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Well... yeah, when given the choice between freezing to death and prison, there's folks out there that do petty crime/minor felonies to get somewhere warm for winter. It pretty much wrecks any chance they may have had going forward, and possibly ruins them in the process, but sure.

Given pretty much any other option, though, most people are going to take the other option. Prison in the states is not a good place to be, and when/if you get out of it, it makes whatever's left of your life much worse off. Even if it means sixty hour work weeks and living half or better your life out of a car. Possibly even especially then, because doing prison time would bloody close to guarantee there's no chance you're going to get better than that. May be a little exaggeration in that, but... not much.

I know solid handful of few ex-cons, some of them family, and they're part of the demographic my mother teaches. In the states, if you have absolutely any bloody choice whatsoever between prison/a felony record and something else, you almost certainly take the something else. Prison is a viable alternative IFF the other option is death... and even then, you're gambling on a fate potentially worse.

... can't it be both?

... probably hundreds if I actually sat down and started listing them. Which is one of the reasons I never get around to sitting down and starting to list them.

Out of that stuff... Overlady, stuff by gabriel blessing. Then, like. A crapload of other junk. Lot of stuff (though not all) of the stuff open in that thing are at-least-readable-by-my-(fairly low)-standards.

I'm expecting a whole bunch of answers like that, and then someone will timidly present some modestly positive story that goes against the grain.

Ehn... been at a bit of a distance, but what I've seen of library work hasn't seemed too terrible. Personal interaction has been mostly volunteer, but the workers I've worked with have been pretty upbeat about things, general appreciation seems relatively high, and customer base (such as it is) was pretty nice where I volunteered at. It's definitely work, especially as the library size goes up, but not too backbreaking. Haven't even heard too many horror stories from folks in bigger areas, which is like amazing.

Pay's usually iffy and good goddamn luck getting the work (fairly saturated and shrinking, iirc), but... there you go.

E: Non/not-for profit in general seems to lean more toward that kind of thing than, well, more directly commercial ventures. At least from what I've seen. Problem is making a bloody living doing that kind of thing, hum.

Problem is, some feminists see it as an utopia to work towards.

The actual word you're looking for is "misandrist", not feminist.

Look, in a world where 50 shades of grey is actually popular, I'm not going to be too disgruntled when lesbians dream of a world where it is safe to hit on another girl and assume her sexuality matches their own gender for once.

Haha, you assume it's lesbians writing stuff that's basically no!man land.

Well, there probably are some, sure, but there's a non-negligible amount of dudes (and hetero/bi women, I suppose) that get off on that sort of thing. Or find it an interesting scenario to contemplate. Hell, there's at least one anime that starts off with the premise of gender separated planets at war with each other for generations.

... some day I might actually watch it.

Condolences, Soli, and g'luck. If you were closer, I could probably arrange a place to crash for a while, but...

... it seemed to be trying so hard, right up until the "pheramones [sic] and such etc."