TitaniumButterfly
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TitaniumButterfly
2d ago
"Mental health" is not a species wide mission to prevent bad feelings from happening. Especially when the given circumstances would naturally provoke negative feelings. But this is yet another wonderful biproduct of the culture war; bad feelings have become pathologized as a) horribly disturbing and never to be expected b) worthy of full and unquestioning accommodation by ALL others and c) probably both someone else's fault and responsibility to deal with.
IMO this is society's brain on women.
But seriously. I've been told over and over again (by women) that their feelings are their truth. I've also observed many times that they tend to expect everyone else to treat their feelings as a priority and rarely seem interested in taking responsibility for managing those feelings or taking initiative to behave in such a way as to get better outcomes.
How many run-ins with HR must a man have before he recognizes the pattern?
I'm not trying to be incendiary or run afoul of the rules here but from where I'm standing this is just blatantly, obviously what's going on.
TitaniumButterfly
3d ago
Here you go. Timestamped!
TitaniumButterfly
4d ago
He called the local game commission who told him that it didn't exist and that shooting it would be against the law.
I've received similar admonitions from government on other matters.
TitaniumButterfly
4d ago
That's the second strong recommendation I've had for Blue Prince. The first told me to go in as blind as possible so I know almost nothing else about it except that it should indulge my predilection for keeping a hard copy journal as I play.
Guess I will!
TitaniumButterfly
4d ago
Yeah, idk when the realization hit exactly, but the day was odd when it occurred to me that we would no longer be allowing Disney anything in our home. At least nothing made after the year 2000, with the occasional ad hoc exception.
TitaniumButterfly
4d ago
Andor was actively incredible though
Haven't looked into it at all. I know redditors who enjoy it immensely so I assumed it was pretty soy.
Lewis's Space Trilogy does a pretty excellent job, I think.
TitaniumButterfly
4d ago
Sam Hyde has some advice about this.
TitaniumButterfly
4d ago
Yes, it's this exactly. I used to dream about the prequel and sequel trilogies coming out. Had one where I found the sequels in the store and was gobsmacked that they'd made it to home video without me hearing about their release, etc.
Then the prequels came out and I was fairly disappointed but fundamentally tolerant. Then the sequels came out and, well, I still haven't seen the last one, and should be surprised if I ever do.
Rogue One scratched the itch though.
TitaniumButterfly
4d ago
He's LDS at any rate.
TitaniumButterfly
4d ago
LeGuin started strong but then became consciously feminist and repudiated her earlier work.
I recall her describing how embarrassed she felt in retrospect at making Ged a man, as though a male hero should be the default.
Defer to people in positions of authority
Well, women, anyway.
TitaniumButterfly
4d ago
I hate everything, but I like Bluey.
TitaniumButterfly
4d ago
glazing
Why have I never seen this word before this week, and yet like eighteen references in the last few days, each of which is presented in such a way as to help normalize it? Is this a psyop?
I don't think we had a lexical gap here. I don't think a new word is called for, and if it were, I definitely don't think it should be that one. Nothing about this feels organic or warranted.
TitaniumButterfly
5d ago
Thanks. For some reason doing that just felt impossibly onerous.
TitaniumButterfly
6d ago
There are worlds in books, and I care to return to visit some of those on occasion. Why ever re-visit a place you've traveled when there are other places?
I think we have been trained to associate the word 'hate' with low status, by people who have much to gain from our reflexive aversion to it. Those whom we should hate, i.e.
TitaniumButterfly
6d ago
I think it's a real problem that our culture has conflated racism and bigotry.
If racism is rational, it's not bigoted, and it's not clear why it should be a bad thing.
When did we decide that hatred is always inappropriate? Or that it can't be tempered by compassion?
I should hate the tiger that is trying to eat me. I can also respect it and wish it well in other circumstances.
First things first, though.
TitaniumButterfly
7d ago
Oh goodness gracious.
TitaniumButterfly
8d ago
Listening to The White Company on audible. Loving the setting and prose, even if the characters are a bit hard for me to distinguish, and the narrator is... not consistent enough in volume and some of his accents are borderline-impenetrable, which is not usually a problem for me.
Also he's incredibly slow, and while changing the speed fixed that, something about his cadence makes it difficult for me to follow along without losing attention.
But when it's good it reminds me of Pyle's Robin Hood in the best ways, except more rooted in the beauty and wildness of the setting.
All that said I went in blind and was expecting history, not historical fiction, so that was an adjustment.
TitaniumButterfly
8d ago
Very well-said. The thing about inviting cleansing fire is that it's not exactly discriminate.
TitaniumButterfly
8d ago
I'd appreciate some followup on Ride the Tiger. Never quite got into it and thought a (good) intro might be helpful.
TitaniumButterfly
8d ago
It is definitely very 60s in its view of sexuality.
There's a lot of deep Heinlein no one talks about. The Door Into Summer flirts with some odd subjects, and Glory Road gets kind of out there, but probably nothing tops Farnham's Freehold.
TitaniumButterfly
8d ago
I'm feeling called out, but never actually said it was a grammar mistake.
What's particularly Nazi-like about it? I'd associate that more with communists though I guess Nazis were prone to it as well.
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