look at the fucking clouds

Something I notice is, when men discuss the manosphere, they either centre the reason boys fall down that pipeline on some inner weakness or defectiveness of the boy, ie. "they're just autistic weirdos who want rules for women because they can't get their dick wet," or they centre the reason on women, "feminism had made women too woke, mean and impossible to socialise with."

What I noticed while working is that every single little Tate goblin I had to work with had conservative parents, and I have never once seen that aspect of all this discussed. Boys will reflect the social norms they are raised in within their household. The biggest preventative for manosphere bullshit I saw in the boys I worked with was a dad who isn't a fuckwit and a household that isn't LARPing the 1960s.

project hail mary/17776 anyone?

Stances are taken. Debates are held. Alien top vs bottom discourse is being rapidly generated among the Eridians. It's like Omegaverse for them, but they don't have any genders at all, so what they think each gender's traits are is almost random. Who can reproduce with who is especially confused

It has somehow been decided males are both larger (by what metric depends how deep into HumanTalk you are), more permissive, and have worse senses (which one is unclear). It's all up for debate, often depending on which one you think is which gender. Either females have thin hair or long hair, or it varies, depending on your team of course. Sometimes someone reads a translated journal article and deposits a factoid to "decide things once and for all." They've made "are you male or female" quizzes, and the biodome staff are hinting at their opinions in the forums

Considering I am a fiber worker and I also advocate for leather over all plastics, I feel qualified to make a few not-out-of-place assumptions.

1: there is probably some sort of plant on their planet, that no matter what, if it has metals in it or not, is likely able to be used in the same way that flax is. Plus animal pelts (Rocky’s little toolbelt in the movie very much looked like leather) and they might even have a way of cloning Grace’s hair cells and skin cells into fiber for stuffing things or holding stuff together (human hair is not good for spinning but it’s very good for weaving so if they made SUUUUUUPER long lines of it they could make rugs and wall hangings and stuff that doesn’t go right on the skin for Grace) but also, you can make a linen type cloth with it.

So. What I’m saying. Is that when Grace mentions that humans prefer soft and we don’t like rough textures on our skin, Eridians would find a way to make him ‘linen’ cloths and leather couches and beds with fur pelts (if the fur proves soft enough) covered in ‘linen’ sheets for him.

He’s gonna have a soft life and I refuse to let anyone ignore the process of easy fiber production at their fiber tips.

Hot take I think Grace should mention that bamboo (yes, bamboo, it’s literally so popular in the fiber community) can grow super fast and also it’s as soft and fine as silk when you process it, (it is, it very much is, I’m not anti-silk in any way, tho I prefer that cocoons are harvested after the moth escapes personally, like a popular fiber blend to find is called bambino, which I know means child in Italian, but it’s also a mixture of bamboo fiber and merino wool) and I just think that if the Eridian’s wish upon a star a handful of bamboo seeds will appear in their laps and they can grow massive amounts of bamboo and also a sheep will appear idk.

computa...........................

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