So today’s object lesson in obliviousness comes, as it so often does, from the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit.
The regulars there are discussing the important topic “Women are worse than a backyard full of cackling hens,” and one of the fellas pipes up with this, er, observation.
MGTOW dudes, I don’t know if you know this, but men do sex work too. I recommend you take it up for a week and see how “easy” it is.
That’s a really interesting take on dwarves.
I actually would like to read more, but this might not be the place for it. If you could give me a link then I’d love to read it.
cf. the sheer number of times Pratchett specifically and deliberately has a story-line focussing on showing that you cannot have a whole reviled/feared/denied species/race without discovering that they are in fact made up of individuals who vary, think, want, love, create, destroy, suffer etc. and turn out to be people, not things.
He does it particularly overtly with the trolls, the golems* and the goblins … but also to a lesser extent with the dwarves, werewolves and vampires (lesser extent inasmuch as they are introduced as individual and variable from the start, and Pterry looks mostly at Vimes’ initial reactions to them) … and I can’t remember right now, doesn’t he do this with several other species too? Not to mention taking the piss out of clichéd representations of other cultures all the time, as in Jingo and Interesting Times.
(* I will never not love his scene with all the priests and the ceramic atheist)
Opposablethumbs:
In later Discworld books, Pterry also does it with orcs and finally – I shit you not – elves.
Of course then there are zombies, Igors and the “Legal Feegle” Mad Arthur.