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[bitch4bitch]

Hey so we gotta get more clothes around here, some people are walking around looking like the last thread holding their pants together is gonna give up the ghost if they get hit with one more cursed flower plague or whatever, and I don’t want to see the results of that

This probably sounds like a joke but I’m serious, who wants to pool some stories so that we can keep everyone in pants

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[barberian]

I... don't think I want to know any of the details.

Of course. I went to barbarian school like everybody else. I don't know what a 'home ec' class is though

[bitch4bitch]

I know i just said I know not everyone here has school, worlds are different, etc etc but okay like

First off, home ec is home economics, it's where they theoretically teach you to cook and sew and all that shit while half the class complains about having to cook and sew. Second you went to WHAT kind of school

[barberian]

Why would you learn that in school? Doesn't your tribe teach you how to do that?

(Yasha isn't fantastic at sewing but she can stitch two things together. She can cook well enough to feed herself. The basics are always important, but she's not sure why you'd waste time learning them in school.)

Barbarian school. To learn to be a barbarian. I guess it wasn't really a school, just other women in my tribe teaching me how to hunt things and kill people. That sort of thing.

[bitch4bitch]

Uuuuh if you mean our families, it kinda depends? Mine taught me a little, some don't at all especially if you're a dude

That sounds cool as hell and was definitely not a thing in New York. it probably should have been

[barberian]

Why would being a dude mean you don't learn basic life skills?

(That doesn't make even a lick of sense.)

Why, what did you learn instead? Aside from the home ec thing.

[bitch4bitch]

Shit I envy you so much right now. Because they're supposed to marry women who will be Mom 2, the sequel to mom, who does all their chores for them

Math, writing, propaganda, all that good shit. I mean the learning was kind of hit or miss on those, but imo they weren't really as important as the fact that cramming a bunch of kids in one building for seven hours a day really has a way of teaching 'em how to either get along or manipulate each other. Or just despise their peers and build their identities around that, like you do

[Okay so she might have some opinions on adolescent socialization]

[barberian]

(You know, this might have seemed a little more ridiculous to Yasha if she weren't from the tribe that she is; as such, she actually... understands perhaps having to marry somebody that you may not necessarily want to.

Even so:) That sounds impractical for the women. And... boring.

(No thank you.)

I don't think that I do... do. But that's because I didn't learn that way. I don't know if the way I was taught was any better but your way is definitely... um, different. Pretty different.

[bitch4bitch]

Yeah basically 100% both of those

God yeah i bet. How'd it work for you?