my sister changed her profile pic from some pro-cop bs to trump 2024
she's got FAS and is very much a parrot (she copies what she hears around her. i.e being shit to my mom bc my dad is. he's been the biggest influence the last year as they were kinda stuck in the same room together) unintentionally so i know it's most likely that spending time around my dad when he watches the news is the culprit-
but that doesn't make me feel less angry and lowkey betrayed by it
and i can't say anything about it
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i think a good exercise for a lot of writers to scrutinise our gender biases is to open up some old story and just change a character's pronouns and name if necessary to make them another gender. if you make a male or non binary character a woman, how does she compare to your other female characters, does she stand out in any way? does it make you want to change any of her choices or dialogues? did you have an idea of what they did before and/or is gonna do after the story and has that changed? does it affect your affinity for this character? does something seem silly or illogical or off about the character in this new light, does any scene have to go or be rewritten completely bc of the change? if the answer ever is yes you gotta ask yourself why.
now try it with different characters, different genders, if you try it in several stories maybe you'll find the switch makes a larger difference in a love interest than a main character regardless of original gender, or not or vice versa. why. if you change the entire cast how does that make you feel?
just make yourself aware of your own perceptions of gender, then do with that information what you will.
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what's the desktop site you use for sticky notes? i randomly stumbled across your post and now im curious
k so i used to use this one for chrome (it worked pretty separately from the browser though i hate sticky note extensions that are stuck to the page or only operational through your bookmarks. killing and biting i want to be able to have them open over other apps) and this morning i downloaded this one off the app store for my macbook (works the same except like. kind of better. tbh). so glad you could be with me on this journey hope this is applicable to your life at all <3
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