

Now I know this isn’t a new observation or anything and I never watched episode 9, but in 7 and 8 Rey felt like just as much of a Mary Sue as Luke did in the ot. Now the well worn observation is that Luke Skywalker is like, the textbook Marty Stu.
Now I know this isn’t a new observation or anything and I never watched episode 9, but in 7 and 8 Rey felt like just as much of a Mary Sue as Luke did in the ot. Now the well worn observation is that Luke Skywalker is like, the textbook Marty Stu.
Welcome to feminist media analysis. It’s an existing academic field and you can find books and YouTube videos on it (and it can go pretty deep into related topics).
One of my favorite examples was when the creators of Avatar the Last Airbender were deciding to create their sequel about the next avatar they decided to make their protagonist a woman and executives at nickelodeon complained that boys wouldn’t be able to relate to a female protagonist.
The explanation I’ve largely heard that makes sense to me is that women are taught women are generally expected to learn to empathathize with male protagonists whereas the inverse is much more optional. You have plenty of men who do get into wonder woman and she ra and korra, my childhood best friends are among them, but you also get a lot of men who don’t in a way where I can’t think of an inverse that I’ve seen
And part of the problem is that congress won’t govern. Everything has to be someone highly politics hot button issue with then and when it isn’t they’ll throw it in there anyways. And at this point when I hear bipartisan I ask myself who the democrats are letting get hurt in exchange for permission to operate the government.
Like, can you imagine a constitutional amendment passing today? Or something less difficult like a budget passing without any spite. The infrastructure act shouldn’t have been controversial. Following through on the agreements we made in exchange for Ukraine denuclearizing shouldn’t have been controversial. So now because everything is controversial the executive has to either expand their powers or do nothing, and by doing nothing they don’t get reelected and they don’t get what they want.
Ultimately this is a byproduct of decades of gerrymandering and obstructionism. But yeah it’s resulted in the most competitive position expanding its powers as well as the judiciary doing the same as they’ve realized they can say anything and do anything
It’s common for conservatives in majority groups to have the sort of experience that could imbue empathy for minorities and instead use it to argue for cracking down against them
I assume you mean DEI and not the drug enforcement agency, which is infamously bad. And the FCC has broad powers over broadcasters. That said this definitely feels like a reach of power. Like, this feels like the sort of thing I wouldn’t think they have the internal skill base to do.
Oh jeez I wonder if those two possibilities interact with each other. Fortunately universities in my state aren’t allowed to research such things anymore
I can’t wait for my employer to get in trouble for me being an engineer instead of some cishet white guy who can’t do algebra.
Yeah you don’t fuck with a conbi in Japan. They take those things seriously
Hey Canada! I’m pretty sure you fought us over Michigan and Ohio once. Come and take us please.
Yeah but the enemy of my enemy may not be my friend but they can be useful to ally with against our shared enemy.
Pence is awful. But I’ll admit, I read him wrong a decade ago. I thought he was a Christian dominionist first and likes American democracy and the constitution if he can have it as well. But when push came to shove he turned out to actually support American democracy more than Christian dominionism, a thing he definitely still believes in. He’s not a good person, but he seems to not be a fascist actually, so to him I apologize for assuming him to be one based on his prior words, actions, and general vibes.
Oh yeah, ngl sometimes I forget about sex work from the customer side… He absolutely is the sort to hire a bunch of night laborers for a party.
2016 me never would’ve believed pence would wind up adamantly the enemy of my enemy
I don’t believe that man can throw an orgy. I’m not even saying that like everyone who throws an orgy is cool, like I’ve done it before and I’m on fucking lemmy, some real losers can pull off an orgy. But Elon, not only does this go against his ex wife’s accounts of their college experiences, it’s also just like he’s too incel category loser. He thinks he’s suave, but not in a “has done things at band camp that the normies are way too awkward to even ask for” way, more of a weirdo asking everyone way
They also associate eco friendly consumer products with worse performance. And there’s an understandable reason here, low flow toilets are worse in many ways, and if you want to reduce the draw of a resistive heating appliance all you can do is wraken it’s effectiveness. Mind you ig hiu can better direct or preserve the heat you do beat the electrothermodynamic limit of 1 watt is 1 watt and all waste winds up as heat. But also heat pumps beat it too but they have limitations and inconveniences and while those are improving people rarely notice their electric bill went down nearly as strongly as they notice how long their clothes took to dry or how cold their home got
Yeah for how big is it? It’s so basic I’ve never considered it might be why some people aren’t getting laid. I’m more likely to assume someone doesnt shower than that they don’t flirt
Ok, then to be very clear, yes it matters a lot. I’m a slut. I’ve had an amount of casual and easy sex that it feels cringe talking about on the internet. I’m also married. I always start with flirtation and if someone doesn’t flirt back I stop. Because the alternative is to keep hitting on someone who may be uninterested, which is what creeps do. Theres a range of time that it’s ok to flirt without flirting back, but yeah if you dont initiate and you don’t reciprocate only creeps will ask you out
Not a problem, happens to all of us barrel sweep
That’s like saying you don’t put in job applications and are trying to figure out why you can’t find employment
This is one immigrant who is taking public handouts and having too many kids
As a native speaker yeah though depending on where I am I may assume a non native speaker because it’s an irregular adjective-noun pairing and I know that’s the sort of thing that trips people up