Crazy Cat Lady in Training

Fandom Problem #15,112:

"Why is there no complex, strong, independent, with lot of character development, lesbian, main character, woman in my man loving other men romance novels? It is sexist that there is no woman main character."

Seriously, why do you think there is no woman main character in a genre about men falling in love with, loving and fucking other men? Really think about it. Just deeply for a second, I think if you really really tried to do that, you would get why a story about men in a genre about men, does not have a woman as its main character or focus point.

Fandom Problem #15,114:

Fandom Problem #15,115:

Tumblr: WE WANT MORE MORALLY COMPLEX CHARACTERS!

Morally complex character: Exists

Fandom Problem #15,125:

"This character (A) is a much kinder person 😇 than this other really awful character (B) 😒"

"Oh, you mean the character who has had a loving family and never had any struggles in their life, compared to the child abuse victim who is suffering from trauma? Oh, yeah, such a struggle for A to be a more kind and trusting person than B has grown up to become. 🙄"

"But you do not understand, if A has had B's upbringing they would still be as kind and loving as they are now, because they are at the core a good person unlike B. 🥰"

None of the signup methods require a password. It only takes email and birthday. Minimizing time on the signin or signup screen makes it harder for people quitting to avoid relapse.

"Characters" on the website will send messages "on their own" (prompted by the site) to try to invite inactive users back after as soon as 1 day of inactivity. This is likely to force FOMO, or make users feel more like they owe the bots a response. Unhealthy attachment stuff.

Account deletion is an essential part of every service that should go smoothly, right? Right? Wrong. It takes 1-2 weeks for a Character AI account deletion to be finalized, and account deletion requests have a high chance to not go through if you're not using the app.

Rephrasing: People leaving Character.AI are pushed to download the app in order to delete their accounts, if they haven't already. This makes it harder for people to quit and stay gone. Failing to quit an addiction makes it harder to quit successfully in the future, so this feels like a feature, not a bug. On top of that, the delete account menu reads like this:

Fandom Problem #15,103:

Let women be flawed.

Let women make mistakes.

Let women be mean.

Let women be spiteful bitches.

Let women be cruel.

Let women be the villains.

Let women be ugly cryers.

Let women be weak.

Let women be feminine.

Let women be soft.

Let women be angry.

Let woman be human.

And stop with the women must be perfect little angels and flawless warriors bullshit. We women are humans just as flawed and inperfect as every other human being.

It's this piece, titled The Banality of the Banality of Evil. Because on first glance, you're like. Yeah, okay, it's obvious what it's saying. Even nazis, even evil people can appreciate beauty, too. But then you learn its name, and suddenly the interpretation shifts a bit. The idea that evil is banal has in itself become banal. my first response to seeing a nazi on a bench is "oh it's about the banality of evil" and not "jesus christ there's a nazi on the bench."

what I find really interesting is how the way this is drawn (especially considering who drew it) the art style seems extremely deliberate. This type of nostalgic landscape painting is very reminiscent of nazi art and specifically, Hitler's art.

Nazis were extremely judgmental of "entartete Kunst" (degenerate art). Bansky's usual work very well fall into this category! So for him to go for this style of painting in particular is another choice I find very interesting, because I can see some people react to this painting with some variation of "oh, I didn't know he could actually draw! I thought he is a hack but he is a real artist!" - and that is where they would agree with the Nazis.

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.