Thread by @garius

So some of you have asked why you haven't heard about Lieutenant Sweetwine before.

I want to be very blunt here:

It's not deliberate, but it does happen. We write out of history women who achieve things, but have to work within the system to do so.

It needs to stop.

https://twitter.com/garius/status/1446447850326564868

I don't know how to make it clearer than that. I am default, videogame NPC looking motherfucker. And most of my later life heroes are women I should have heard about, as a kid, and didn't.

That makes me beyond angry. I was robbed.

And we need to stop that happening for boys now

It's not fucking woke. It's not "liberal".

It's just basic fucking facts.

I was brought up to believe I should be the best person I should be. And sexism robbed me of so many examples of how I can be that. And it made me think I wasn't allowed female heroes.

Fuck off with that

I want boys to have heroes who are girls.

I was thirty. THIRTY. before I realised I was allowed that. And it took patient women to convince me of that.

That shouldn't happen. It's fucked up.

It's not fair. It's not right.

Let's build a better future.

So yeah. You fuckers in my DMs who tell me you LOVE my stuff. But who "just ask the question" why I thread a lot about my female heroes: that's why.

Because I was robbed of them. And I'm fucking angry about that. And I will be fucked if I'm not going to shout about them now.