TitaniumButterfly
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TitaniumButterfly
2d ago
This analysis pleases me.
TitaniumButterfly
3d ago
We all have complimentary roles to play for one another.
I really think the barrier to people accepting this (obviously correct) perspective is that while there are many, many, many important things that men can generally do better than women, there's almost nothing that women can do better than men except that it has to do with bearing and raising children. In which case they do shine!
But people notice this and fundamentally flinch away from the idea, because our entire generation has been raised to hate it and find it low-status.
I don't believe that Tolkien generally has female characters campaigning with men. My impression is that outside of a few extreme outliers such as Galadriel, women in Tolkien's works are mainly apt to fight only when left undefended, such as when their men are away at war, or perhaps in a situation where defeat means annihilation of their people anyway.
Definitely don't get the impression that Tolkien's works are full of girlboss fighters who run around being warriors most of the time. Rather, like reality, they contain a few outlier women who are somewhat capable of standing their ground in desperate moments, but would really prefer not to unless absolutely necessary.
It helps to remember that the movies changed this up a bit; a lot of Arwen's badassery in the movie was actually Glorfindel in the books.
Luthien's an odd case to be sure, and I've never been quite sure what to make of her as a character. In any case she's definitely an extreme outlier.
TitaniumButterfly
3d ago
just make it legal for veterinarians to treat consenting humans. Give them immunity for malpractice for anything below gross negligence -- if you want to get a million dollar payout by convincing a jury that a doctor treated you wrong, you should have gone to a hooman hospital.
This idea is absurd and I love it even though I can't imagine what second and third-order effects it would have.
TitaniumButterfly
3d ago
It really does surprise me that we don't see more people snap and retaliate directly. Presumably the demographics most likely to do that are also the ones most likely to get free healthcare in the first place.
TitaniumButterfly
5d ago
Yes, extremely, though he is also very busy.
TitaniumButterfly
9d ago
That's just normies being bad at decoupling.
I don't really see much to engage with here; your assertions are packaged in such a way as to discourage careful consideration and it would probably be helpful for you to clearly articulate a thesis.
For example,
We have seen deliberate attempts to smudge together all vaccines into one monolithic product and doctrine.
Just don't know what to make of this. That sounds kinda like something I could believe, but it's vague enough that I can't exactly go find out more or argue, can I? Except to say that I'm not sure I have seen that, no. Perhaps someone will demonstrate it at some point, in which case I'll likely adopt the position and also be upset about the matter.
Also you seem to be a single-issue poster which indicates crankery in general. Leaves me less interested in investing in understanding whatever it is you're trying to say.
TitaniumButterfly
26d ago
Thanks, TIL
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
I think it arose because Capital demanded that it arise.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
I'd rather have seen a section from Aristophanes' Assemblywomen if we were doing this.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Solid point and I accept it, though in this case my reasoning is more that "Once those problems are solved we'll be back in a position to deal with the others." It's a sort of faith in my heritage.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
And so we're back around to the subject of the OP.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Honestly never heard of him. But he has short stories which are enticing as a sample. Really I'd like more good apostolic Christian sci fi.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
The way I remember it, having been there and very leftist at the time, was a lot of the people around me saying we must vote for Obama because he is black and it's time to stop electing white men; that regardless of how one feels about him personally, the importance of electing a black man is paramount for other reasons.
If a primary movement has racial under and in this case overtones, it's not a surprise that the backlash does as well.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
What word would you like me to use to describe someone who believes that politicians are importing brown people to replace the white race, and all the attendant beliefs that normally swirl around that one?
Nationalist
What word would you like me to describe someone who thinks that Trump should have power to do X, Y and Z regardless of their legality without resorting to what you see as slurs?
Authoritarian nationalist
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Banned one hour for use of emojis.
I'm emoji-prone myself but think this is probably a correct standard for this site. Did it become official at some point?
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Just for clarification, I'm reading this as 'doesn't intend to impose costs...'
Yeah, I think that's probably true. Happens all the time, but not with that conscious intent.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
For this reason women are also responsible for the vast majority of accidents. They're generally-worse drivers. Men just happen to be specifically worse in the one category which also generates the highest-value damage.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Not interested in engaging here but I did want to compliment your excellent use of 'farrago.'
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
There's a goldilocks zone between "obnoxiously poisoned by leftism" and "Randian libertarian blowhard" in SciFi.
...I haven't exactly found it yet, but it has to be there.
Heinlein's cocktail of beliefs is at least bizarre enough to be more entertaining than irritating.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Again I'd like to point out that the author's proposal is to simply repeal antidiscrimination laws pertaining to sex, which is a much more reasonable objective than dispensing with smartphones, the relevance of which I can't figure out regardless.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
I don't recognize the latter name so couldn't say. But again there's a lot of Branson I didn't read so I wouldn't be shocked if I missed or just forgot about the age of consent angle, which... is interesting to think about, I guess, but never productive to discuss ime. So I'd have pretty much screened it out anyway.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Oh, was that Julius Branson of Powerology fame? I didn't associate age of consent stuff with him but then I didn't read most of what he wrote. He did show up on a mutual discord server for a while though.
How would you distinguish this from the qualifier I already employed, which was 'important'?
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