@rvgsdelight The author acknowledging an entrenched patriarchy and oppression doesn’t need to lead to a moral lesson and does not mean your female protagonist will succeed or is worthy of succeeding. Writing isn’t exactly amazing on the show but it’s above undergrad tier activismslop
People naturally strive fanatically for individuation, self expression, mastery, liberation, and to chance to distinguish themselves. Anyone I’ve ever met who was in a communal living situation only did so out of desperation or obligation and wanted to get out of it ASAP.
I’ve basically come around to the idea that liberalism is deeply unnatural to human psychology, which evolved in the context of communal living. It's the "delicate fruit of a mature civilization" as Acton put it, and takes constant effort to preserve
Chinese PHD student asks Nolan if he Christiniazed The Odyssey’s Greek morals and why he changed Oddyseus emotional journey while Jimmy Fallon does Cyclops Beer Pong with The Oddsey cast
george rr martin doesn't understand his own lore. robert's rebellion wasn't caused by kidnapping lyanna stark, it was caused by long-run structural factors like a shift of the productive core from the crownlands to the reach, and clashes between merchants and landowners
“The Thesselonian you're fighting... he's the biggest man I've ever seen. I wouldn't want to fight him for socio-economic reasons”
“That’s why no-one will trade with you along the Hellespont strait and Black Sea routes or related Bronze Age metal-exchange networks in coastal Luwian Western Anatolia, Alashiya and Canaan”
When the roman legions started doing this instead of getting drenched in bulls blood for Mars they immediately started losing every single battle to dudes names Gunther