In response to that “colonial garrison” post everyone hated

For me, a good point of judgment on whether a feminist argument makes any sense is “would my mother agree with the basic grievance here?” She’s not versed in feminist theory, but she’s open-minded and aware, and she doesn’t blame herself for other people’s bigotry. When she’s treated poorly because of her sex, she notices.

A LOT of the feminist arguments that provoke responses about “scrupulosity” are things where my mother wouldn’t agree with the initial grievance. So if feminism is driving you into a depressive tailspin, you have my mother’s indirect endorsement to not worry so much.

(I wasn’t even offended by that post, but hoo boy did it dredge up a lot of anger. I’m not linking it because it’s caused enough wank already.)

I’m reading a manhua called Retired Heroes

I’m really liking the cosmology at work here. Legend says that angels came from primordial order and demons came from primordial chaos, but neither is pure order or chaos anymore. We’ve met a lot of good angels and evil demons, but they can vary as individuals, just as humans can. (In particular, the demons we see who were raised outside of demon society are horrified by the more violent aspects of demon culture.) 

Then we’ve got the other representatives of chaos. No one actually knows whether they’re one or more entities that somehow exist outside the ordered universe, or the embodied will of the entire disordered space. Either way, they come from a place where all matter is randomly intermingled to the point of being indistinguishable. Their response to our world, where matter is separated into distinct objects, is to destroy everything in sight. Some powerful demons can summon them and pick a target, but looking at them can cause madness even in the demon who summoned them.

This invites a question that has so far gone unanswered: if Lovecraftian horror is the purest chaos, then is there a purest order?