Feste the clown

we named it the computer mouse because it fit so comfortably in our hands and it reminded us of ancient times where our ancestors put their palms over the backs of cave mice and shuffled them across the ground to move the cursor on their cave wall mounted gaming monitors

I’m reading Ursula K Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and characters r saying the most mid-century misogynistic statements possible. “‘I’ve always said,” said Pae, ‘that girl technicians properly handled could take a good deal of the load of the men in any laboratory situation. They’re actually defter and quicker than men at repetitive tasks, and more docile—less easily bored. We could free men for original work much sooner, if we used women’” immediately made me think of the way women were used for doing calculations in early coding because of the repetitive nature, until people decided that software was actually for men too so scram women. Also the use of women as secretaries, good enough for taking down shorthand and typing up work, but not put in positions of original work. I’m sorry you’re discovering misogyny Shevek (although there was kind of some misogyny on his planet too at time, just far more personal and less structural)

Ursula K Le Guin in 1974 being like and then the straight man and the gay man had a relationship and lived together for ten days before calling it quits but maintaining the friendship

ImuRisa is if UtenAnthy and Gelphie had a child and left it at a convent.

who else up thinking about how the "helen never wanted to be in troy in any version of the story or at any time ever" rhetorical position, rather than complicating misogynistic views of the notoriously self-contradictory helen of ancient sources, has been turned to the service of rehabilitating menelaus' image instead