stop calling it a girl dinner and call it by its formal name: Fend For Yourself dinner in an ingredients household

Something about the bastardization of the story time and time again proves that nobody in power really cares about the people who would resonate with King’s Carrie White. A girl so ugly and repulsive she’s been removed from her own story. The societal need for women and girls to be constantly perceived as attractive is what fuels a fair amount of her torment in the book, but that person isn’t even allowed to exist on the screen. We cannot empathize with her; it isn’t allowed. It’s fascinating to me.

anorexia as class signaling in the US needs a dissertation atp because that's genuinely why celebrities are like that. it's not just being thin but underweight to the point where if you didn't have proper resources, you would be unable to function in daily life. that's where class comes into play. it's a way of saying you can afford to live on the edge. I fully believe this

to be clear i'm not saying that's the only factor at play here, just a more blatantly emerging one in modern times

Official ominous sign

there should be like secret extra editions of dnd that wotc denounces as false like christian apocrypha

woah woah wooah woah woah .wow. woah. wow. i just saw someone say that chilchuck is minor coded. CHILCHUCK?

at what point does "minor coded" start to just show people's unquestioned biases against little people

I mean he is very much coded as a minor. That's the setup for the reveal that he is in fact a middle-aged father of three, and is in fact the most adult person present. If Chilchuck were not coded as a minor the message of "check your biases because appearance isn't everything" would not work

i understand what youre saying, but i still think hes not coded as a minor. at no point does chilchuck do anything to make it out like hes a kid, and actually bucks against the idea pretty strongly. the only thing that makes him come across as a minor is his height, which is not actually a minor-only trait and only makes him seem young due to biases from the audience/other races. if anything, chilchuck is pretty strongly coded as a dwarf (as in, someone with dwarfism)

“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it, but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.” Ursula K. Le Guin "American SF and The Other" in Science-Fiction Studies 7, 1975.

Menial chores and drudgery get a bad rap, but really there's something to be said for work that merely demands the application of time and straightforward unglamorous effort and has simple unambiguous parameters for completion. If the only way to unlock the state of having achieved something worthwhile was by doing things that express your values, virtues and personality, well that would soon become a heavy burden I think.