Acknowledging this fact is literal kryptonite to most working class Americans. Their brains literally cannot wrap their heads around this reality, because it shatters what they think about their status/place in the world
Asha going "hey why don't we try to build something lasting and make our lives better for once" and Euron going "how about instead we just keep indulging all our worst impulses forever" and the people all choosing Euron was very believable. That was published in 2005, too!
Generations are mostly a fake concept, except when a historic event like WWII actually creates a stark dividing line in lived experience based on age. COVID was one of those events, and yet we're not allowed to change where the line is because of some Salon thinkpiece in 2016.
Friend recently told me their gf books multiple reservations weeks in advance with no intention of going just in case she wants use them (and that this is apparently a common practice) and it kinda broke something inside me
c*s people burn books, let AIDS kill all our elders, invent dystopian sci-fi tech to ensure we never lay eyes on a trans woman in our entire lives and then they'll turn around and say "but how did it take you sooooo long to realize you're trans"
paradox choosing not to depict the holocaust in some fashion in hoi4 might actually have been one of the most damaging and lasting effects they'll have on the world
being trans allows you to people-watch society in new and unique ways and one of the more interesting things i have noticed since transitioning is that straight men and straight women seem to be dating more out of necessity/obligation than love
Ways in which the BBC refers to the trans girl, who was seventeen at the time of the incident:
“transgender activist”
“trans activist”
“teenage trans woman”
“the complainant”
“a biological male who identifies as a woman”
Not once is a personal pronoun used to refer to her.