@streetkid-named-desire tagged me for an OC association thing. I copy-pasted from their post

I tag @fourth-floor-at-langley, @medtech-mara, @aggravateddurian

I'm using the most recent pictures I have of them but their appearances are gonna be changing again over time (not so much with my netrunner tho)

First is Veil (aka V31L or any variation that other runners might have seen her handle as):

Animal: Standard domestic cat because that is just the general vibe netrunners give off tbh

Colors: 007BA7

Month: June/July (wrt birth month: January)

Plants: She's a California girl at heart so she likes palm trees

Numbers: I was gonna go for 23 for reasons relating to William Burroughs and Psychic TV but I'll go for 42 as the maximum RAM she had in the most recent playthrough

Songs:

Cowgirl - Underworld

Mindfields - The Prodigy

Teardrop - Massive Attack

Smells: Tropical fruits, coconut, vanilla

Time of Day: 10PM - 5AM

Food: Combination of classy Japanese dining and street food.

Drinks: Rum & Coke, beer, real coffee (bought off a black market dealer on the Net)

Elements: uwu the fifth one

Seasonings: the shit that makes Indian curries slap (I'm Bri'ish so I've only ever had a proper curry a few times and the others have been bastardised ones made at home)

Weapons: Quickhacks, Skippy, D5 Sidewinder, Hercules 3AX, suppressed Unity

Places: EdgeNet (Yoko Tsuru's shop), H10 rooftop

Sky: Clear night sky (so she can see the moon)

Weather: Rainy days, clear nights

Candy: I think bubblegum counts. Cigarettes definitely don't count.

Hobbies: Hacking, arguing with other Netrunners, remote controlling her Galena when she decides now is the right time to get in to a disagreement over the phone or with a passenger.

Artstyle: Patrick Nagel

Fear: The collective weight of guilt after spending 11 years of her life in NetWatch and the last few of those years sub-conning for Arasaka catching up with her. Losing her found family.

Clothing item: Black leather racers, knotted tank, personalised edgerunner with shoulder mounted monitor on the left sleeve and shoulder pad on the right, heeled boots (her wardrobe varies but that set in particular is her go to)

Three Emojis: 🧠⚡💥

Star Sign: Capricorn

Ronnie below the keep reading:

Animal: Some kind of attack dog, doberman maybe.

Colors: #660000

Month: August (birth month)

Plants: Roses

Numbers: 10 - which was the most she took on (so far) in an impromptu street fight in Northside. Unfortunately for her the gang was NCPD and they had to deploy a netrunner to pacify her.

Songs:

Boys Wanna Be Her - Peaches

Hips, Tits, Lips, Power! - Pigface/Silverfish

If You Want Blood (You Got It) - GWAR

bonus: Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls - White Zombie (also Caramelldansen but because of that one Doom Eternal meme which is Ronniecore)

Smells: Pineapple

Time of Day: 8PM

Food: Pizza

Drinks: Beer

Elements: Fire

Seasonings: hottest possible chilli powder

Weapons: Cut-O-Matic, Baseball Bat, Carnage, her (cyber)fists

Places: Lizzie's, trailer park outside SanDom, Megabuilding H11

Sky: She was born way after the Time of the Red but that.

Weather: Rainy

Candy: leelou beans.

Hobbies: Fighting, sleeping, defending her output's honor (even though she's capable of standing up for herself).

Artstyle: Jamie Hewlett

Fear: Adam Smasher, Militech

Clothing item: black bustier, short shorts, harness, fishnet tights, combat boots

