Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170709002747/@comment-25936766-20170709023349

ChishioKunrin wrote: 1. This is especially since there are many workplaces in the US that will turn down an application if the applicant's name does not sound "white" enough, so when naming their children, they must weigh whether they should conform to "whiteness" with the name or stand firm on their race.

2. Then, he quotes Jacques: "If she's being insistent on her selfishness, then I expect her to win." 1-And they call themselves progressive.

2-Alright, so the Secretary, not Jacques, was the one basically telling Weiss that "This rusty piece of metal is amazingly powerful, fear it's might", and Weiss was the one who assumed that so much emphasis on how strong it was, was basically saying that Weiss could not win.

...........If we look at it from another angle however, the Secretary was trying to convince her of not fighting it. Makes some sense, given her skill vs the Arma Gigas's supposed strength. And if she did manage to go to Beacon, Jacques would probably yell at his staff for it.

So disuading Weiss from fighting it by glorifying it's strength, for Weiss's safety and the safety of the staff's eardrums.

That aside, the bit I quoted caught my interest. "then I expect her to win".

1 direct way to interpret that is "If you really want to go to Beacon instead of Atlas, then you can beat this thing, prove to me your determination and everything. If you can't beat it, you're not putting enough effort and heart into it, meaning you don't truly want to go there, you're not trying hard enough".

......Which can be simplified in different ways. ''"You wanna be more independent? Prove to me you can". Or, "Do you think you are good enough to fight monsters by yourself, in another continent? Prove it you me".''

Of course, there's also the bit about selfishness, which is somewhat hypocritical and dickish.