While it may be annoying, it’s prudent to slog through complexity time and again in order to produce simple solutions.
Those solutions keep complexity “annoying,” rather than “overwhelming.”
Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha
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Hey unrelatedly / related, I started Echo Vol I last night, now I’m only 2 chapters in but I really like how you’re dealing with masculinity, and it’s toxicity. Really cool, looking forward to reading the rest. 🙂 Is it ok if I do a review on it when I’m finished?
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Hey, thank you! You can absolutely do a review on it! I don’t necessarily think masculinity is inherently toxic, but I do think that when people begin to idealize actions, no matter what end of the spectrum, they veer away from harmony and clarity into dogma. Atriya actually encounters the other end of toxic masculinity in volume 4, and has to deal with the detriments of that as well. 🙂
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No no of course not. It’s the way young boys are challenged for being sensitive or weak. Very cool so far. 😉
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I think I get what you’re saying—machismo is fine if it’s kept under control and for joking around every now and then, but once it gets in the way of ethics-bounded results, then it not only loses all its use, but it becomes a detriment. I agree! 🙂
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