Three Emojis: 🦾👊🪚 < pretend thats a cut-o-matic

Star Sign: Leo

was talking on discord yesterday about how even though i like the broadway revival a lot and enjoy their characterization of misto on its own merits i don't necessarily agree with the decisions they made wrt his character and especially his relationship with tugger? by which i mean like. listen, it should go without saying that i love it when productions emphasize the romantic undertones of their relationship. but i don't think the only or even the best way to do that is to alter their dynamic so that misto is less snarky and dismissive? i love the revival choreo for the rum tum tugger but honestly i also think it's kind of a misstep bc i think you lose a lot of what makes their dynamic interesting by having misto be an active and enthusiastic participant in that song. i think it matters that he doesn't fawn over tugger the way everyone else does. personally i think the ideal way to play up their relationship while preserving misto's personality would be to keep his participation in the rum tum tugger the same (with the only possible modification being tugger showing more interest in him like maybe trying to get him to stick around after his line and generally trying to impress him), give them a moment during the jellicle ball (does not need to be major or central to the number, i'm not asking for victoria and plato here, i just mean let them dance together for a bit even if it's in the background and maybe have them lie down together), and then go all in on their interactions during mr mistoffelees which is imo the right time to showcase their connection. you've got SO many options there even without making any significant changes to the choreography! before they dance together, at the part where in some productions they bow to each other before they link arms, you could have tugger bow and kiss misto's hand. you could have him pick him up and/or kiss him in excitement after he brings old deuteronomy back. if you did wanna mess around with the choreography a bit you could give tugger just slightly more involvement in the solo, you could incorporate a lift, anything...... idk i think there's so much fun stuff you can do without making misto less bitchy. i love it when he's bitchy 😔

wrt the strawberry mojito post: a mojito is a classic Cuban cocktail, it's usually made with rum, mint leaves, club soda, sugar, and lime! v tasty imo

ooh! imma have to try that someday! thanks anon!

🍄 🌻 🌺 for Liss.

Ooh fun! Thank you!  🍄 What are your OCs favorite snacks? Their favorite comfort food which always cheers them up when they’re down?  Favorite meal to make? Do they enjoy baking and cooking and are they any good in the kitchen?Haha, I really love that you asked this question for Liss in particular because she’s a TERRIBLE cook.  She’s awful in the kitchen, completely useless except for making a mess, burning things, and looking adorable in an apron with flour on her nose.  Nobody wants her anywhere near their food.  WRT snacks and comfort foods, I actually just wrote about this in my latest chapter, so I have a pretty detailed answer for you!  When she was a little girl, Nan regularly made these shortbread cookies with jam on them, that Liss and Nathaniel (or whoever else she could sucker into going with her) would sneak in and steal.  Even as an adult they’re still one of her favorite things to eat. 

🌻 What little things do they notice about people or the world around them that make them happy? What tiny little treasures do they find in the normal every day that makes the world seem a little brighter for them?Liss is the kind of person who reads cheap, poorly written romance novels just to laugh at the corniness.  She’s the kind of person who will become fixated on something she hears and then needs to learn everything there is to know about that thing (i.e. brontos, the Fourth Blight, Starkhaven climate patterns, etc.).  She can pretty much find joy in any and everything. 

🌺 What are some of their favorite things and why? List as many as you can think of. 

Hmm.  Liss’ favorite things: flower crowns, baths, candles, the smell of lavendar, sunshine, summer, cookies, poetry, stories about warrior women, brontos, holding hands, braids, swimming, children, dancing, Antivan rum, letters/notes, books books books books books. And I don’t really have a reason, nor does she, other than those are just things she likes. 

ed, bud, and lynn, since I am evidently back on my bullshit

Ed: Nobody could possibly smell any squarer than Ed Exley, I mean, come on. I would say with 100% certainty that he uses the same aftershave and shaving soap as his father. (If not the same actual bottle of aftershave that his dad used.) He would deny absolutely anything sentimental *or* Freudian about that but I really don't think he deviates any further from what propriety absolutely requires. If you put a gun to his head and told him to pick out a cologne he would wear Knize Glencheck.

Non-diegetic Ed scents: Iris, apricot, cedar, the metallic note of a broken pair of glasses.

Bud: Smells like Skin Bracer and collar sweat. Unlike Ed, I can imagine him actually putting in some effort at the lady's request if Lynn ever gave some faint sign of giving a shit about men's fragrance wrt him specifically, but I can't imagine why anyone would.

Non-diegetic Bud smells: Ugggh, do you really want a perfume oil that smells like plastic-bottle postwar aftershave? Is there a fragrance oil that captures the experience of getting beat up in an old hotel?

Lynn: Oh my god, can you even imagine how good Lynn must smell? This one is really hard because she just looks like she smells profoundly glamorous.There is nothing even a TINY bit unisex about her scent profile -- maybe Robert Piguet Fracas or Diorama or something? Kim Basinger apparently wore Fracas IRL, but this is all really outside my own fragrance wheelhouse so I'm taking total shots in the dark here.

Non-diegetic: Nice and clean smells for a girl who just wants to move back to Bisbee, Arizona -- sagebrush, Spanish clover, and rock jasmine.

