re: apropos of nothing, my opinions on (not reviews of) all the star wars movies
@aescling i think we have very different ideas of what constitutes good direction lol
this is bugging me all of a sudden, religion, sexism
@Moss@friend.camp anybody who has studied the history of feminism in the West knows that its successes are largely due to:
1. the political advantages offered in democratic societies to allowing a large number of women to vote (thus increasing the voter base), and
2. the political stresses during wartime when men have been unavailable to perform necessary labour on account of being overseas at war
the middle east is, by and large, a colonized region, not a colonizing one. it hasn't been given the opportunity to develop the same kinds of democratic structures (due to constant invasion) and hasn't had an equivalent of “sending all the men overseas for WWII”. so it's not surprising that feminism there hasn't played out the same way.
nothing to do with religion; it's frankly irrelevant to the conversation in light of these much bigger factors, most of which have been the result of offences by Christian nations
it's very nefarious to continually and perpetually act in ways which weaken the cause of feminism in the Middle East and then hold oneself up as the more feminist one
@aescling unfortunately the gays are afraid of crossdressing fics
@aescling @KitRedgrave « According to J. F. Hecker's 1844 book, The Epidemics of the Middle Ages, citing an unnamed medical textbook, a nun who lived in a French convent during an unspecified time in the Middle Ages inexplicably began to meow like a cat, shortly leading the other nuns in the convent to meow as well. Eventually, all of the nuns in the convent would meow together for a certain period, leaving the surrounding community astonished. This did not stop until the police threatened to whip the nuns. » https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases
@KitRedgrave i keep telling people we should bring the cat nuns back
@aescling also did you get to the gay yet
@aescling cat gf, same question
@aescling semi-mislabeled; european pokémon anime uses english as the source not japanese so it is the original in that sense
it’s rare that i don’t read a fic solely on the basis of word choice but when you put both this and « smirked back » in the fic summary that’s a big dnf from me
@aescling like just watch it and i guarantee you will forget all about sonic the hedgehog 2
@aescling if you haven't seen it, it's on netflix and will make you feel so much better about the state of family-friendly movies in 2022
@clayote@cybre.space i think degree programs are good, in that they ensure you have a well-rounded understanding of a subject area and are designed by people more knowledgeable than you (one of the problems which college solves is that students often do not know which things they need to study; a degree program offers a structure for ensuring they get the necessary things)
i am not sure i can justify them from an economic standpoint. i think they should be made free
@aescling compare The Mitchells vs. the Machines, which is primarily about dismantling the nuclear family myth to build something better in its place
@aescling i don't think it's possible to make a movie about upholding the nuclear family without making a movie about eliminating threats to the nuclear family
@aescling “he has sexually harassed women”
it’s pretty sparse atm but https://j-li.kibi-folk.works/:bns/ is now on the internet
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