After the chaos of the first few rounds, the players split into two defined factions One faction comes to the consensus that two of the players, a preteen girl and a pregnant young woman, are obviously more valuable than anyone else and must be saved for last
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
The other faction exists solely to oppose this first faction - they all, selfishly, at least want the *chance* to survive and believe the first faction will make that impossible The Protectors and the Pragmatists
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
It's obviously a fraught issue and there's obvious philosophical objections to raise to it, especially if you're pro-choice and you don't buy the argument that a pregnant person is two lives for the price of one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Another young woman starts arguing "I *could* be pregnant! I could get pregnant two weeks after I leave here! I could have ten babies and she could stop at one!" etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
And yet having a person who actually is pregnant overrides all those arguments Which is an extra fraught thing for queer or trans people
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
There's no trans characters in the movie but there is a visibly butch lesbian who gets nominated for death by a homophobic guy And when the liberal members of the circle turn on him for this he points out they're being hypocrites for protecting the pregnant woman then
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
"What? The other girl was right, she might have had a baby, this one definitely won't If babies are so important to you why is this different"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
It probably would poke at a lot of raw nerves you've talked about "Oh, so the PC brigade are going to lay down their lives to protect people based on their oppression points huh You may say you believe that garbage on Facebook but this is life and death"
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"Think about it, are you all willing to die and leave behind a society of the most victimized? How long do you think *they'll* last without you to take care of them"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Also the one guy who ends up the de facto leader of the Protector faction happens to be a military veteran
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He makes it very clear that he's taken an oath to protect the weak, as he sees it, which means that he'd have volunteered himself to die long before, if not for the fact that there's a child and a pregnant woman he needs to make sure don't get voted off
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
And the fact that he's completely unshakeable in these principles makes him a huge threat to everyone else in the game
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Oh man I can already tell I should livetweet this movie complete with gifs
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