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    They’re not all upper class, Joey starts as a small background / ad actor, Rachel and Phoebe do small jobs like waitress and massages - Phoebe living in the street as a kid comes up a few times. (well, Rachel is born rich but she starts the series getting cut off and left with nothing - after she dumps her dad’s credit cards she had) An episode has Joey, Phoebe, Rachel point out that they’re poor and often out of a job so they complain that they aren’t nearly as loaded as Chandler, Ross, Monica, and they have a hard time keeping up with their lifestyle. Also confirming Chandler, Ross, Monica are indeed well off. Later, Joey gets a good acting role, Rachel has a good job, and Phoebe gets a good place at some point.




  • When you show transphobia, racism, mysoginy, homophobia, fatphobia, etc. you are not disrespecting the one person, you are denigrating an entire section of humanity - you are associating the harm this one person caused you to this one trait that a lot of other unrelated people share. And that’s how it becomes a crutch for you to use against anyone you don’t like, and then at some point, that’s just what you are - racist, homophobic, mysoginist, etc. Even unconsciously, you start thinking that anyone who shares that trait risks doing the same things to you personally, that’s just how it happens.

    So no, you shouldn’t throw around the N word or the F word or berate someone’s gender because they are abusing you. Blame them for what they are doing to you, not for what they are. You don’t owe your abuser respect, but this isn’t disrespecting one person.








  • The 50th anniversary had Tom Baker make a cameo as a future incarnation straight up telling 11 that he might “revisit some old favorite (faces)”, then 12 subconsciously chose a face from someone he met in one of 10’s episodes, and then 14 took 10’s face again for a few episodes. So yes, they explicitly opened the gates for a previous actor of a different character to pick up the role (and even a former Doctor). I think there have also been some rumors coming and going about Jenna a couple times, ever since Clara pretended to be the Doctor in a couple of episodes.




  • Actually, it has been identified as one of the bigger issues. Lack of childcare options means one parent needs to stay home, means one income, means lots of women tend to just work a few years in office exclusively to find a good husband and then drop out of everything (cue the incel population who understands that if they can’t have a huge income, they might never get laid). Also, single income participates in the terrible work culture where staying at one company forever is the better option because people who leave get burned everywhere. And this lifestyle, this work identity, this lack of prospectives, is a big part of why young people are losing hope fast. This vicious cycle has been pretty well known forever, and childcare has been recognized as a major starter of it for a while.

    Housing in Japan is often a culture of 3 generations living in the same home, single income participates in that too, but there are housing options - Japan has a notoriously high number of empty homes, abandoned and falling apart; we don’t have any perspective right now on what direction this could go if the demographics started improving. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone ever bring up that education had any particular problem, as far as I can tell they get what they need. In all of those fields there’s probably a bunch of issues about outdated standards everywhere, but there’s no big issue about entire spans of population dropping out of education or housing or feeding.


  • Yeah, Japan is notoriously deep in a hole about that: the total lack of child care support has long been identified as a major drive for all the gender inequalities they have (employment high up above everything else, then salary), which is super bad. There have been talks about something like child care for a few years, and apparently only now they’re actually doing it - they’ve been extra dragging their feet for a long time, and if they’re doing it now, it’s only because they finally accepted that their known demographics disaster will not be miraculously fixed by checks notes doing nothing. Hell must be freezing over right now.


  • It was filmed a while ago and left sitting on a shelf for literal years. Every time they change something in the MCU in a movie, they’d have to make sure this still make sense when they finally release it; and if they can’t have references and hints about other things to come (which they can hardly do if they wait years and change plans), it may end up being nothing but filler and time waster unless it’s REALLY good. That doesn’t inspire a lot of hope.

    Wasn’t it also being made around the same time as Armor Wars, which changed from movie to series and back and forth and then got canned? If this was made with any connection to Armor Wars that won’t pay off, that’s another bad sign.



  • Both arms was my first take too considering he’s specifically named the one winged angel because of the one black wing replacing his arm, but he does have a whole extra head visible behind the text, in the same way Bizarro Sephiroth had a big Sephiroth and then a tiny Sephiroth on top - the topless, black wing form sits on a cloud that sits on top of another bigger Sephiroth with white wings instead of just having 6 wings replacing his legs. And there’s still more werid shit going on behind that text that I can’t make out. With how they brought Bizarro Sephiroth in Rebirth, they could be doing the “multiple teams attacking different sections” take again.