#+authority

obviously other things are also happening but it is a very funny tonal jump to go from annihilation’s “you are becoming a part of this hostile landscape. you are participating in a transformation to which you cannot consent. the biological processes you’ve devoted your life to studying are going to consume you. when you signed up for this suicide mission you must have known you were never going to leave this place the same way you entered it. how much of you is still human? how much of you ever was?” to authority’s “guy with mommy issues engages in passive aggressive corporate power play”

What is often identified as a mental health problem in women is, in many cases, simply the absence of a male authority figure to guide them, supervise them, provide them with security, and, above all, protect them from anything that harms them.