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[phaseshifted]

Can I have an example?

[therapeutics]

[ no. ]

You know, I really don't think it's that hard of a distinction to make.

[ but nevertheless. she pauses, glaring in the meanwhile, and sighs. ]

I grew up in a very traditional time period in a patriarchal household - a patriarchal society. Therefore, I was made to feel lesser and subservient because I was a girl. As a reaction to that, I made the choice to rebel and utilize my intelligence to become a doctor, which not very many women did in the fifties and sixties.

Does that clear things up?

[phaseshifted]

[...Lesser because she was a girl? That's a value only the really backwards clans hold onto, and even then...it's weird to consider.]

It's good you didn't let them being completely wrong hold you down.

[therapeutics]

Of course they're wrong. But it's the way things were.

[ and still are, at least back in the 70s, but it's getting better. kind of.

and the question's getting spun back around. ]

I take it you don't have problems like that where you're from.

[phaseshifted]

It isn't nonexistent, but it's rare. Women and men alike are seen as equally capable-your skill matters more than your gender ever could. [She smiles, bringing up faces in her mind.] One of my friends-she leads her group of treasure hunters, and no one would question that she's the smartest of them all.

[therapeutics]

It's a case of survival, then. Given your environment, it's every man - or woman - for themselves, leaving little room for distinctions like that.

Interesting.

[phaseshifted]

Mm.

[Casual enough to be tossed off as a random motion, Angel crosses her arms so she can touch her markings. Every woman for herself.]

And you live in a place where people take their relative comfort and use that freedom to be assho-I mean, awful people.

[therapeutics]

It has more to do with religion, than anything. Supposedly, a book written millennia ago and translated by who knows how many people gives people the freedom they need to be assholes. [ nope. just say it. it's all good. ]

[phaseshifted]

[She can nearly feel him over her shoulder, holding it tight, going Language.]

...I'm sorry.

[What else do you say when people are that wrong?]

[therapeutics]

Oh, don't be sorry. Technically, you're a part of it now.

[ LMFAO WELCOME TO ENGLAND??? ]

[phaseshifted]

I am?

[Nah she'll stay with her progressive society thanks]

[therapeutics]

It's technically Earth, isn't it? Very far in the future, but still.

[phaseshifted]

[Angel shakes her head.]

Pandora is an entirely different planet.

[therapeutics]

You're just figuring that out?

[ gurl. ]

[phaseshifted]

What I mean is that you can't compare it and this Earth. Not by a long shot.

[not even with the fact you have humans on both-this planet is far too tame and its people react accordingly.]

[therapeutics]

You'll have to tell me more sometime. [ so she can jump to horrible conclusions about you. ] It sounds fascinating.

[phaseshifted]

When we get to know each other better.

It's your turn, anyway, to tell me about your planet.

[therapeutics]

Oh, I had no intentions of taking turns. I told you, anyway. My country, at least, is still founded in some bullshit religious ideals, and I've hardly seen the rest of the planet.

[phaseshifted]

You didn't tell me as much as I told you. If you can't tell me about your planet, perhaps your country?

[she isn't here to bare her mind to you without a price.]

[therapeutics]

It's called America, and it's a place where the richer you are, the more sedatives you can buy.

[ THE END. ]

[phaseshifted]

And? Who's in charge? What kind of people are there? What's the climate like?

[she has enough patience to ask you every question she needs to.]

[therapeutics]

The president. The people are just like those you'd find here. The climate varies depending on the part of the country and the time of year.

[ wow. very answer. such vague. ]

[phaseshifted]

Who is the president? Which people, the natives or the Transports? What's the climate like in the section of the country where you live?

[amaze. much information.]

[therapeutics]

President's Nixon, currently. Up for reelection in a month. Most of the people are similar to the Transports; admittedly I've not much contact with the natives.

This time of year, New England weather would be harsh and bitter.

Answer your questions?

[phaseshifted]

Some of them. I'll save the rest for next time.