WINTER WRAP-UP!

[rarities]

[Good morning, Paradisa! You know what today is. That's right, it's WINTER WRAP-UP!!! Now that you've gotten your note about your task -- put on your coats, scarves, and gloves, and get to work!]

CASTLE SHOVELING | CLOUD MOVING | WILDLIFE AWAKENING | PUTTING OUT THE FIRES | ICE SCORING | CASTLE SEED PLANTING | BIRD DIRECTING | BIRD NESTS | TOWER CLEANING | CITY STREET PLOWING | CITY FOOD PLANTING | ORGANIZATION TEAM

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Comments

[molotov]

If it makes you feel any better, he never wins.

[assassino]

[It does. :')]

Good.

[molotov]

Believe it or not, I do think that Samson's willingness to fight me at all is a compliment. He has... some chivalrous tendencies that he would indulge if he thought I was weak.

I would prefer to be considered his equal, if the alternative is to be something he must protect and coddle.

[assassino]

I don't understand. How can it be something terrible for a man to protect a woman and be chivalrous? It is entirely for her benefit.

[molotov]

I do not think it is terrible, but it implies that a woman needs protection. If she likes that, fine. But I have worked for many years to be capable of defending myself against anything that may come my way. It is an insult to my hard work for a man to think he needs to "protect" me.

I do not mind other tenets of chivalry, I suppose. Opening doors and such. But that is really just basic politeness.

[assassino]

He may not need to, but perhaps he wants to, to show his affections.

[molotov]

I do not mind if he feels the need to "defend" me from... the attention of other men, as it were. I actually find that sort of adorable. But it is insulting to me if a man thinks he needs to defend me from danger.

[assassino]

I simply cannot understand why it would be insulting. It does not suggest that you cannot defend yourself -- only that he will do it for you, because he cares for your safety.

[molotov]

It is insulting because I can do it better than he can, and because most men do not defend women out of love, but rather because they believe that they must.

[assassino]

Have you asked him why he does it?

[molotov]

Samson does not do that, I was speaking in general.

[assassino]

Then why are you complaining, if he doesn't do it to you?

[molotov]

I thought we were just having a discussion.

[assassino]

[Pause.]

Fair enough. You just seem determined to discredit men who have good intentions. That just seems amiss when there are so few of them.

[molotov]

I have no intention to "discredit" anyone. I simply think it is important for people to think about why they are doing something. It is wrong to defend a woman any more than you would defend a man, just because you think she is less capable of doing it herself.

[assassino]

So should men stop to ask women every time, "are you capable of defending yourself?" instead of making an assumption? Better that than assume that they are perfectly fine, I think.

[molotov]

Men and women should all defend each other equally.

[assassino]

Easier said than put in practice, madonna, especially if men in your time still look to protect women. Does that not say that it is natural for men to look out for the safety of their women?

[molotov]

Or that it is a behavior that has been ingrained for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

[assassino]

That's as good as nature, then, is it not?

[molotov]

Not if it is predicated on the idea that women are lesser than men.

[assassino]

I suppose that is true, but difficult to accept.

[molotov]

Why is that difficult for you to accept?

[assassino]

Because I have been told the opposite for my entire life. After 28 years, even if what I am hearing makes sense, it does not match what I have been told all along.

Imagine someone came to you and told you that North was up and South was down. You'd have trouble believing it, no?

[molotov]

I would not, because North is up, and South is down. [what, ezio. what are you talking about.]

But if someone presented me with information contradictory to something I have always known one way, I would think about why my beliefs are what they are. Why, exactly, do you believe that women are less than men?