Some people are very forceful with animals and disrespectful of boundaries with them. I think that cats especially are good at making it clear what they would like or not like you to do.
Maybe it's an unfair criteria to judge people on but people forcing animals to do things or otherwise treating them like objects is a red flag to me.
Manulsphere
Pretty sad that this is even needed tbh but it's all very well put.
I think a good indicator of how people really are with the idea of consent and boundaries (even if they charm their way with other social conventions) is to watch them with pets, especially cats.
Stardew Valley, Skyrim and ADOM for games that you can keep going back to over years and playing in different ways and still discovering new things. Vegas Solitaire for more of a mindless time passer when you don't want something immersive and involved. Burnout Paradise for something in between complex and mindless and something different once in a while.
Edit: I hope I eventually get rescued though because there's a LOT of shorter titles that I'd miss.
The Fox and the Hound!
Yeah it's definitely a right wing christian agenda in this whole thing. Same as with the 'manosphere', which started out telling people to be tough and 'manly' and has ended up with something like purity culture where they evaluate women to carry their babies for them and vote against women's rights. I even saw a stat that these same young men that follow the manosphere are starting to turn religious, surprise surprise.
This TERF shit is the same agenda but for women. And the terminology is slightly more sophisticated because it's aimed at people that actually read and won't believe just any story about George Soros or whatever. So their version of "woke agenda" is "trans ideology". But they're both the same, both fighting to preserve and enforce white christian patriarchal culture onto everyone and push down and eradicate anyone who breaks norms.
And the sad part is that I think a lot genuinely think they're trailblazing rebels or something. But they're doing exactly what the conservative religious right wants. The same people that want to see them reduced to kitchen appliances and baby incubators.
Tracksuit pants and hoodies for me. If it's particularly cold, I'll wear a jersey over my hoodie. I also have a fairly sizeable collection of bathrobes that I practically live in sometimes.
I'll wear the same hoodies out but that's about it. Although I've got a pair of plaid tracksuit pants that I'd love a more wearable out and about version of.
I kinda think Witchy Memes and WitchesvsPatriarchy should be merged.
You pretty much answered this for me.
Absolute favourite:
Kiki's Delivery Service. Character and story that I relate with most of our of all of the movies. I wish I'd watched it when I was a kid.
Other favourites:
Almost favourites:
I have not and I'll definitely add that to my things to watch.
Yeah, also forcing it to sit or stay somewhere. And getting angry at retaliation and that sort of thing.
Obviously there's exceptions like children or people who maybe just genuinely don't know how to handle animals but I think a lot show their true colours when it comes to something that can't really fight back or speak for itself like a pet.