"As she switches back and forth, she begins to wonder if she'd prefer to be a cat, rather than a human - but doesn't know what it might cost her." - my first thought was - "yeah, what about this forced sterilization thing". Sure, I know this is pushed as "The Humane (final?) Solution To Pet Overpopulation". But I dislike it exactly because it normalizes such non-trivial forced alteration of someone's body, among humans who hardly can be considered animal, or even humananimal friendly..
Also, word 'escapism' rubbed me wrong way, so I paused to think. May be escapism get a lot of bad press because it usually framed as 'oh, you just avoid confronting your problems!' while in reality not all problems should be confronted like this, frontally. Sometimes you need look at everything from other angles, and pause to think, yes.. So, escapism might come in few different shapes, it seems.. with different possible conseqences.
"As she switches back and forth, she begins to wonder if she'd prefer to be a cat, rather than a human - but doesn't know what it might cost her." - my first thought was - "yeah, what about this forced sterilization thing". Sure, I know this is pushed as "The Humane (final?) Solution To Pet Overpopulation". But I dislike it exactly because it normalizes such non-trivial forced alteration of someone's body, among humans who hardly can be considered animal, or even humananimal friendly..
Also, word 'escapism' rubbed me wrong way, so I paused to think. May be escapism get a lot of bad press because it usually framed as 'oh, you just avoid confronting your problems!' while in reality not all problems should be confronted like this, frontally. Sometimes you need look at everything from other angles, and pause to think, yes.. So, escapism might come in few different shapes, it seems.. with different possible conseqences.