I started making fakey LA Quartet perfume oils back in May 2017 and these were these characters' fragrances then:

Exley: crisp clean Ivy League cologne twined around with smoky accelerants and spent cartridges; bayleaf, clove, bergamot, blood, copper.

Bud White: a schoolboy at the barber's -- lime, bay rum,

Lynn: Gardenia, sugared vanilla, and soft wisps of tobacco smoke.

aaaaaaaaand the cake and bday additions to that last post. warning for discussion of alcohol bc cake is a drunkard. also bday is Tragic as per usual

here’s cake:

Their physical weak spots: cake evades a lot but can’t take strong hits in general. go 4 the legs Their emotional/moral weak spots: gets hung up easily when fighting ppl he has attachment to... he was raised without much morals wrt murder but he still finds himself evading having to kill anyone and tries to rather incapacitate them Scars or painful spots: he has SO MANY SCARS god....... he wears them all like badges of honor, he’s very lax about getting chewed up so long as he wins the fight whoops Best places to kiss on their body: cake’s entire body is a very kissable zone, though he’s biased towards anywhere on his torso and back. surprisingly he’s not a massive fan of lip kisses but he will still spring for them Guilty pleasures: he knows he should feel guilty about all the pina coladas but is that going to stop him? no, it’s not Their vices (physical or emotional): he loves rum, he loves sparring, he loves physical contact, he loves long walks (or spirited jogs) on the beach, what else is there to say? he does asura weed maybe? Humiliating memories: gghjfd god he has so many and some make for fun party stories and some don’t. the ones that actively haunt him are related to him acting like a dam fool in front of his parents or ppl he was tryin to impress otherwise Fears/phobias: very afraid he’s never gonna amount to anything or be Good Enough. despite this, he feels lost on the path of life, and this bothers him a lot as well Bad or petty habits: the booze repeatedly mentioned probably counts here too. he has a tendency to pick fights, or get flirtatious out of boredom. he can be very petty and a dirty fighter if you get on his nerves. also despite being a generally good and friendly guy he’s a bit of a “frat bro” type who can be bad at solving messes he’s made whether those are emotional or physical Grudges and vendettas: Conflictedly Bitter At His Parents, also very big grudge towards the inquest particularly maat What gets them flustered: a lot of things can, tho his personality becomes dulled and sluggish when he’s drunk. he’s sensitive about feeling like he’s being judged and may pick a fight if he feels you’re looking at him wrong Ingrained habits/forces of habit: idk if he has many of these.. i’ll chew on this one What it takes to make them cry: cake is Not an easy crier but can get very emotional when certain emotional sore spots of his are treaded upon Dark secrets/’skeletons in the closet’: he’s very clammed up about a lot of his backstory Regrets: many, he chews over his past actions a lot. regrets not doing or saying things sooner, regrets not wording things the right way, regrets not doing More than he did, regrets not being able to make as much of a difference as he wanted to, regrets letting people get their claws around his psyche and regrets being so vulnerable and letting other ppl rule or judge him Things they’ll never admit: he’s conflicted and has a tough time deciding on how he feels about his parents. he often feels like maybe his issues with his parents were him more self-projecting stuff and they weren’t as harsh on him as he feels like they were. naturally this is very tough for him to admit to himself People they’ve hurt or indirectly killed, and how it affected them: doesn’t like killing, but is a bit desensitized to it as it’s been a big role in his backstory. he can only steel himself against it if he’s convinced the people he’s killing are Bad/would threaten him/his allies if still alive. he bottles a lot of regret he feels from killing ppl who might’ve not deserved it

aaaaaaand bday!

