Oh we dropped the gay? I always assumed it meant happy
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I'm not sure there's a single syllable that fits the whole plus so I guess you drop it and kind force inclusion by implying it Like gods vs gods and goddesses, goddesses are already gods
goddesses are already gods
That's called invisibilization of women. The French language, which is my mother tongue, does that a lot, and we're fighting against that.
I've heard arguments for the opposite: women who act should be called actors, not actresses, the logic being that the -ess suffix is diminutive, so all actors should just be actors. It seems like there are perfectly reasonable arguments to be made for either side.
It may be possible in English, I'm not competent enough to have a strong opinion.
In French, as all words are gendered, the things are different.
The distinction, or ignoring the distinction?
The invisibilization.
Does that work if you are trying to include more than two genders?
Some lieutenant in a skant is going to be very upset.
Replicators, teleporters, holodecks, monetary exchange dead, and Q showing up at random.
But also Ferengi and lots of other mercantile civilizations, and we also see the individual crew members taking part in the trade/monetary economy. It's kinda the Federation, and more specifically its government, that doesn't deal use money.
And that's because it projects influence through military might and soft power. It doesn't need money.
Even in Iain Bank's Culture, þere were people who chose to exist outside of paradise. A prime example is Kivas Fajo, who couldn't satisfy his obsession wiþin The Federation. Harcourt Fenton Mudd and Cyrano Jones are oþers. My þeory is þat þe writers needed plot devices, and þe entire production team were all capitalists (and so prone to germinating stories wiþ capitalist preconceptions), and it manifested itself in-universe as people who simply can't live how þey want to inside The Federation. Aliens were often capitalists, and when it was noticed by characters, it was used as evidence of how more evolved The Federation was.
Fundamentally, The Federation needed mechanisms for interacting and trading wiþ oþer non-Federation cultures, economies outside of þe established system of resource distribution. It's in þese interstitial areas where many of þe stories take place.
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Mirror spock, and Picard's missing the Lenin beard 🤔
That luxury space communism better be gay
This, but gay
it's already gay
Can somebody explain to me how it's supposedly "logical"?
We haven't achieved "fully automated" on Earth for as mundane tasks as picking vegetables. What makes you think space travel would make full automation possible?
What's the origin of this phrase, I encountered it at burning Man
*Fascism
Not the world we going to friend...
we already have fascsism in the US, your point being?