So you just pray there are no mosquitos at eye level, or does everybody in the vicinity of this machine have to wear ‘anti laser glasses’?

Us. There will always be people who enjoy power games and needless cruelty, that’s just how we are as a species and what all the religions, empires and industries we’ve ever had have been based on.

We’re not capable of being better, the power games and cruelty have always been too well rewarded. It’s ingrained.

Step on the little man to get ahead, prove your place by ostracising the witch, genocide/crusade/colonise to acquire land and spread your religion, fabricate wars to steal resources, vote for the leaders who hate the same people you hate, etc.

It might not be all of us who do this, but it’s always been the majority and they keep winning.

Any attempt at a moral and just society full of like minded people, is always going to end by power games and needless cruelty, either from the people within it or from the people outside it.

That’s just how we are as a species. Collectively, we suck.

It’s guilt by association for those of us who aren’t needlessly cruel and power hungry, but it’s still valid as we will never be able to escape these systems of oppression created and upheld by the rest of our species.

I believe that’s actually a modern perception and textiles were originally a male dominated field.

Yeah, fuck all the female dominated histories of all the various textile cultures around the world, someone on the internet told me it was men who probably did it first, and women obviously just copied them! So if men want to get into textiles again now they have every right to push out any reminder of women ever being involved!

Just to be clear, the above paragraph is sarcasm. Exasperated but unsurprised, sarcasm.

The need to de-centre women from traditionally female technologies, crafts and occupations in order to appeal and cater to men’s interests, is kinda upsetting though.