I keep seeing other posts about this that are confusing two separate issues, so here I am again. There are two major pain points with Medicaid: 1. Qualification / means testing 2. Estate recovery / clawbacks These are different things!

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it's so insulting to me to see "well insubstantial work is inherently FEMININE and you can't dislike it without being misogynist"

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For me, cozy feels inhuman. It shaves away the difficult in the pursuit of comfort, not as a subjective experience, but like an HOA standard for a "nice" neighborhood. That character you identify with? Innocent. The people hurt? Bad. You are good for adhering to neighborhood rules. Leading to this:

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We really need to get into the gender essentialism happening here. Cozy=girly/Scary=man. It's incredibly anti-feminist patriarchal framing in the service of defending a straight guy against an actual nonbinary queer person who presents very feminine. I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind.

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I will never forget a moot, blithely unaware of the harassment Dorian was enduring following their L&L essay and critique of cozy as a marketing ploy, asking, “but if there’s a market for it, why is that bad? Can it hypothetically be good?”

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