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You're solving the wrong problem by including this asterisk. It's easy to just call the genie "it" - which you already did above - and pick a different action - "rip off your arms" would work as well.
I read this and at first I was like, "Damn! Not only did my anti-sexism plan fail, it made me even more sexist!" but then I was all, "No way! I'm going to find a bunch of evidence that genies can't be neuter! That'll show 'em! Show all of them." but then I read the Wikipedia article and it goes, "The pre-Islamic Zoroastrian culture of ancient Persia believed in jaini/jahi, evil female spirits thought to spread diseases to people." and I was totally like, "God fucking damnit! That's like... sexism squared!"
Well you might have won this round, Yudkowsky. But you haven't seen the last of me!
But that would be less funny.
Incidentally, being kicked in the crotch isn't exactly pleasant for women, either...
Yes, but he didn't say "crotch", he said "nads". Female gonads (ovaries) are internal, so we could be kicked in the nads in the same sense as it is possible to kick someone "in", say, the kidney. It's just not a traditional target.
::reads that again::
::investigates definitions of "nads"::
Wow.
I have just been owned.
Consider me extremely impressed. Having been soundly outmatched in the battle of nitpicking, I am hereby reduced to making fawning fanboy puppy dog noises.
::takes deep breath::
oh-my-god-i'm-not-worthy-can-I-have-your-autograph-will-you-marry-me-teach-me-oh-great-master-squee-etc-etc...
::runs out of breath::
Phew. I hope I got that out of my system. Let's see...
::still has the completely ridiculous urge to propose marriage::
Guess not.
::sighs::
I have now acquired yet another pointless Internet crush. Oh well, nothing to do but try to ignore it...
No, I will not marry you. I do, however, accept Internet crushes and encourage you to accordingly familiarize yourself with my works of fiction and tell all your friends about them. :)
You can have my autograph if you commission a work of art.
Hello, I went through the archive of your magical girl comic. I'm gonna keep my eye on it.
The way the premise is presented is nonsensical, but that's a-ok in the genre, and I suspect you just wanted to through the setup quickly. Girls' publicity is a nice twist to the trope, and I hope you'll explore it thoroughly. I really like the tiny dragons - my favorite strip involves them. Oh, and the fact that the girls are not lawful stupid (a too common disorder among magical girls) is a big, big plus.
On the flipside, I think you should work on backgrounds and perspective more. Especially Datekaln - painting its sky solid green doesn't do it justice. At least make a reusable texture like you did with Earth's sky presumably.
Thanks for the feedback. Everybody loves the pagets and everybody loves that page - I should change the title to "Pagets Are Cute (and some silly humans sometimes do things)."
Backgrounds are very tedious and unrewarding to draw, so my progress on them is slow. I'll mess with possible simple textures for Datékaln's sky, though, since that's easy. (Earth's sky is just the Photoshop cloud filter.)