Yesterday a well-intentioned local friend (who knows I've been struggling to find enough income to help me reach a critical long term stability goal) sent me a job posting for Spanish speakers...
to spy on Spanish-speaking populations for government.
Ah. No.
Not that I'd ever get the job if I were to apply for it (so my moral objection is moot) - but it's always fascinating to see what others don't even realize might run afoul of a friend's ethics.
Hope your own weekends are less narc-y! :)
"Crikey" is right-key! 🙃
@MLClark That's... really something.
Just picturing you setting up shop as a simple tailor. 🙃
@JakeA 😭 Oh Garak.
I know he's got a thriving life in fanfic, but the acute *loneliness* of his existence in that difficult role always breaks my heart.
What a great series. I'm currently rewatching Voyager & crushed at how simplistic it is in contrast to DS9 & TNG with respect to gender & relationships.
It's not even that it's very straight; it's that all the relationships are simplistic, patronizing, or abusive. There's none of TNG's fluid "I'm friends with my past lovers" here. Alas.
(One good example is that Seska sexually violates Chakotay, claiming to have stolen and impregnated herself with his sperm while he was kidnapped... and it's just played as a cliffhanger ending. No wrestling with the trauma of violation. That, and the Doctor's dismissal of men fighting over Kes as something she should be flattered by, & Tom's... Tomness... are just taken as givens - but in TNG & DS9 there's no way such things would be tolerated. It's a very gender-reductive production.)
@JakeA And all of this is BEFORE the showrunners get impatient with ratings, throw in Seven, and make her front-and-center of most every plotline to leverage sex appeal for views in later seasons. Sigh.
@MLClark I share your pain in regards to the weirdly reductive writing. I got through Voyager very quickly, mostly because it gave me nothingnto chew on. Except maybe Tuvix 😆
On my second and my partner's first watch of DS9, we're just kind of taking the subtext as text with Garak and Bashir. Makes for a better watch, at least before they introduce some love interests because "they're totally straight guys don't worry!".
@MLClark Also, I'm enjoying S3 of Discovery because it seems to be starting to actually mean something, and that the world doesn't exist solely to justify the character drama. But I just watched Unification III and all that imploded in a single scene with a mother-daughter drama serving as an appeal to vulcan emotion. Very soap opera.
I stay for Saru and Tilly (though they seem to have artificially reduced Tilly's self confidence again, which is upsetting).
@MLClark oh my.
I know there is an unfortunate history of anthropologists spying on people for governments; crikey