Second, I’m pretty sure there are more than two genders (if you want to say genderqueers are lying or mistaken, the burden of proof is on you).
Indeed. It’s not clear from the story what happened to them, not to mention everyone who isn’t heterosexual. Maybe they’re on a moon somewhere?
Anissimov, I was trying to make the verthandi a bit more complicated a creature than Belldandy—not to mention that Keiichi and Belldandy still manage to have a frustrating relationship along ahem certain dimensions. It’s just that “Belldandy” is the generic name for her sort, in the same way that “catgirl” is the generic name for a nonsentient sex object.
But let’s have a bit of sympathy for her, please; how would you like to have been created five minutes ago, with no name and roughly generic memories and skills, and then dumped into that situation?
I have to say, although I expected in the abstract that people would disagree with me about Utopia, to find these particular disagreements still feels a bit shocking. I wonder if people are trying too hard to be contrarian—if the same people advocating this Utopia would be just as vehemently criticizing it, if the title of the post had been “Successful Utopia #4-2”.
Indeed. It’s not clear from the story what happened to them, not to mention everyone who isn’t heterosexual. Maybe they’re on a moon somewhere?
Anissimov, I was trying to make the verthandi a bit more complicated a creature than Belldandy—not to mention that Keiichi and Belldandy still manage to have a frustrating relationship along ahem certain dimensions. It’s just that “Belldandy” is the generic name for her sort, in the same way that “catgirl” is the generic name for a nonsentient sex object.
But let’s have a bit of sympathy for her, please; how would you like to have been created five minutes ago, with no name and roughly generic memories and skills, and then dumped into that situation?
I have to say, although I expected in the abstract that people would disagree with me about Utopia, to find these particular disagreements still feels a bit shocking. I wonder if people are trying too hard to be contrarian—if the same people advocating this Utopia would be just as vehemently criticizing it, if the title of the post had been “Successful Utopia #4-2”.