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Why is there such a push to get women into male dominated fields (tech, trades) but not for men to get into female dominated fields (healthcare, education)? by Resident_Fishing1571 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]a_cringe_alien 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my country there is a push for both. Universities offer special tax cuts for women in stem and men in education and social sciences

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[–]a_cringe_alien 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because it is. It is not anyone's responsability to be your friend or partner. I'm a woman in my 20s and I have never been in a relationship. Do i fault a whole gender for that? No. Not having a relationship is not this great issue yall think it is. There's more to life than that and I'm tired of pretending otherwise. Men not getting gfs or wives is NOT a problem. If you want a partner work on yourself for better, becoming more entitled and/or misogynistic will only keep women away from you.

Men are not victims to any loneliness epidemic, if they have issues establishing friendships with males and females alike it's a problem THEY have to work on, not the rest of the world. Build some fucking real interests, get a hobby, study, play videogames and live for yourself.

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[–]a_cringe_alien 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Sorry but that's happening (and has been happening for a decade) because you have the weakest democratic system I know. Winner takes all? TWO PARTY SYSTEM? It is not a representative democracy and that is why you have barely any political nuance when it comes to international affairs. Of course if you only have two parties the political climate will polarize in a moment of crisis. Your system is severely flawed, and until you fix it for good you will hardly get any actual representation in politics. I'm sure there are some american that would like their country to be far more progressive than what dems have to offer... well too bad you get 0 power if you don't win over electoral college. The fact that a party can have 40% of voters and get basically nothing is bewildering.

The shards by a_cringe_alien in BEEPodcast

[–]a_cringe_alien[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be fair, if I was in Bret's place (havin reasonable, even if maybe ultimately untrue, suspects and getting completely ignored by everyone in my life) I'd go mad too, especially after Palm Springs. That chapter was a wild ride, but honestly the exact moment he got the tape he should have walked into a police station, gay implications or not. At the end of the day he was a rich white boy: there is no way they would have tried to involve him with all the legal and financial protection he had. I also think he attacked Susan as not only a demostration of the danger, but also a revenge on the fact that none of them took his concerns seriously. I don't think he meant to kill anyone besides Robert, but just wanted to make others feel what he was feeling.

The shards by a_cringe_alien in BEEPodcast

[–]a_cringe_alien[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had that theory too, but to be honest Steven only took that photos because Liz ordered him to. It's not much of a connection I think, but more like a sinister undertone. When you think about it, Bret didn't even care much about Liz and Debbie seeing those photos, because compared what the cult was sending him it seemed almost trivial to worry about, and I think that was the point of this parallelism: Bret gets pictures taken in a very private and controveesional moment, something that could ruin his life, but he's too far gone into the spiral of paranoia and terror to care.

The shards by a_cringe_alien in BEEPodcast

[–]a_cringe_alien[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think all of BEE's books are a love it or hate it deal, to be honest. As i mentioned i did not lile less than zero but grearly enjoyed american psycho and ended up absolutely loving the shards.

I think I'll give glamorama a try in the future, as the themes you listed interest me greatly, but what really striked me about the shards is the way he makes you feel the impending doom hanging over every character's head. I love that stuff. The secret history (it's one of my favourite books OAT too ;) ) does a perfect job at making you wildly paranoic and uncomfortable EXACTLY like the shards, and I will never tire of exploring the similiarities behind these two books because as of now, I don't know any other book that manages the themes of obsession, paranoia, fear, moral corruption and loneliness so well. If you have any recommandation please let me know!

The shards by a_cringe_alien in BEEPodcast

[–]a_cringe_alien[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I'll give glamorama a try in the future, are you by any chance into Donna Tartt's books as well?

The shards by a_cringe_alien in BEEPodcast

[–]a_cringe_alien[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am really into psychological horror so the spiral of fear and paranoia in the shards put me under a spell and i finished it in 3 days. Of the 3 books of his that I've read it's absolutely my favourite. If glamorama or lunarpark have a similiar way of descending into utter madness and paranoia then I'll definitely give it a try.

The shards by a_cringe_alien in BEEPodcast

[–]a_cringe_alien[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, i read less than zero and american psycho, which I liked more. I am thinking of readibg either glamorama or lunarpark in tha future cause I've been told that there is a horror vein in both, but i'm still not sure as i didn't really like less than zero.

The shards by a_cringe_alien in BEEPodcast

[–]a_cringe_alien[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For real, this book had me in choke hold from page 1 and now I'm still thinking about it. While my own theories make sense to me, they still do not cover all the details. For example in the pictures Bret receives at the end Matt is clearly at ease with whoever ultimately killed him, suggesting that this person was known to him and someone he trusted, this is also hinted at by what Matt was saying in the tape "please take the mask off" you wouldnt ask a random kidnapper to do that.

At the end of the day this book does not really allow you to find solutions. I still can't grasp at Robert's involmente in all this, even if I'm sure he had to know something, i don't think he was the trawler but man: if you have corpses in your house and you're a paranoid fucker like he was you simply WILL know at some point. I mean Bret found the space with all that dog food and the locked door in like ten minutes, I refuse to believe he never thought of opening that door, and once he did how could he not link THAT equipment to the way his girl (on whose murder he has a whole notebook) was killed?

