Behold; My Stuff

We can't study misogyny via an experiment where we put one woman in a world with misogyny and another woman in a world with no misogyny and see what happens, we just observe this world and come up with theories to explain it, theories that can be tested when new data comes in.

The "Gender Critical" theory (if it can be called that) is that your birth sex (or chromosomes, or gametes, or intended gametes (???)) determines whether or not you experience misogyny. OK, we can test that quite easily, and it explains misogynistic oppression for well over 90% of the population. Great.

One problem though, there's this specific category of people for whom it doesn't seem to work at all. The data that comes in from our sociological "telescope" is stuff like the gender pay gap statistics, and that tells us that, accounting for other marginalisations like race, sexuality, disability, there's around 1% of people who according to GC theory should be at the top of the pile but are actually right at the bottom.

Their theory cannot explain the observations that we see, so there must be something that their theory is missing. It's just like the Michelson-Morley experiment that disproved the existence of aether or Eddington's observation of light being deflected by the sun's gravity. The old theory cannot explain what we observe, so we need a new one.

We can try out a theory from Julia Serano that says that sexism actually has two forms: one that venerates masculinity and abhors femininity; and another that rewards adherence to the gender expression that society has decided is appropriate for your birth sex, and punishes deviation from that gender expression.

It follows from this theory that someone who was assigned male but has a gender expression that society has decided is "female" will be uniquely hurt by sexism twice over, by virtue of being at the intersection of these two forms of oppression. And that group is also precisely the group at the bottom of the gender pay gap statistics! Awesome, the new theory can explain the observations, so we adopt it going forward.

I have a friend I know from when we were both 6. She is the only person living nearby and so she saw me go from walking through limping to wheelchair on a daily basis. I keep her updated on my health even tho we rarely hang out anymore. She was gonna come over yesterday and I had to cancel. She asked if I can’t hang out later that day. When I said i won’t feel better later, that if I feel that bad in the morning later will only get worse she got annoyed and “joked” that I’m just finding excuses. And I was surprised, she knows all about me being disabled after all? So, a bit taken aback, I told her it’s a normal thing for me.

“But you got the diagnosis now, aren’t you better?? I thought you’ll get better now”

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he's not just a wheelchair user but also an amputee. an above knee amputee. wheelchair users are already next to nonexistant in video games but amputees exist in this really...disheartening? spot where they're pretty much just reduced to "person with a cybernetic limb" - it's always just somewhere from "just a cool visual design" to flat out "superpower". I can't think of a video game amputee that is actually disabled by their limb differences - I'm all for futuristic worlds where prosthetics and other disability aids are far advanced from what they are now, but that's not really what's implied by these designs. They're just... Cool designs that in no way reflect on the real-world experience of being an amputee.

Look at Hephaestus, though. Look at that prosthetic. Whilst stylised it very much looks like it functions like common mechanical knees - knee bends when thigh is lifted, knee straightens when thigh is lowered. He's a wheelchair user as well as a prosthetic user - every prosthetic user I know is also a wheelchair user as a prosthetic is not usable in every occasion and also cause exhaustion and pain if used constantly.

Whilst we can't see much of his wheelchair the position he's sat in and the wheels very much evoke active wheelchair to me - this carries on to very specifically the thickness of his arms. Whilst a lot of Hades designs are muscular Hephaestus has very noticeably thick arms - which makes sense, as active wheelchairs require a lot of arm strength.

Mel appears to be autistic. She focuses entirely on her hyperfixation, and characterizes everyone around her based on that hyperfixation. People drop hints about what they think of her but Olympus above knows she's missing every single one. Says the most edgiest shit unironically and Naruto runs all over the place. She does the nectar trade thing cause of tradition, strongly implied that she doesn't realize the implications of her actions - ie. Moros likely developing a crush on her. She has not the slightest idea why Nemesis would even dislike the idea of her fighting Chronos (and missing most of the cues Nemesis makes suggesting she might worried for her very much Actually probably cause like Moros she has a crush???).

She is convinced people only want her around if she provides results, otherwise she is a failure. She is Mommy and Daddy issues Incarnate. Hints are being suggested she might become Awful Evil Grandpa's favorite descendant.She might've poisoned Nemesis at one point. It doesn't stop Nemesis from taking another nectar from her. She can be incredibly rude af sometimes reflectively. She thinks Scylla and the Sirens are ass. She starts oversharing at one point and gets her ass attacked cause of what she says. She tries to remedy it the next encounter but makes it worse actually. She gets mad if her jar of mushrooms is in the wrong spot. She calls sheep "piggies."

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.