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Quaitcha
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[DRAFT] Exercise in Futility

Postby Quaitcha » Sat Mar 17, 2018 10:54 pm

Name: Excersise in Futility

Description: Following a recent fitness craze in @@NAME@@, there has been outcry from many conservative citizens who find yoga positions too provocative

Option 1: “This is pornography!” bellows right-wing extremist Skipper Humperdink, “Look at these positions. ‘Downward Dog, Bridge Pose’, these nutjobs might as well be working the street corner. And now I find out my 12 year old daughter is enrolled in a mandatory yoga class “for her health”? We all know what middle school boys are like! The only reasonable course of action is to make yoga illegal!”
Outcome: People caught stretching in bed are convicted felons.

Option 2: “I've never heard such bigoted drivel in my life!” shouts local gym owner Infinty Summer, chugging her kale smoothie while squatting on an exercise ball. “It has been scientifically proven that yoga reduces stress, boosts the immune system, cures cancer, and promotes a positive self-image. It's not enough to teach classes on the magic of yoga, we need to make it mandatory for all citizens! Picture it: Millions of citizens starting their day with Sun Salutations, with all those heretical yoga-haters rotting in a federal penitentiary.”
Outcome: Inflexibility is being treated as an infectious disease.

Option 3: Look at these two, squabbling like a bunch of theists,” mutters renowned skeptic @@RANDOMNAME@@, pouring a thirteenth cup of coffee. “Yoga should be classified as a religion and put out of the government's hands. Maybe then the people would see these fanatics for what they really are.”
Outcome: Devout followers of Yogaism are becoming more extremist by the day.
Last edited by Quaitcha on Mon Mar 19, 2018 1:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Postby Australian rePublic » Sun Mar 18, 2018 5:03 am

Validity- must allow religion
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Postby Bolkenia » Sun Mar 18, 2018 5:07 am

Would be good if there is a gentle fourth option. Not making illegal nor impose youga to your conutry. Well, you can dismiss but it is a shame to trash an issue away because you don't find a good solution.
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Postby Quaitcha » Sun Mar 18, 2018 9:59 am

Bolkenia wrote:Would be good if there is a gentle fourth option. Not making illegal nor impose youga to your conutry. Well, you can dismiss but it is a shame to trash an issue away because you don't find a good solution.

Well, I added the religion option because I didn't want banning yoga and making yoga mandatory to be the only two options, but I know there can't be a "correct" option, so I didn't want to be too gentle. Do you have any suggestions?

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Postby The Sherpa Empire » Sun Mar 18, 2018 10:50 pm

What a weird issue. I think it has some potential, though.
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Postby Candlewhisper Archive » Mon Mar 19, 2018 4:19 am

I'm not sure I want to read about 12 year old girls bending over in skintight yoga pants, even when the words are from a character rather than the narrator.

Can we make the issue less squicky please?
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Postby Trotterdam » Mon Mar 19, 2018 5:16 am

Well, complaining that yoga is squicky is kind of the point here.

To be honest I have very little idea of what yoga actually entails and so have no judgement on whether this is a legitimate concern.

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Postby Candlewhisper Archive » Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:26 am

Yoga aside, any story involving the mental image of boys staring at a 12 year old girl bending over in skintight pants is basically not going to make it past the censor. I'm exercising editorial fiat here, okay?
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Postby The Sherpa Empire » Mon Mar 19, 2018 12:00 pm

I think people would still get the point of it if you took out the line about "bending over in skintight yoga pants." Not sure why you are so wigged out about it, but it would still be comprehensible if you took it out entirely and changed the option to:

“This is pornography!” bellows right-wing extremist Skipper Humperdink, “Look at these positions. ‘Downward Dog, Bridge Pose’, these nutjobs might as well be working the street corner. And now I find out my 12 year old daughter is enrolled in a mandatory yoga class “for her health”? We all know what middle school boys are like! The only reasonable course of action is to make yoga illegal!”
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Postby Quaitcha » Mon Mar 19, 2018 1:03 pm

Candlewhisper Archive wrote:Yoga aside, any story involving the mental image of boys staring at a 12 year old girl bending over in skintight pants is basically not going to make it past the censor. I'm exercising editorial fiat here, okay?

That's a good point, I was wondering about that. If I removed the squicky part, would the issue be good?

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Postby Palos Heights » Mon Mar 19, 2018 1:11 pm

Just make it teenage. 18 and 19 are technically teenagers, but it sends the same idea. Or, take it to the extreme and have it just be "my daughter" and then have an option where the daughter (who is actually 30 or 40 something, subvert those expectations) tries to find some middle ground.
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