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Sulphagnist
Oct 10, 2006

WARNING! INTRUDERS DETECTED

Avshalom posted:

the screwfly solution is a short story but it's the only fiction that's ever genuinely scared me

Well, that sure was horrifying. Although "aliens did it" kinda steals from the dread, a religiously induced, socially transmitted impulse that clicks in the heads of adult men would be even more unsettling. But it would drop out the clever parallel from the story which is effective in its own way. Although, if you accept that it isn't part of the epidemic, then the feckless institutional responses to the femicide epidemic (like the chilling missive from the Vatican) still have that weight - maybe this could have been averted with stronger, more egalitarian institutions.

Sulphagnist fucked around with this message at 11:04 on Jul 30, 2016

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