Ah, good point. I forgot about that. Ax can be so patriarchal and bigoted sometimes.
Yet it is still interesting, because just being an outcast isn't enough to make you feel compassion for people who are different from you. For example, in communities of color there's often a lot of enmity toward other minority racial groups, even though you might think they'd empathize with each other because of shared oppression. Tobias is not only compassionate toward a group he's not a part of, but he speaks up on behalf of that group to someone who doesn't see things the way he does. It's something to love about him.
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
Re: Along these lines...
Date: 2010-10-05 12:14 am (UTC)Yet it is still interesting, because just being an outcast isn't enough to make you feel compassion for people who are different from you. For example, in communities of color there's often a lot of enmity toward other minority racial groups, even though you might think they'd empathize with each other because of shared oppression. Tobias is not only compassionate toward a group he's not a part of, but he speaks up on behalf of that group to someone who doesn't see things the way he does. It's something to love about him.