what is gender essentialism?

is it gender essentialism to imply that all women inherently want to be wives and mothers? could this be what OP is critiquing?

look at the notes OP responds to. is it gender essentialism to imply that being a wife and mother is so affixed to womanhood that to not want to be those things means you’re incapable of sexual/romantic feelings, or not a woman?

And I'm not pulling this out of my ass! Chidi is repeatedly disturbed by the idea of morality predicated on surveillance and reward. Anyone with moral hangups that profound would be. However, something I see quite subtly/rarely in the show is a preoccupation with rightness. Chidi wants to make not only a good choice, but the best choice; in doing so, he's measuring for short-term and long-term outcome, impact on the scale from personal to global, and personal satisfaction or tastes (probably etc.). In short, every choice is imbued with the anxiety that if he makes an unideal choice, it will lead to catastrophic consequences. He's attempting to control for random suffering and misfortune by adhering to a strict of guidelines which are, by nature, often contradictory. This indicates an underlying black/white psychological framework, which leads him to obsessively make "moral" and "right" choices.

tl;dr: he's almost certainly got OCD.

My understanding is that TGP takes the position that self-centered or -interested action is the root of immoral behavior. Chidi's indecisiveness is self-centered. Unconsciously, he has taken on an outsized role in the maintenance of all good and evil in the world. The kind of panic he experiences indicates that pretty clearly. You wouldn't be getting 800 stomachaches if your body wasn't reacting as if every decision was a real threat with material stakes.

In doing so, I think an unspoken-for factor in his "badness score" is how much of his moral actions were taken for fear of consequence, rather than desire for good. If all he wanted was good, he wouldn't be so afraid all the time.

That the feared consequence is amorphous and untethered from reality doesn't change the fact that, within the existing system, those actions won't really count. Which is fucked up! It's another way that the system punishes people unfairly. Chidi can't really help that his brain functions this way. Not to say there's no place for accountability: there are treatment options available for this stuff which he doesn't ever seem to have pursued.

(Digression optional: Part of that seems to be environment—everyone around him either enables the behavior by going "oh, that's moral philosophy professors!" or takes a full personal responsibility stance (like his bff). During his life, no one treats his anxiety like a medical condition. It makes sense that he wouldn't have pursued that option. But still, he didn't. And I know this is a comedy show and that might ruin tone but let me live. I'll be up to my shoulders, even if I need to crouch.)

Either way, I think that's an unspoken part of why he's "bad". His obsession with doing good things is, at heart, about doing the right thing to avoid negative consequences. That's why it's so perfect that the test he's given is just two hats in a white void with a timer. In this space, there is literally no way this can actually be about morality or ethics. Nothing and no one is hurt even a little by what he chooses, but he still can't choose, knowing his soul is on the line. He's floundering to take control of his suffering, while misidentifying the real threat. It lays bare the core dysfunction of his behavior while being comedic in its absurdity.

The next day, some kind of weird illusion goes up on their Fantasy Twitter, blue-and-white/black-and-gold dress style, where most people see a still pool and some see a tabaxi woman in it; it immediately goes viral. They then start uploading and streaming random stuff from INSIDE THE FOREST OF THE NIGHTMARE KING like a man in shining gold armour just absolutely tearing apart legions of devils while screaming that he's hurt his penis. No explanation for any part of this is offered at any point. Also, it's probably not immediately obvious, but it's gotta come out eventually that at some point during all of this Fig became a literal archduke of hell.

become ensnared in its own

web from time to time?

the idea that thousands of people are calling alexander hamilton a slut

calling any founding father a slut

the idea that people are SHAMING Alexander Hamilton for being Such A Slut he is being SHAMED for being such a naughty little tart, SPREADING HIS LEGS FOR EVERYONE IN CONGRESS

that this was probably prompted by people expression dissaproval for Alexander Hamilton cheating on his wife - that the OP thinks “slut shaming” and “Isnt it gross that he cheated on his wife” are the same thing

Alexander Hamilton has been dead for 210

210 slutty, slutty years

the way that this is presented in such a CHECKMATE SJWS way when they’re talking about a founding father who cheated on his wife and has been DEAD FOR 210 YEARS

the fact that the words “Slutshaming” and “Alexander Hamilton” have been used in the same sentence

i mean just apply what we’d traditionally think of as “slut shaming” to Alexander Hamilton.

His frock coat is too tight, his breaches are so short, have you SEEN how often he powders his wig??? I heard he gave Thomas Jefferson a handy behind the stables AND that he got fingered by John Hancock