#i get nervous to talk about how not-fun i find the 1-to-1 earth misogyny theories because im worried people who like that will judge me

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you could maybe make a beforus jadeblood tradwife work but even then it still feels off...

yeah, exactly!

it's because trolls have a completely different history than we do-- i mean, obviously, they're aliens-- so the thing is they wouldn't have had a baby boom that caused gender roles to be reimposed on their (american) society in the 50s. nor would they have an explosion of trolls desperately idolizing those 50s now in backlash to societal progress. it simply wasn't a thing that happened for them.

they don't have that societal context at all, and therefore, it just doesn't make sense.

my post was a joke -- because i think if alternians did have a sort of social equivalent to a tradwife it would essentially just be equius -- but i don't think they really would have that.

tbfh i've (personally) gotten a bit tired lately of all the posts about how alternia totally definitely had the exact same bioessential mammal sexism as humans. because... that just doesn't make any logical sense to me. at all. nor is it interesting, or fun. "what if there was a planet where women were treated badly" oh you mean earth? you mean the fucking earth?

i get that sci-fi is supposed to mirror real-world problems. i just wish it took on a more interesting form than "what if we did violent earth misogyny, again". i would find discussion of scratch's effects on alternia more interesting if they didn't all just end up as Earth 2.