Vae asks...

[sythyry]

The apology do I make now for not replying so well the last of my questions; each and every response that comes to me I shall give a reply today.

And -- what sort of monsters do you and your people suffer from?

Comments

[redbird]

It's not entirely unfounded; the lines between healing tech and malicious mentador are not always clear. There are still many who would "heal" some of us of who and how we love, for example. (For Vae's information: in many places in my world, a marriage between two women, or two men, of the same species is rejected and treated as a sign of disease, sometimes with more hostility than traff primes find in most parts of the World Tree.)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Not happily would I accept this hostility! For my wife and I are both women, much of the time, and terrible monsters are we, and thus should not visit your world unless it is to bring great and widespread woe.

[redbird]

Nor do many of us accept it happily. Some of us manage something similar to what you suggest—for example, I usually try to avoid places where I'm likely to meet this hostility, especially if I'm with my female partner. And I spend some energy on trying to enlighten some of the ignorant, and tell others like me who are stuck in such bad places that they are not alone, and that the world isn't all like that.

There are days when I would wish you and your wife on some of the evil-doers: the ones who are not merely ignorant, but actively enjoy their hatred, or encourage it in others because they think it will help them gain power or money.