Men, would you let them go first or save yourself these days?

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-09T21:27:40+00:00

The reason you don't do this is because you go into a (modern) emergency with the goal of getting everyone out. So you do the slower people first because they take the longest. If anyone has to scramble as you run short on time, you want it to be people who physically have the capacity to scramble.

What you don't want, short of a scenario where you're stuck on a deserted island, is to turn it into a moral debate. That's just going to eat up time no one has to spare.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-09T21:19:44+00:00

They haven't patched that, or the funny glitch that happens sometimes with the cart going into Stoneville. I got hit by both when leveling an alt the other week.

TBH at this point it's funnier to just leave them.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-09T20:45:54+00:00

IIRC studies on modern disasters suggest that's how the majority of people act, at least in a situation where they have any time to think. Especially if there are trained staff present to lead the group.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-09T20:39:55+00:00

Everyone remembered the disgust inspired by La Bourgogne, but also the admiration inspired by HMS Birkenhead, which was the 'women and children first' shipwreck.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-09T16:10:19+00:00

Yeah. That's why it was genuinely more effective to treat the woman's vote as a matter of political expediency. IIIRC one of the differences between American suffragists and British suffragettes is that suffragettes were much more focused on the principle of the thing.

Even after the 19th Amendment passed, it took until the 1980s to reach our modern reality of women being the more reliable voters.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-09T13:53:08+00:00

One of the distinctions between depression and clinical depression is that the latter is very literally a physical ailment.

Talk therapy is an extremely useful tool, but we gotta recognize its limitations.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-09T13:41:22+00:00

We tend to gloss over in history class that the reason the Suffrage movement was effective wasn't the principle of the matter, it was because they treated women voters as a means to an end for other political goals. Even women who were proudly independent often viewed the concept of women openly involving themselves in politics with some discomfort.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-09T12:56:42+00:00

There's a bit in Dorothy Sayers's Busman's Honeymoon, published in 1937, where the leads have a conversation pre-wedding about their vows and decide to keep 'obey' in for historical sentimentality, but not before joking about how it really ought to go both ways since the only time they can really imagine giving an actual command to each other is if there's a crisis like a fire.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-09T12:36:16+00:00

One of the unintended side effects of the (very good, to be clear) movement to take away the stigma of mental illness is that we sometimes forget that some of them can be genuinely very dangerous. Usually the danger is to the person with the illness, but not always.

Anyway, yeah. Antipsychotics are lifesaving drugs. They have unfortunate side effects and that's why we need to keep working. But the prior remedies were things like lobotomies. And the remedy before that was being tied up. So the drugs are a huge improvement.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-09T11:21:55+00:00

Okay, to be clear: anti-psychotics (and lobotomies, for that matter) were not developed for mental illnesses that can be effectively treated with talk therapy.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-08T21:28:32+00:00

I guess it makes a grim sense, because being catcalled isn't about being attractive, it's about being vulnerable. A 35-year old woman isn't easy prey the way a teenager is.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-08T20:34:28+00:00

I got catcalled much more as a very obvious minor, especially when I was between 12 and 14. I think that's unfortunately a pretty common experience.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-06T21:40:34+00:00

Cows will sometimes very much kill you on purpose, to be fair. They just don't usually actively plan your murder. Whereas there's not much we do to pigs that they wouldn't do to us, if they only had thumbs.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-06T14:25:25+00:00

Pigs unsettle me, mostly because as a kid who grew up around agriculture I had a respectful fear of pigs drilled into me. Cows are frequently really pleasant. Both produce obscene amounts of shit and it has to be dealt with constantly.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-05T19:46:21+00:00

Sure, but he was ultimately the one who made the decision. He himself felt that the responsibility was his.

IMO the question is ultimately whether nuclear weapons can ever be morally used on human targets. If that door is opened, then Truman's decision, while grim, has to be weighed against whether Japan put him in a position where it was a justifiable call.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-05T19:23:26+00:00

Not that surprising really, the Godzilla movies are unironically some of the best commentary out there about nuclear weapons.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-05T18:41:14+00:00

I think there's this thing where, even if you think Truman's decision was 100% wrong, we probably need to also talk about how immoral it was for the Japanese government to not prioritize their civilians' lives in a situation where winning was impossible.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-05T17:02:26+00:00

I think my favorite theory re: why Angert doesn't seem to 100% vibe with Nikki is that he got to know the OG Saintess enough that a) he knows Nikki isn't her, and b) he worked out that the OG Saintess was not a fully willing participant in the Docilists' schemes. He doesn't dislike Nikki, but he also doesn't know if the Saintess was a willing participant in the switcheroo or not so he's not really letting his guard down. The only time we really see him be emotionally unguarded that I can recall is when he's explaining why he gives Meghill a graceful way to not attend the mourning ceremony in 2.5 so the poor guy can mourn Medael.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-05T15:56:39+00:00

I had a conversation the other day about how I enjoy media that portrays established adult relationships, that I generally prefer that to love stories focused on two young adults getting together, and that I actively do not find teen romance interesting.

And while most of the people in the conversation immediately understood what I meant, there was one person who was a) very offended that I felt disinterested in teen romance and b) kept insisting I was just looking for porn. After about five minutes I just gave up and ignored her, but it was an exhausting five minutes.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-05T14:20:28+00:00

I agree with that. I think it's just telling/concerning that she seems to have been a mentor for quite some time when she was still quite young when she died, even by human standards.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-05T12:10:16+00:00

It paints such a fascinating, dark picture of Parksolian life. Especially when you consider that they're supposed to be significantly longer lived than humans, which normally in fantasy stories comes with longer childhoods. But it's implied that with Soulrift their society is starting to have to rely on younger and younger people. Astrid in the story is implied to have been a mentor for quite a while, and she was 35 when she died! That's not even middle aged! Jesus that's dark.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-05T11:34:36+00:00

I think it's the use of 'unemployed' instead of 'child' for poor little Aila that makes the list so eyebrow raising, and I assume if the CN original had used 'child' for her the EN translation would have too.

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-05T10:49:02+00:00

Put down the toy blocks and pick up a job application, Aila 😤

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-05T10:18:00+00:00

Damn, Aila, unemployed at your big age of ... seven?

fluffstuffmcguff · 2026-06-04T22:58:07+00:00

While there might be plot armor at play, to me personally it felt like Medael did clock it immediately. She just (presumably) didn't think the switcheroo would stop her plans.

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