Unironically tho, when I see a minority character allowed to be morally ambiguous in a movie, I cheer. It means they have reached a certain level of social acceptance that allows for a more full picture of their humanity.
No but whyyyyy is that so sexy?
And people who need to know someone IRL to accept their differences often don’t apply their acceptance to the larger group. The marginalized person just becomes "one of the good ones".
It made me cry too. So beautifully said. I tried looking for it on Instagram to send to my liberal Christian family members, but I can only find it from The Blaze and the like, who think it is a gotcha moment.
Yes, the motte and the bailey have to be superficially related to each other.
Like the new Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act. The motte is that we all want our appliances to be cheap. The bailey is removing all DOE energy standard requirements.
It's basically the Anakin Padme meme
This is like the old lady who swallowed a fly
Plato thought nobody under 30 should be allowed to study philosophy. Said it “does appalling harm” and “fills people with indiscipline”.
I.... kind of think he had a point?
Me too. Criticism from a leader inside the religion holds weight!
I think it's that Fetterman seemed authentic and people liked him at first. Now they won't be fooled again lol.
One story I remember is that a victim of the Columbine school shooting was supposedly shot after she was asked if she was a Christian. No word on the other 12 killed.
Narrative was very much that we were a victimized minority, which is ofc ridiculous in retrospect
"Persecution". Which included (working from my 8 year old self's memorirs) stories of Christians being executed for smuggling Bibles into Communist China, to not being allowed to use public money to fund Christian book clubs and magazines in schools.
Operation All The Bombs! (So sorry Allie Brosh)
I grew up in the 90s. My dad read the Left Behind books out loud to us after dinner. Alternating with stories of modern Christian "persecution".
To them, people getting their heads bitten off by locust isn't a horror story, it's a revenge fantasy.
Post-apocalyptic wasteland. A man sits by the fire and explains to two women: "But they are good for business!"
Ravish their huts and burn their maidens. --Cohen the Barbarian
I hate to hand it to Freud, but he was right about the narcissism of small differences.
Yes and why the biggest marks for AI are CEO types. Bullshit is their native tongue.
I just realized I have always seen Clippy as male. Not sure why!
A situation so common that my PT once yelled to the other PT about me "hey, it's the one who does the exercises at home!" The other PT came over to look at me.
Yeah why does AI get the fun jobs? The ones that make us grow and deepen.
I wanted Rosie the Robot to scrub my toilet so *I* can spend more time creating. Instead we have the opposite.
I have not set foot in a grocery store in years. Nevermore will I bumble through endless confusing aisles like a pack-donkey searching for feed while the smell of rotting flesh fills my nostrils and fluorescent lights sear my eyeballs and sappy love songs torture my ears. Grocery shopping is a multisensory living nightmare. There are services that will make someone else do it for me but I cannot in good conscience force a fellow soul through this gauntlet.
First, I never cook. I am all for self reliance but repeating the same labor over and over for the sake of existence is the realm of robots. I utilize soylent only at home and go out to eat when craving company or flavor. This eliminates a panoply of expensive tools and rotting ingredients I would need to spend an unconscionable amount of time sourcing, preparing, and cleaning.
It reminds me of the guy who created Soylent.
When Millennials were young, Evangelicals were environmentalists. I heard many sermons about Christians being "Good Stewards of the Earth"
So many science fiction stories based on "sentience with no recognizable language" and almost nothing on "language with no recognizable sentience".
MAYBE the Corvids inAdrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Memory.
Although not being a part of either culture, I would trust both Juggalos and Furries with my life.
So that's what they've been doing instead of more Ex Urbe Ad Astra? ... I'll allow it
I somehow missed out on Tehanu until the absolutely most devastatingly accurate point in my life. That book, man....
That's just Heinlein's Friday Jones, right? Not sure that is less shitty, but it's definitely A Thing
Remind me which book of Heinlein'a features a female main character who is gang raped in an early chapter and enthusiastic about sex with strangers like four pages later?
She may also have sex with her cousin because they were both as "horny as goats."
Asimov seemed almody unaware of women somehow? It reminds me of Tolkein in that way. I assume due to their jobs and/or social circles.
Yes, and Heinlein is the worst one for that. His women characters were just.. men with boobs.
As a female SF reader, authors are firmly divided into "understands and likes women" and the opposite.
Harlan Ellison is firmly in the former. Heinlein is in the latter.
