Before the shipyard fired me for being trans, I was hiring a new counterpart that was originally auto rejected for spelling out the full name of the qualification on their resume instead of using the acronym. Cause the HR people had no idea the two were the same thing. "Automation" helps no one.

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one of the big things that continues to kill her: unable/unwilling to pick a fight or take a swing at anyone, no matter how justified, popular, or necessary

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Alan Moore's also someone who's comparable...but/and someone who challenges his own investment in tropes much more, and has a much wider range of pop culture touchstones.

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Verhoeven always recognized "these tropes are kind of fucked up" but is never willing to actually go anywhere but where the tropes take him. In that sense he's perpetually disappointing (though his movies are often a ton of fun to watch.)

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I mean...he's an interesting director, and I think is in fact very self-aware about what he's doing. He's also really into pulp tropes, though, and I think wants to make money. Which limits him.

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