They are also, by dent of being convicted, banned from applying to become a firefighter in the state of CA. Even though they have frontline experience.
Not anymore!
Literally, the day after this Tweet, Governor Newsom signed legislation into law allowing those who were inmate firefighters to become professional firefighters after their release (even while on parole!)
People that get invested in fiction and examine fictional lore need to learn how to tell the difference between which lore is actually important to the series and which lore is an excuse for something.
If Dwarven women are capable of growing beards, but have cultural reasons not to, that is an excuse that they made not to give them beards.
If a female character can only wear skimpy clothing for some given reason, that is an excuse to sexualize her.
If an organization can only be populated men, that is often an excuse to not have to create female characters.
Its all made up. It isn’t a foundation of the universe that they can’t control. They wrote it to be like that.
“I know the women are treated poorly, but its set in an era when women weren’t respected” its an entirely fictional world, not a historical documentary. They didnt have to have it set up so women are treated poorly in that culture. That’s a decision they made.
I hate _% of people statistics being used like “oh it’s such a small number” cause 1% is a small number but 1% of 7 billion is 70 million. That’s more than the population of the UK, France or Italy.
6% of the US is 19 million, as stated above. There are only 3 states that have over 19 million people in them. 19 million is the population of the entire state of New York. That’s more than half the population of California.
Taking populations and turning them into percentages is okay until you try to say “oh that’s not a lot of people” but the reality is… That’s millions. That’s enough to be its own country. That’s fucking scary.
Like don’t get me wrong, that’s nicer than the idea that Americans are split pretty 50/50 on such issues…. but that’s still 3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country. 6% is a nice, softened way of saying “over 1 in 20 people”.
3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country.
3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country.
3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country.
Let that sink in. Then think about how your Jewish friends and neighbors feel right now, and have been feeling all this time.
