The challenge for the Left Hand of Darkness is that Genly is a misogynist. He is the sole representative of the gender-normative worldview through which the reader is challenged. Watching the protagonist struggle with distaste while saying that some of his genderless hosts are acting “womanly” is entirely the point.

It was an unemployed homeless transgender athiest Muslim illegal immigrant homicidal rapist pedophile drug-lord kingpin from Mexico hired by George Soros, Barack Obama, and Bill Gates that was actually driving the boat.

Yup. And that’s worse.

As I said, there is no explanation for his behavior that doesn’t make him an asshole.

As an immunocompromised person, fuck this guy.

Wouldn’t a sick person wearing a mask on a plane be an act of thoughtfulness? 

Conservatives have effortlessly jumped from, “Nobody should have the right to tell ME what I do with MY body,” to, “I should have the right to tell YOU what to do with your body!”

“I swear to DRUNK, I’m not GOD!”

But that devil muzzle will just make you spread your cancer to the rest of us!!!

I have Crohn’s disease and am on immunosuppressants. I wear masks everywhere. Even if I wasn’t sick, I might still wear them just because I would rather not get Covid if I can help it.

I got yelled at in a CVS once (in very liberal Santa Monica) for wearing a mask by some stranger. I don’t get why he cared. Me wearing…

Yeah, I’ve had the same thought. It used to be that even if most people were assholes —probably true, if unprovable—  most went out of their way to pretend otherwise most of the time, so in any ten given daily interactions, it was unlikely you’d have more than one bad one. But now nobody bothers to pretend otherwise,…

It’s unfortunate that one of my favorite quotes has only recently come to be widely popular...

I had part of my colon removed last month and am having chemo for cancer. I wear a mask everywhere. Fuck Forrie.

And they say liberals are snowflakes. JFC.

There were lots of stories in 2020 about masked people being berated and/or assaulted for wearing a mask in public

2020: Wearing a mask is a choice! You can wear a mask if you like; but you can’t make me wear one.

2024: I cannot be forced to sit next to someone wearing a mask! You wearing a mask is an attack on me!

The ABC’s of conservatism:

He seems to be implying that if the person was wearing a mask, they must have a communicable disease and so he felt unsafe sitting next to them. He himself seems bound and determined to make himself as susceptible to communicable diseases as he possibly can and assumes it is everybody else’s responsibility to keep him…

“I refuse to sit next to someone who is considerate enough to wear a mask in public.  I mean, what kind of twisted freak tries to limit the spread of contagions to others?  Who does that?”

What a snowflake.