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[sisterswitch]

Hey, everyone - Jack here. Or, I guess some of you might know me as “that evil lying bitch from Dualis who only cares about herself.”

[ahem, that’d be jane. not that jack’s still holding a grudge or anything.]

Anyway, the important thing here is that Navi asked me to pass on a message to the group, which is that they’ve picked up on a passenger who is in a great deal of distress but too far away to get a clear link of communication. In other words, one of our merry little band is missing and having an aggressively bad time way out in the woods.

So, consider this a roll call. Time is meaningless out here in the void, so nobody knows if it’s 10 o’clock, but do you know where your partner is? Who’s missing, and who wants to go rescue them from the big bad scary possibly haunted forest?

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[sisterswitch]

Yeah, that might be for the best. No one here actively hates you yet, so you might have better luck recruiting.

[jack sits up and shifts to one side of the bed to make room for murmur, patting the open space as an invitation to take a seat.]

Of course I don't have objections, silly. Friends sit together on beds all the time, or so I'm told. In fact, teenage girls are well known for sitting on beds together - painting each others' nails, doing each others' hair, gossiping about boys ... you know, girl stuff.

[albatrossomen]

I am glad the hostility does not seem to be particularly infectious here.

[Despite Jane's best efforts, no one else treated Jack like she was public enemy number one. Still, their mutual hostilities were making things needlessly difficult.

He did move to settle into the offered seat, taking out his communicator to set about trying to rustle up some assistance. If nothing else he was fairly confident he could convince Emet-Selch to come along.]

Are they? Is that what constitutes girl stuff? Who decided? And how did it become to be so widely known?

[Explain your strange 90's movie culture to him, Jack, he is very confused and intrigued!]

[sisterswitch]

An entire library of heteronormative teen girl romcom movies spanning many decades both decided this was so, and made it widely known. [she flashes him a grin and sets her device to the side.] I can't, however, verify all that from firsthand experience. Heteronormative teen girls tend to avoid being in close spaces with the village dyke.

[jack shrugs. so she didn't have the supposedly typical middle class middle american teen girl experience. she mostly doesn't care, but some small part of her sometimes wonders what it would've been like if she'd been included in things like this.]

Gender roles are bullshit anyway. "Girl stuff" is just what the patriarchy decided is appropriate for girls.

[albatrossomen]

[It's a good thing Murmur's quick to contextualize unfamiliar words into a dictionary he can mostly understand, because Jack just tossed a good number out there he's unfamiliar with in short order.]

Explain to me this "romcom" please.

[Except that one, he doesn't understand media yet. Sorry Jack he's behind the times. He did echo her frustration with a light shake of his head, humans could get hung up about the strangest things!]

Of course they are, [The angel is quick to confirm. Those roles, and he is aware how religion is used to enforce them, have no source within the Heavenly realm. Souls, after all, do not possess a gender.] So what is this patriarchy in the context in which you're using it? I am of course familiar with the word, but from you it seems to carry a specific weight.