Ork

> Going to step in for a minute here to clear up an old Humanis lie that still gets kicked around today. Orks. Do. Not. Have. Litters. We don’t. There’s a slightly higher rate of multiple births in orks than humans, sure, but you’re looking at a rate of twins in one in two hundred and thirty births (orks) vs one in two hundred and fifty (humans), or triplets one in 9,500 (orks) versus one in 10,000 (humans). Higher, yes, but still uncommon, and five, six, and so on? We’re not cats, dammit.

> Butch

> Are you sure? I see groups of five or six ork kids being drug around by their mom at the store when I go, uh. Slumming. Sorry Butch!

> /dev/grrl > Group parenting. Lots of parents are off working, so some parents take care of their own kids and their friends’ and neighbors’ kids. The kids get passed around from one family to another, based on who’s off at the time, with someone unemployed, like an older aunt, responsible for three or four different sets of kids at the same time. You’re shopping for several families, trying to keep the kids from running off like kids do, and you’re being stared at the whole time; what, you think we can’t hear the whispers? But you have a host of errands to run before your shift starts, so you take your turn, then pass the kid to the next person when their shift ends. As people say, it takes a village.

> Butch

> Did … did I do a racism? I’m so sorry!

> /dev/grrl

> Don’t worry about it. Ignorance ain’t hate.

> Butch