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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4878544" data-attributes="member: 22779">Wow.  Just... wow.We've gone from "be aware of the social climate of these stories" to outright banning and book burning.This is why these conversations are virtually impossible to have.  The second, the millisecond anyone says that maybe, just maybe, we should look at a work with a critical eye and maybe, just maybe, we should not simply ignore and whitewash the message in these stories, it's all about censorship and book burning.I'm sure there's some funky latin phrase for people taking an argument to an extreme, and then trying to claim that's the point, but, meh, I can't be asked to remember it to be honest.My entire, sole, solitary, singular, lone point is that pulp fiction of the early 20th century is frequently bigoted and mysogynistic and that perhaps we should base our game on works that aren't that.I guess that's just censorship and I should just ignore it.Me?  Me, I'd rather have characters who aren't based in cultural imperialism and all the joys that come with that era.  I guess I'd rather think that modern women aren't just "hot-house flowers preoccupied with sex and frail as a clothes-hanger" but are people in their own right, pretty much equal to everyone else.  Y'all have fun now.  This conversation's pretty much done.  Once it's hit the point where people can't argue the topic without resorting to blowing it way over the top, it's just not worth it.</blockquote>

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