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I would expect that most women don't encounter sexism in their everyday lives. And when they do, it will be fairly inconsequential - like street harassment, which honestly barely qualifies.

Then either things are really damn different in NZ or you're basically blind*. Much of it is relatively inconsequential (but then there's plenty of cases where it's not, as well), but in the US it's also completely fucking pervasive in most areas. Gender expectations and poor reactions when they're violated, even a little, is goddamn everywhere; take a half-hour or two in an area with heavy foot traffic and pay attention to what the gender differences in posture and the way people comport themselves for one of the more blatant (and regularly overlooked) examples of it -- if I had money I could bet, I'd bet you you'll notice a difference that isn't explained by difference in bone structure or common footwear even in that short of a time frame.

You can also eyeball just about any authority position that gets approached with regularity (professors are really good targets for that if you've got access to a campus) for a while, and see how the different genders approach, and how the prof reacts, especially when the approach is counter-normative (and I can guaran-damn-tee you you'll notice what's normative for your area in short order if you've got even the most remote of observational capabilities), just as another example. Much of it is relatively small, or at least not overt, but even tiny shit adds up when it's constant, and it very much is constant.

And yes, if it somehow bloody matters, it hits just about everyone. It just hits some harder than others.

*Though, to be fair, a lot of this shit is so commonplace many people just filter it as background noise, stuff that happens all the time and is perfectly normal, even when the slants are painfully clear and the consequences fairly obvious if you think for two seconds. There ain't nothin' normal about the gender difference in inclination towards defensive posture in public places, just as a particularly painful example, and that's something a half-blind scrub drowsing off on a mall bench can notice.

When have you seen any professor being chased out of office for being transphobic?

... has it actually happened? I mean, it's hopefully going to start in the near future, but previously, uh. Transfolk have kinda' been open season in the everywhere, from the basically everyone.

Though insofar as, like, personally encountering situations where professors get kicked out, I can't recall a local-ish one that got kicked out for anything except getting caught screwing their students or some variety of embezzling. I guess people make a big deal about professors getting shanked for doing stupid shit just because it's so goddamn rare, especially for anything that's not ridiculously pedestrian (i.e. not keeping it in their pants).

And TERFs are trans-exclusionary radical feminists, iirc. Mostly old ones, at this point. And ninja'd, ah well.

Eeehhh... it's forgivable if they've got style, imo. Kefka, ferex, was pretty much never on screen being something besides evil (and it's fairly difficult to evil harder than some of what he did, ha), but he got a pretty good reception so far as I'm aware. Admittedly he wasn't on screen at all times, but still.

Clownganking the world excuses a lot.

Don't ask me to find it again, but I remember seeing an article or two noting a fairly distinct correlation between levels of violence (among other things) and the phasing out of lead paint/leaded gasoline. Something like within a few decades of the reduction/removal there's just a noticeable drop in such, that's fairly consistent across cultural/geographic boundaries. Interesting stuff.

Though yeah, the Flint thing. Clusterfuck and a half, blighters that basically caused that problem probably deserve to be shot considering the effects of it and how preventable much of it was. Remember someone noting pretty aptly that there's terrorist groups out there that would give their left nut to be able to poison that much of a US city, heh, and probably would have gotten a few countries leveled if they managed to. Instead, the politicians did it and it barely makes the news~

Neat, heh. Finding the manga actually made me want to reread that a bit. Is definitely way behind in chapter numbers compared to the LN, though, yeah.

And re: Overlord, the LN, again, makes it pretty unequivocal that momobro is straight up evil, or at least ends up that way. I actually drifted away from reading during because what the hell. He's definitely capable of altruistic or otherwise beneficial acts, and may mostly not be aggressively malicious, but good or neutral of any stripe (except maybe neutral evil :V) he is very much not, at least in fairly short order.

The LN's actually entirely explicit that his new form is screwing with his head. Though less contamination and more, y'know, he's a goddamn skeleton and there's lots of little chemicaly-bits that just aren't there anymore, among other things. It's part of some of the more interesting bits of the LN, actually, going into how some of the characters, including the MC, are very much not human, even if they're close in many ways. Not really major plot points or anything, or I'd've spoilered it, but it makes for some occasional pretty decent characterization flares.

E: Seriously though, if you're looking to get into Overlord, read the LN. The manga leaves a lot out, especially in regards to characterization, motivation, etc., etc., and as I noted, insofar as I'm aware the anime's even worse than the manga on that front. The source material is kinda' the best incarnation of the thing.

I'm finding the LN hard to read (maybe this particular translation isn't so good, but it feels like a scatterbrained, long-winded version of the manga)

The translations I've seen do seem a bit rough, but as near as I can tell scatterbrained and long-winded is a fairly accurate descriptor of a good chunk of it, heh. It's very stream of conscious-y with a narrator that's, ah... easily distracted? S'actually probably half the reason I liked it so much, though -- it's a fairly uncommon writing style (especially being not complete shit at the same time ), and oddly pleasing to me. You really get a feel for the character just in the way the story's told.

... also I didn't even know there was a manga >_>