lirazel: Two Victorian women are seated, one hides her face behind her hand, the other holds a book in front of her face ([books] facepalm)
lirazel ([personal profile] lirazel) wrote 2023-07-27 04:58 pm (UTC)

They literally could have included one extra scene or a handful of lines scattered throughout to establish why Biomom is a bad idea for Minister of Justice (or whatever). It would have taken almost no effort! But by not doing that, they imply that she'd make a bad minister because she is a "bad" mom? Even though the point is that she didn't want to be a mom at all? UGH.

You can either seriously interrogate feudal aristocracy all the way down, or you can go full wish-fulfillment, but you really can't have it both ways! The whole thing falls apart.

Yes. I understand the impulse of wanting to have it both ways--I am guilty of that impulse myself! But I am at least self-aware enough to know that it never actually works! This is one case where you truly do have to pick a side!

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