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Mr Khan said:

I still contend that high-level play is its own reward, and the suitlessness is merely there to signify as such, and has no deeper meaning intentional or otherwise. That could just be me, though. I'm the kind of person who often-viciously lambasts literary thinkers and some writers for trying to make every cigar into a symbol, with that being the reason for my distaste of such so-called "classics" as Catcher in the Rye

Your other points i agree with.

Nor did i mean to frame this in the form of a competition, just that i took issue with your initial assertion in a way that i could not identify, but that Rol verbalized perfectly. We all hopefully learn something here.

The default presentation of sex as a signifier of progress is exactly what I was talking about anyway, and is still problematic both at large and more specifically in the case of Samus.