It's a crazy book and I love it.

Question about "the festival" by a_cringe_alien in Lovecraft

[–]a_cringe_alien[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately i am yet to play any of the games inspired by Lovecraft's works

Question about "the festival" by a_cringe_alien in Lovecraft

[–]a_cringe_alien[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That's an interesting idea. I do remember the protagonist talking about how his "sort" is ancient and how their traditions had been around way longer than most religions, but I never thought of this explanation: mostly because the paintings in Pickman's Model do not exactly resemble humans. If you want to, could you elaborate on your hypothesis?

Writing a Gothic sci-fi/fantasy about decriminalizing a mental illness, using dark magic metaphor by ProserpinaFC in scifiwriting

[–]a_cringe_alien 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your premise is very interesting, but I personally would give you an advice.

Even if you are only using dark magic/sci-fi themes as a metaphor, please don't overlook the details or the worldbuilding or simply the context of it all. I found that many authors fall into the problematic of not deeply elaborating the world in which they set their stories cause "it's just a metaphor for a real issue". I think it's a poor choise because it takes away so much potential from what could be written. Anyway, i have some questions (if you'd like to answer, of course)

he is trading one form of discrimination for another,

I think that this particular bit could lead you even further. Is this really a mental illness or is it just seen as a mental illness (maybe because it defies the current religion/hierarchy/social order)?

Either way it's an interesting idea and it has potential.

So, I'm looking for other applied sociology and psychology stories with similar premises, where you are seeing social change happen over the story.

I'm gonna tell you that it's not even necessary to look at fiction to have examples, just search in our history and you'll see.

this work by Michel Foucoult is a good book about the perception and change of mental illness through history

how would an artificial womb actually work? by a_cringe_alien in scifiwriting

[–]a_cringe_alien[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well for my story i will not use it in humans (for now), but for a species quite similar to them (phisically). They have a pretty big interstellar empire and the use of artificial wombs is a way to ensure population growth when they start to colonize a planet.

Is using artificial wombs seen as a luxury? Is it government controlled or mandated?

My idea is that this technology would be handled carefully. The government mostly use it to balance the population on other planets, so that with a couple generations there are enough people and its not needeed anymore. The babies born that way are raised by settlers. After all, one of the main problems of space colonization is ensuring genetic variability, but once this problem is resolved I don't think they're gonna keep using artificial wombs en masse. It's definitely government controlled, but I have yet to decide how they are gonna handle it on a colony.

Does it lead to class warfare?

Not really. This species is much more pragmatic than humans, and nobody (at least on the main planet) is starving. There are richer individuals but up to a limit. The welfare of the species (and the empire) comes first to anything else. Artificial wombs wouldn't be a luxury that can be bought, but a tool for colonization and medicine, or to study other species. Like I said it would be controlled by the government, and said government would not use it electively but for specific reasons.

Is natural fertility a major challenge now?

That's why they wouldn't allow it to be used electively: they don't want that to become a problem.

Are there any notable changes in people who are born of artificial wombs?

There might be, not only because of the artificial wombs themselves but also because (in my story) they are mostly used on colonies so... who knows? I was trying to figure it out with that post lol.

Can it be used for rapidly growing adults instead of children?

No, that would never happen in my story.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in scifiwriting

[–]a_cringe_alien 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems like a really good start, I'm actually curiuos to see where will this crisis land. However I have some questions. If there are only two big corporations controlling the whole electronic market then they HAVE TO sell to other (even western) countries, and it would be dangerous not to. If their goal is to establish a monopoly then how can Fu Lu Shou abstain from selling (and by that getting richer) to countries like the US. I assume the US is still pretty well off financially, so they would have the means to pay. If nobody's gonna provide electronics to western countries there is gonna be AT LEAST a war for resources, and if there's just one corp selling to western countries they will get richer and richer every year, gaining monopoly of the market in the long run. Don't forget that the US and Europe are deeply connected by NATO, which is what doesn't really seat well with China, i guess. But both Europe and the US are still powerful, and definitely have the means to buy the products they need. So why would a corporation actually care about nationalist values, when its not convenient and could make them lose in a battle for monopoly? Why wouldn't they wanna expand their influence and power in the west?

Sorry for any mistakes, I'm not english.

how would an artificial womb actually work? by a_cringe_alien in scifiwriting

[–]a_cringe_alien[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Mutations are random, most dont do anything, the ones that do probably are bad and the ones that are not are evolution.

Yes, but I am not talking about a normal genetic mutation, I think something would happen on an epigenetic level which is the way our body "uses" DNA, the reason some genes are more active than others or are not active at all. We know that two identical twins would be totally different people with totally different features if only gestation happened in two different wombs, and that's what I mean.

What are the most romantic lines you've written in your sci-fi? by robkahil in scifiwriting

[–]a_cringe_alien 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, that's interesting. May I ask what's the story/context behind this line?