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“But right now, I’m more excited to be talking about ‘Poetic License’ and anything would be reductive to the conversation to talk about it in this context.

Hegseth’s reductive view of gender is so over-the-top it’s hard to believe an adult human being wrote it — and it’s not just the literal fact that not all women are mothers.

What if the characters who people reductively call monsters actually love each other but are not incentivized to express it, so they can’t?

Calling it a picture of the American dream would be reductive, diminishing all of the work that Escola has done to apply it to an outmoded path toward prosperity.

But to that reductive objection, Belflower has a polite retort: “OK, but look at the history.”