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i wish we were able to talk about women's rights without someone mentioning how much they do or don't want to have sex with them. i don't care if you're a lesbian Stop finding worth in women purely from their perceived attractiveness

"I think women should not be expected to shave for societal respect / to avoid discrimination" "yeah🤤 i love bush" ok well that's not what we're talking about is it.

i hate how many posts about trans women deserving respect always devolve into "I love girldick" or "trans rights but I don't want to date a trans person" because that's entirely unrelated to the topic at hand. you should not respond to feminism with "YESSS I loveeee you because I see you as nothing but a sex object" you people sound like other men I get stuck talking with that end up saying "free the nipple so I can see boobies in public" and thinking they're feminists. why can't we just respect women regardless of your attraction to them or not. why does it need to be brought up in every conversation regarding their rights

Not now, kitten, m- da- m- your parental figure is in the middle of a gender crisis

first in my bloodline to read this much gay fanfiction

first in my bloodline to write this much gay fanfiction

It's also fun to have conversations with "people with too much money or desiring money cause so many problems, so we could make the world better by eliminating money" guys and you start asking basic questions about how product and service creation and distribution would work in their system and they quickly end up reinventing money but calling it something different.

In the Wayfarer Series, the human refugee space stations don't have money (they can do this because they're relatively small and socially organised and basic essentials are provided to everyone for free, so it's not really a big deal if a barter fails or is inconveniently labyrinthine) and that system's started failing in later generations because they've become exposed to societies that do use money. The instant somebody who uses money shows up with exciting things to trade, money itself becomes a valuable barter good (you can trade it with those foreigners for cool stuff). And once you've got something convenient to carry and store (physically or digitally) that only has value in barter, and everyone knows of its value in barter (how much cool shit the foreigners will give you for the coin), the local unofficial adoption of the coin is pretty much inevitable even if you somehow haven't adopted some other stable item as a local barter currency in the meantime.

I know we've moved far past this point, but my historian ass needs to emphasize that so so many people got killed over cows. When the most valuable thing you own is an animal that can walk off, shockingly enough there's a lot of incentive to sneak in and convince your neighbor's cow to leave with you and similar incentive to violently prevent it.

call me terminally academia-brained but i do think a lot of the fun of character analysis is figuring out how to build a compelling argument for a particular reading using lines of evidence from canon as well as meta/intertextual support

and you could say that what i’m saying here is basically “a lot of the fun of doing character analysis is doing character analysis” but let’s be real a lot of fandom character analysis is pretty heavily vibes-based. and i think that’s where i really chafe up against the traditional thought-terminating fandom attitude of like, everyone’s opinions hold equal weight and any interrogation of that is inherently hostile. because i think it’s fascinating to dig into where others are coming from in terms of their views on characters or dynamics or whatever, especially when they differ significantly from more commonly expressed views, and part of that digging is asking people okay what parts of canon are you drawing from to support your opinion? what parts of canon are you disregarding or downplaying? how does this argument hold up in the light of how race, gender, class, ability, etc. operate both in the piece’s in-fiction and real world contexts?