It sounds like you haven't watched Avatar, so I want to confirm your suspicion that this character is absolutely being dragged through the mud here. I'd practically recommend watching the first series just for her (if you think it would be up your alley)
Personality, flaws, charm, humor, etc...she has it all. Her special ability is basically that her other senses have developed quite a bit to compensate for the blindness, so she's a real badass at her style of martial arts - and she never has to whine and moan about being blind or being a girl.
Gee...almost like a well-written character that the audience can relate to no matter their situation. Imagine that.
-never referred to herself as "disabled"
-never bitched about "ableism"
-never bitched about "fire-centrism"
-never bitched about "feminism"
-called Aang "twinkletoes" and constantly gave him shit for being girly
-never asked for gibs
-eventually became a single mother but never bitched about her ex. Said "it just didn't work out"
-still didn't ask for gibs
-ends up living alone in a swamp taking care of all her own shit and not bothering anyone else
-doesn't give Korra the pussypass and treats her like she's always treated everyone
They seriously can't tell the difference, can they?
He was doing a remix of the classic Ballad of the Kang.
I like that analogy - especially because in many situations you don't need a knife (or a corkscrew or a nail-file, etc...) at all.
By which I mean - starting too many of your sentences with watashi wa is the classic noob move. Just the verb (politely conjugated according to the context) is very often a complete sentence.
Best of luck in your efforts. 頑張ってね～
Oh for sure, and I do love me a tomboy waifu. And there's many an anime where the tomboy even refers to herself as ore or kono ore-sama, etc...right to a teacher's face...great fun, love to see it - but that'll land you in hot water IRL, heh.
My anti-wokie point was that watashi isn't inherently feminine (more feminine than boku? Sure.)
Imagine an up-and-coming dude with a deep voice in a three-piece suit going to some fancy corporate interview with a whole board of big-shots. In that situation, if he refers to himself as watashi, it's definitely more about humility and respect than anything else.
OP's original statement about it opens the door for wokies to claim that he's 0bviously n0n-b1n4ry since he used "feminine" watashi, which is exactly the kind of thing we can all agree is bullshit. Odds are he'll switch right back to boku with his friends at the izakaya after the interview is done.
Bottom line: your average degenerate Discord troon projecting their mental disfunction and political biases onto Japanese media, culture and language doesn't actually know anything.
Good post, but I think "watashi is exclusively used by women" is a bit of an oversimplification.
You are correct that many English-speaking students of the language learn it early and use it too much, because it usually isn't emphasized enough that it's often most polite not to refer to yourself with any word at all if context makes it clear that you're the subject of the sentence.
(Example: you make a surprise visit to a friend's house but find a message taped to the door - "Gone fishin'" No pronoun needed to understand who went fishing)
Assuming you need it, watashi is the default for everyone in polite contexts like introductions, professional interviews, etc...but again you'd only use it in certain situations like replying to "what about you?" or "what do you think?" questions.
(And in those situations even people of superior station would most likely address you as [family name]-san rather than anata (you) or anything like that.)
The "lack of pronouns in Japanese" is a real thing like you heard, but rather than delving into that, I'll just refer everyone to chapter 1 of Jay Rubin's Making Sense of Japanese.
Bit of an effort post, but I'm a very committed weeb when it comes to wokie junk infecting my precious Japanese media. So I'd rather everyone here be as informed as possible.
You're totally right about the money, but then that would be creating something new...and I think it's obvious at this point that all wokies are out to do is destroy.
The sad piano music was supposed to distract you from the China part.
Cog, meet Diss.
Imagine the sweat on the inside of that elbow oozing onto the back of your neck...
...hope you weren't eating or anything.
All I heard was "UNTAT GOONTAT...SOLOOOO"
I really think everyone should read Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, available for free at the link.
It's more of a novella/short story, but you won't regret it. Doesn't take very long to read. Truly a hidden gem that's just a click away.
Far away from any purity spirals.
Between the two subs it was over a hundred thousand people getting purple pills at the very least.
Do not be alarmed, citizen.
Please redirect your attention to our meticulously curated "Front Page of the internet" experience, where you will receive today's NPC hotfixes.
STOP NOTICING.
Bad goy. No noticing allowed.
Shit...you're right...
The level of illiteracy concerning nuclear power in the anglosphere infuriates me to no end.
I try my best to empathize with other people, but when your immediate response is to recoil in disgust at the mere mention of words like "radiation" or "chemical," I seriously question your usefulness to the continuation of the human endeavor.
How did public schools fail this hard?
Me too. Personally I think it was just the WWI bandage coming off for the most part, but do tell Assassin.
Hegel was before it all went to shit (right around when WWII ended, oddly enough). Don't lump him in with postmodern faggotry.
He does have his critics though - Schopenhauer despised him.
I agree with your description of Hegelian synthesis, but I think one thing you forgot to point out is that the hard-left is skipping the final "synthesis" step in all your examples. In fact their moral system remains just as dualistic as the old religion it replaced.
Take for example their favorite morality play: "Love vs Hate," which they installed in place of "Good vs Evil."
Sure, some things like traditional family values and teaching toddlers about sex toys got shuffled to the opposite side, but it's fundamentally the same structure. They just sort everything into love or hate, nothing "synthetic" about it.
On this topic I always go back to this uncannily prophetic scene from Donnie Darko (2001). It's such a bullseye, I can hardly believe it.
Obviously the analogy I'm making here is teacher as the looming blight of dualistic Libstianity and recalcitrant student as Hegel arguing for more nuanced (synthetic) reasoning.
The only slight miss was contraposing "Fear" instead of "Hate" against "Love." But then again, Libstians never miss an opportunity to label someone a "-phobe," so there certainly is still the projection of fear there.
Really great movie if you haven't seen it. It was edgy and leftist in its day, but I'm sure many would call it "far-right propaganda" now.
Lol.
Now the question is: did anyone in the ad department realize that this "reinforces the bun binary" by only depicting top-buns and bottom-buns??
WHY ARE THEY ERASING THE EXISTENCE OF NON-BINARY BUNS?!!?!1!
It was another little fun moment. I'm no stranger to the deep-fried distortion, believe you me. I am solely responsible for taking care of my hearing.
I plan on going completely deaf in my old age so I don't have to listen to whatever stupid bullshit they're cooking up now. Then I drop my last two dollars on a Costco hotdog that just vexes my poor old heart and sends me over the edge to Nirvana.
It's all gravy dude, haven't had a good rolling in a while.
For sure, and I thought it was a nice touch when they followed through on those limits for the desert arc.