Their physical weak spots: answered in previous ask Their emotional/moral weak spots: bday wants to feel Good Enough and feel like he’s carving his own life path that amounts to something, and that he Matters to at least someone. he’s never been allowed to think for himself too much, so it’s been easy for people to get their clutches around this and take advantage of him Scars or painful spots: answered in previous ask Best places to kiss on their body: bday has not really Experienced kisses but around the ears/jaw/neck and the Belly is good Guilty pleasures: bday loves 2 read and stargaze but he feels guilty about these bc they’re not what’s Expected of him, how fuckt up is that. bday’s had some rough luck Their vices (physical or emotional): ....ffffoood i guess? bday loves to eat and he comfort eats a whole ton Humiliating memories: way too many. anything involving him getting somehow Bested especially in front of his parents is pretty bad. he’s always felt an intense pressure, from external and internal forces but originally inflicted by external, to be the Best. he doesn’t necessarily feel uppity about wanting to surpass everyone, he just can’t deal with the idea that he’s slipping below what he Should be Fears/phobias: very afraid of all his strife amounting to nothing. on a deeper level, afraid he’s never going to get any respite and is gonna spend his whole life just struggling over everything. he’s afraid the bad stressful situations are never gonna end, that he’s just doomed to this. very afraid also he’ll never be Good Enough Bad or petty habits: he has an eye for an eye policy and will get resentful and sadistic if you Tarnish him or his rep or safety in any way, and try to lunge back at you and give you a taste of your own medicine Grudges and vendettas: big grudge against his parents esp his mom What gets them flustered: answered in previous ask Ingrained habits/forces of habit: never ever ever ever removes his goggles in front of people, never removes them unless he has to when he’s completely alone and even then he paranoidly surveys the room constantly and keeps them on his forehead if possible. in general is paranoid and always ready to go into fight or flight mode What it takes to make them cry: a whole lot bc he’s suppressed emotion city Dark secrets/’skeletons in the closet’: he’s clammed up about like everything possible incl a lot of stuff i’ve listed here. bday is a very emotional and complex person who’s hellbent on operating like nothing is wrong and he’s convinced it’s Bad to succumb to his emotions.. he doesn’t like conveying to anyone that he’s got Cracks in him Regrets: answered in previous ask Things they’ll never admit: nnnnot sure what to answer here that doesn’t dance too much around spoilers for my PoF story? People they’ve hurt or indirectly killed, and how it affected them: a lot. he’s steeled himself to it. he’s been raised to not feel empathy for others and has been spoonfed the idea that it’s just his professional job and that the people he hurts or kills are Wrong somehow, that if he’s ordered to dispatch someone then it clearly must be Justified. he is not encouraged to think for himself, and so he bottles feelings  

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Sunset of the Great Ape

Looking back at history how did humans live some 2000 or 5000 years ago?

They lived in joint families of closely or loosely related by blood as the inner core. A few such cores formed a village or kabila. The men did all the outside work - farming, hunting, blacksmithy, pottery, protection; the women did all the inside work - child rearing, keeping the house, cooking, washing, building social networks, collectively looking after a pool of infants and kids. 

People rarely moved 100 miles outside of their birthplace in their lives unless forced by famine or war.

Life expectancy was around 50 years probably, but there was always a pipeline of younger boys and girls growing up to take the slack as adults aged out and died after brief illnesses. Men had total control over womens activities and bodies, but the collective pool of women including grandmas did give her a place to shelter and seek support if the husband treated her badly. These grandmas who were the mothers of these men exerted some influence on the clan as leaders and social bridges.

The next phase was development of technology which made all the tough physical outside work a bit easier from around1500AD onwards and more and more wars and migrations, which meant a lot of men died or were away for years but someone still had to cover the outside work.

Technology like machines for production and agriculture (stuff like power looms, power tools) meant more and more women could come out and work if there was a need (like in WW2 a lot of american women joined work in factories), or if  if the husband abandoned her or died.

The gender roles became a bit diffuse and much became part of a set of common tasks that anyone could do like running a printing press or sewing a bag. Women were still stereotyped into “womanly” jobs like secretary, sewing, midwife, maids, food industry and the “deep thinking/command and control” jobs like professors, tool makers, generals, politicians were nearly 100% men.

As water continues to erode rocks the diffusion of power and control continued. Monogamy got religious sanction and started to get enforced, thrashing the wife was no longer seen as a cool thing to do by the clergy which kept a section of men in line, while others continued to run wild and also philander. Education became the norm for women upto some basic level as countries continued to grow richer and richer…albeit education was mostly not in STEM but in “home science” type things to make a good wife out of her in her designated role -the designation matrix being entirely in the hands of men. 

