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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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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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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Yeah it's like if you'd seen it you'd probably have made the joke about how they'd all vote the trans girl dead first just to get that out of the way
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I have a soft spot for this kind of goofy thought experiment thing The kind of movie where no one gets a name and is identified just by their identity category (the Lesbian, the Homophobe, the Veteran, the Little Girl, the Pregnant Woman)
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But yeah, this kind of thing brings the origins of gender in reproduction right to the surface If half the species were to suddenly die, the chances of our survival as a species would directly depend on how many of the survivors had fertile uteri
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There's that thing that went semiviral a while back about the people on the Titanic All these rich spoiled gentlemen having an agreement they almost all followed that they would not board a lifeboat as long as there were women and children still on board
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The way one of them put it in very stark terms "I have played the man's game my whole life, and I do not intend to stop now"
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I.e. he was very conscious being a man came with a great deal of privilege and he personally strongly believed that that privilege had a moral cost that, in this instance, he was obligated to pay
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