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Thank you, federation, for bringing libs to our lair once again.
They really always default to the same fucking shit “BOT! XINNIE THE POOH!” like an actual NPC 
Thank you, federation, for bringing libs to our lair once again.
They really always default to the same fucking shit “BOT! XINNIE THE POOH!” like an actual NPC
It’s worse than this. That lib is a Wheel of Time nerd.
I don’t even want to get near that hornet’s nest, not this time. WoT’s fandom gives the ASOFAI fandom a run for its money for toxic tribalistic bullshit.
They’re all old. Just push them over and run away.
I’d have to check my chromosomes to see if I have the gender essentialist magic that allows me to push them over
it’s distilled through the lens of modern anglo bullshit so it’s not great on gender but a lot of wheel of time draws from norse mythology, including the gender-bendy parts. calling it gender essentialist is a pretty shallow read
Pretty much all fiction draws from something else. That doesn’t automatically give anything a pass, and calling it a “shallow read” implies that if I read it deeply I would automatically approve of its ideology. The Peterson Maneuver is kind of in bad taste.
EDIT: Also, saying “actually the gender magic isn’t essentialist because genders can shift like in Norse mythology” still doesn’t remove the fact that magic is gender coded in a contrived way from the start in the metaphysics of the fiction. A similar excuse could be made of Gygax’s establishment of racism with essentialist characterstics in D&D where creatures could shift to different races by magical means (such as the druid reincarnation spell, but not exclusive to that) but orcs are nonetheless “born evil” and it’s a “good act” to kill them no matter the circumstances.
You’re allowed to like it, but accusing people of being “shallow” in their reading if they don’t agree with you is a lot like accusing people of “taking
out of context” if they don’t nod along to everything Professor Lobster says.
Compare Discworld, which has strongly gendered magic but is made very clear that it’s a cultural construct and anyone can learn either mode (or both, though generally not at once) if they have the right mindset and inclination.
Thank you for making that example.
there’s an explicitly trans male character that channels the appropriate magic. he’s considered the weird woman who channels male magic until it’s dropped that satan literally cursed him to live as a woman. it’s a very binary gender system but if you’re going to have eternal souls, it’s not an awful way to handle trans characters. there’s a lot wrong with the gender politics and Jordan sucks ass at writing women so there’s much riper targets to criticize the series over than this.
I feel better informed about that; I didn’t get that far. I still don’t have to like the series overall (the fandom tends to really put me off) but I appreciate your post.
Love to have a cis man come at me about what is and isn’t gender essentialism because he perceives me as being a treat defender and therefore the target of his life’s vendetta.
Calling it a shallow read doesn’t imply anything of the sort. As others pointed out in more detail than me, there are better places to critique the books and how they handle gender. Which is the point of what I wrote.
I fucking knew when I wrote that reply I’d get an arrogant, condescending reply like this. I don’t like the vibe you’ve brought to hexbear since you’ve been here, and I will not reply further.
You took a criticism of a piece of fiction as an attack on yourself. When I talk about “treat defending” that tends to be what I’m talking about: when people identify with a consumer product to the point that they feel attacked personally if that product is criticized.
If you’re going to do that, that leaves no room for discussing (and especially not criticizing) the product outside of mandatory agreement with you.
EDIT:
I criticized a piece of fiction, not you or your identity. By contrast, you did directly make this about personal attacks on my character, and by your own admission, you’ve maintained that hostility for some time now.
Sounds like Star Citizen’s big spenders. There was some le steak dinner party set up by the grifting company (so the big spenders would get exclusive access to yet another fucking internet spaceship jpeg sale), and the photos that the attendees send back to try to flex showed a room full of dumpy old white men. No one I could see was younger than, maybe, 45, and they were so, so white. One even had a fucking top hat because le irony.
Hasn’t that game been in development since 2010? So the dumpy 45-year old was at one point a slightly less dumpy 30-something who presumably had some disposable income to throw at a cool kickstarter game.
The le epic steak dinner was, I think, about 5 years ago. SO we can split the difference about how old the gamedads were when they got their sunk costs going.
Fuck that is bleak to think about
Mardoniush smooths her skirts in concern
At least with haven’t gotten to braid tugging yet, that’s when shit pops off.