New tools of social control of women were devised - religious texts, historical norms, lack of strength, lack of brains, lack of 100% attention to kids/husband if working being a thoughtcrime, media projecting a certain image of what made a woman happy, laying a guilt trip on her …. times changed , tools and levers of control also changed from physical thrashings and social ostracism to more subtle formats aimed at “shaping” and “funneling” her tastes into the right funnels. why do we need to fight someone if you can control their educational and career choices by more subtle means? winning without a war is the best victory…

Moving to the late 20th century, there are almost no physically demanding jobs left in the rich countries, everything being highly mechanised. Of those that are left, womens nutrition is now enough they are no longer stunted and can handle such jobs easily. the fraction of jobs barred to women is reducing all over the world including the developing countries. Last barriers like active military service have fallen. in all of the highest paying jobs like law, finance, judiciary, medicine, design, electronics, software, automotive, academics …. there is little need for any physical strength or great mobility. any of sound mind can work these and indeed physically challenged people also do.

in parallel the rich nations diverged two ways

The Nanny State - a cradle to grave support system. the northern european model of high taxation but high social benefits including a guaranteed old age pension, child bearing tax benefits and aid, unemployment aid, subsidized housing, subsidized higher education . reduce the rich poor living std gap to extent possible and take care of the bottom 20% by taxing the top 20% heavily. This is built on the accumulated wealth of 500 years of colonial resource grab from other countries and 800 years of relative peace in europe permitting universities and knowledge to be sustainably built. It is perhaps not sustainable over next few decades with a declining population, hostility to immigration and losing the technology lead to other parts of the world.

The “Anglo” Model - trade off social benefits and economic regulations in favour of higher growth, higher take home income and let the “market” and “competition decide” what happens. This has corralled the bottom 20% in a circular loop of no economic mobility across generations and poor benefits, with the kind of jobs they could have done exported to the “third” world esp china and central america. the top 20% make good money and compete to send their kids to the best universities for their perpetual occupation of the commanding heights in the most lucrative sectors. pious homilies are spun about “opportunity” and “affirmative action” for the underpriviledged and every politician wants to “fix the schools” and “let none be left behind”. the anglo block of usa, canada, nz, aus, and partially uk seem to follow this model.

The poorer nations including India are in two buckets

those that are living in the middle ages wrt to opportunity for women relative to the leading edge - almost the entire 58 or such countries of the islamic block, most of africa, most of central & south america and rural pockets of many nations incl india and eastern europe

urban pockets all over which generally follow a hybrid anglo model - less money than anglos, and less taxes than nanny states, as nobody has a pile of looted colonial era money or the political capital to have a northern europe nanny state - population is too high in the tropics. increases in cost of living has forced women to work from high to low - whether a maid supporting her security guard husband, or a IT managers wife doing a job to increase savings and pay down huge EMIs, all are on the treadmill now. and the treadmill never stops. 

if we consider it as a rope, the head of the rope is northern europe, middle is america and tail is the developing world.

And what do we see in northern europe/america?

young people have abandoned organized religion enmasse. 

young people have no real interest in slogging decades through marriage and raising kids , separation rates are at record highs

more and more are willingly childless or are stopping at below replacement fertility rate(1.3 children/woman) - an example is japan , italy 

there is rejection of intermarriage with the growing number of african and muslim migrants due to religious and racial fault lines

the nanny state continues to look after people , whether single, separated, widowed does not matter…

In developing nations?

many conservative societies continue to be a pressure cooker about women’s freedom of opportunity and free speech, desperately trying to exist like a oil droplet and survive by the cosy old mores of male control.But the steam is periodically now coming out as the triple talaq issue shows, or the change in ways of such women once they move out of the male dominated milieu into the wider world despite the strong early childhood indoctrination

in less conservative societies, only the lack of a nanny state and money is holding back millions and millions of women from walking out of rather unhappy marriages - people may wax eloquent about sanskriti and sanskari naari but give people the guaranteed support of a nanny state and see the effect.

its very hard to find a young educated woman these days who definitely wants 2+ kids on her own unless the husband has a fetish for 2+. even in the generation now in late 30s and 40s, many many stopped at 1, driven by economic reality -wife has to work to generate savings, lack of grandparents support for childcare and career aspirations meaning most people now move to other places to work.

Some arguments can be made

Everyone by biological nature tries to maximise their advantages - if the male dominated order held the leash earlier, the emergent women’s networks have found ways to destroy and discredit the dominant gorilla male chimps even if belatedly but with lethal network effects like the #metoo revelations. None are in jail yet, but their position in public life and the income streams attached to that have become untenable and these men will only be able to retire into quiet anonymity at best - a crushing blow to the ego of public figures used to the heady drug of being in limelight and popular

Freedom once attained is rarely if ever voluntarily relinquished

The nature of work is almost totally going to be unisex 

Life is become safer both from physical violence and microbial infections - urban middleclass+ women no longer need a “protector” type man hovering around to lead their day to day life unless they inhabit a lawless region. conveniences are increasing, the app based delivery model being a recent one.

