HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
12d ago
And then the characters make some offhand comment about a magic spell that lets you switch gender which certain people who were "born in the wrong body" use to cure their condition. And then MC from Earth explains how in our world those people are oppressed and everyone shakes their heads about how unenlightened that is.
Surefire giveaway that the author is trans themselves, or at least moves in social circles where they have to interact with a lot of them. Really common in recent years for some reason.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
15d ago
no-gay-guy-would-wear-this setup
One of those "Federal Breast Inspector" T-shirts.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
15d ago
A Pride flag plus a "Black Lives Matter" sign is pretty much obligatory for every business in a "hipster" neighborhood. Just means "We support $CURRENT_THING". Reminds me of Havel's greengrocer.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
19d ago
Alex Jones is a professional liar. If anyone deserves to be unpersoned, he does.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
28d ago
Back in the eighties, Benetton (anyone remember them?) were running ads that had nothing to do with clothes, with pictures of some random African kid. I still don't know what the message there was supposed to be.
Were I ever to embrace Christianity, it would be Lewis' libertarian version:
"One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons—marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema [or porn??]; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning."
Lewis, C. S.. Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis Signature Classics) (pp. 78-79). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
Such a contrast with the sects of which Handmaid's Tale is an exaggerated version.
One can make a case, however, from Screwtape Letters that Lewis would have thought video games inspired by Satan!
"Now just as we pick out and exaggerate the pleasure of eating to produce gluttony, so we pick out this natural pleasantness of change and twist it into a demand for absolute novelty. This demand is entirely our workmanship. If we neglect our duty, men will be not only contented but transported by the mixed novelty and familiarity of snowdrops this January, sunrise this morning, plum pudding this Christmas. Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeed hopscotch as regularly as autumn follows summer. Only by our incessant efforts is the demand for infinite, or unrhythmical, change kept up. This demand is valuable in various ways. In the first place it diminishes pleasure while increasing desire. The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the law of diminishing returns. And continued novelty costs money, so that the desire for it spells avarice or unhappiness or both. And again, the more rapacious this desire, the sooner it must eat up all the innocent sources of pleasure and pass on to those the Enemy forbids."
Lewis, C. S.. The Screwtape Letters (pp. 136-137). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
"He made the pleasures: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one."
... maybe through the vicarious bloodlust of GTA or Postal, they finally succeeded??
Lewis, C. S.. The Screwtape Letters (p. 44). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
Gone with the Wind
Atlas Shrugged. Dagny Taggart could be seen as a prototype girlboss.
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