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Close enough, welcome back my immortal!!

Hiii fandom girlie do you want to explain why you are drawing/writing the dark skinned man as dominant over his lighter skinned partner when that doesn't fit his personality at all. The class is waiting for your answer

Hiiii fandom girlie can you also explain why you are drawing/writing him as hypersexual when that doesn’t fit his character? Can you explain why you’re drawing/writing him as stupid when he was just written with a sense of humour in canon? The class is really interested in what motivated that decision.

"you're complaining because he glamorizes sex work" is an accusation i've gotten twice and i'd really love to know where i ever said that since he actually portrays sex work as so horrific that it often feels like fear mongering

The tragedy of art is how it’s inaccessible to those who should tell it. We SHOULD hear stories about the sex work industry, how it abuses women and how we can escape it and showing the enduring strength of survivors, told by survivors. Unfortunately, survivors of the industry don’t have the capital or networks to make that art happen. You know who does? A guy who’s parents sent him to a private high school that cost $59,000 in an 80% white town

I have absolutely no empathy for men who are emphatic about having ‘a big family’ and willing to risk their wife’s health and/or leave her if she struggles with her pregnancies or has secondary infertility. I just don’t. Especially religious quiverfull freaks. If you think it can be God’s will for you to have 15 children, it can also be God’s will for you to have no children, or just one. You’re just a freak with a breeding fetish if you use that bullshit to justify impregnating your wife 10+ times but would be willing to leave her if she couldn’t conceive.

I’ve never met someone like this irl but I am unfortunately aware they exist, and I think it goes to show some very strong gendered differences in how we see families. As a woman, three kids would be a big family for me. That’s three people to budget for, three people to take care of, three people to understand, three people to correct when they make mistakes. Ten people? No. There’s no way you can give them a remotely good childhood, because it would be so difficult to build a substantive connection with ten whole people, not to mention the daily life of caring and raising and correcting and picking up after them. And if someone (who based on their gender expects to be a ‘breadwinner’) wants 10 kids, that sounds like they picked a number of social trophies to prove something about how ‘successful’ they are rather than actually wanting to commit to all aspects of those people.

This all comes back to the idea that some stories can be universally relatable (ie; better and more enjoyable to consume) than others based on where a character lies in imposed social hierarchies (patriarchy, racism, ableism, etc). I remember proposing The Song of Achilles to a high school book club, and one girl turned it down because “she couldn’t find gay men relatable.” Meanwhile as a lesbian, I’m obliged to find the stories of men and straight people enjoyable. And I do! But it irks me that there’s no inverse obligation for people with privilege to enjoy the stories of the marginalised

Thank you for putting this to words! You’re so right that there’s a USAmerican-ness to this trope, the idea that being Mean and Sassy will Gotcha the villain.

the amount of ableism directed towards people with allergies is insane. like quite frankly. why the fuck are you going out of your way to give someone an allergic reaction? why do people spend so much energy whinging about there being food options for someone with an allergy? “boohoo if I’m not allowed to eat nuts in a public place you’re violating my rights” well you’re violating the right for people with nut allergies to be able to live healthy lives so what now. it seriously shouldn’t be this hard

One thing that worries me about the use of AI is whether or not it can worsen people's dementia and alzheimer's in the future. When my grandmother was first diagnosed, we got her math activity books. Now, my grandmother never had a formal education, but we did our best to keep her sharp, get her to do math and writing activity books, sudokus, playing board games that required some level of strategizing with her. Her family is prone to alzheimer's and dementia (both her siblings had it and deteriorated very very very quickly, which yeah, scares the shit out of me being her granddaughter) but she was the one whose mind lasted the longest, she only passed away two years ago, at 88, ten whole years after her initial diagnosis and sure, she had forgotten things, recipes and where she put her glasses and appointments, but she never forgot any of us, ten whole years in, she still remembered us. Now, this may have been luck, but doctors always said the constant mental work + companionship + medicine helped her a lot. So I'm thinking, these people who are now relying on AI for everything, from email-writing to thinking what's for dinner to casual conversations, I've even seen people rely on it to calculate what time they should leave their house if they need to be at a place at a specific time and their commute lasts X number of minutes. As if that's not... the simplest math operation possible? You shouldn't even need a calculator for that!!! Idk I don't know how long it'll take us to see the effects of this + exposure to brain-rotting short form content that is completely meaningless + people addicted to right-wing conspiracy style media. Idk I'm very worried. Please, read, read complicated books! Take up a book on philosophy and try to decipher it and make your own opinions on it, please buy a maths activity book and relearn how to do math, please get a hobby that involves lots of thinking and concentrating. PLEASE!!!

It does impact your memory! I saw a study (I forget where, but it was an actual scientific paper, not an opinion article) that students using AI to do coursework have far worse memory retention of what they’ve done compared to students who used digital resources or just their own knowledge. If you’re a student reading this, please don’t use AI in school for your own sake!! The goal of school is to learn, and you won’t be able to learn as much if AI does components of your work for you!!