Women are generally happier in networks of other women,than trying to fit into some male “bro” culture like golfing, fishing, tall tales and old school buddies meeting over old monk rum and debating over school crushes  … their topics of life interest are vastly different. No woman in india probably has any interest in what are the political dynamics of the syrian civil war or the finding of a new species of tortoise in patagonia under a rock. Some men could debate for hours on it . Every village has a troop of old men who sit under a tree reading every newspaper, talking and giving comments to everyone passing by … nobody will notice a troop of old women doing that.

The “desire” for sex as men think of it (conventional penetrative sex) likely bores to death some 95% of women as they never reach a climax through it unless the man lends a hand to it (pun intended) after the act, rather than roll over and snore loudly, though 95% of men think its ok, and access to sex is a core need and a entire huge industry (porn industry) is built around that thoughtsphere. For women its probably as important as say a mildly interesting monthly project like cleaning the chest of drawers or getting a visit to a new salon. So if men think their ability to provide sex on demand (mostly to mens benefit) is going to “glue” the cracked pottery together, I think they are much mistaken. Women in general can get by very well pleasuring themselves or entering into mildly LGBT type relationships for that 5% slice of the round pie chart that defines all of a persons “needs in life”. Men might want sex every day if they can, a single good session can last women a long time.

The fabric of the organized monogamic nuclear family with religious sanction is fraying and the rips are growing larger.

Where does the rabbit hole lead to? 

I think it leads to groups of women, who might be siblings, relatives or friends rearing a pool of children and working together as in the old clan days but with no or very few men around permanently. Some variant a matriarchal system, or whatever you may call it, but 4 generations of women could be living under a mutually supportive network with the men being ghar jamai for limited time to donate their seed and then pack it off back to lone tusker mode until let back in to get another bowl of the cream on some occasions. 

The fact that women cope with old age and maintaining social relations much better is well known. A old widow will manage and retain social contacts, a old widower will soon be a shambles and fall apart. Groups of women living and growing old together is very much probable, whether men are totally out of scene or a limited presence. in any rich country, women always have greater average lifespans and much less prone to the self abusive and indisciplined patterns of behaviour that cut men’s lives short by years and sometimes decades. 

Men become cranky with age and revert to being children, women continue to gain wisdom and stature and become matriarchs.

It is also inevitable that genetic engineering will soon find ways to make the “seed” (mens last remaining trump card) artificially in the laboratory. rubber -a natural product, was synthesized in the lab by germany to meet wartime shortage and british control of malaya and so will this precious “seed/beej” and that will be the last glacing blow sending men into a kind of irrelevance. The world needs lot of rubber but maybe only a few large vats of seed per annum to keep things um ticking over. And things can be manipulated at genetic level far better in the lab through splicing and editing to edit out the “bad” and usher in the “good” traits of the day - like a potential high earning biochemistry Phd who also runs 100m in 10.5 seconds, does not smoke and is a great cook - all programmed at birth.

Nature is wise and many ancient animals live in this mode, the most promiment being the large mammals who live decades like whales, elephants - some arctic species have lifespans much longer than humans - under wise matriarchs while the huge and violent males are let inside the door only when babies are needed and then “managed out” on some performance improvement plan. 

One difference from 1:1 monogamy (almost everyone gets a chance to mate) is that probably the top10% of the males get 90% of the “opportunity” in the non-human world and have a disproportionate genetic footprint vs their “weaker” male rivals. The “weak” ones slink around trying to find a gap in the fence + avoid being killed if intercepted, or plot and collude to depose the incumbent king. And find it hard hunting or gathering food alone, which matriarch led herds of juveniles and mature females do far more safely and efficiently.

The age of the male ape having first right to all resources including women is over. The sun has set on it on parts of the world and the shadows are creeping into our longitudes too. Just as our kids will all drive EV cars not fossil fuel cars, I am no longer sure of many things…

I am not saying its “fair” or even the best thing to happen, but I am saying thats where the ball is rolling.