Claudius reflects on the conversation he had with Mothwing, the medicine cat, about human monarchy, and on how useful it would've been to explain you see, Mothwing, twoleg society can be very sexist. Even Rousseau didn't touch on the sexism inherent to primogeniture, which seems like a failure on Rosseau's part1. It's a failure Claudius can admit he'd shared, with all his schemes to grant Gertrude the sovereignty she deserved returning to sexist assumptions and strictures he took as a matter of course.
"You are an absolute fount of resources," declares Claudius, meaning it. "If Lancelot hasn't picked up one of these feminist texts, that's utterly wasted on him, too. Hold on -- you say you flipped him off? What does that mean, socially speaking?"
1 This is, unfortunately, because Rousseau was sexist. Sorry, Enjolras, you have to side-eye your philosophical heroes sometimes.
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"You are an absolute fount of resources," declares Claudius, meaning it. "If Lancelot hasn't picked up one of these feminist texts, that's utterly wasted on him, too. Hold on -- you say you flipped him off? What does that mean, socially speaking?"
1 This is, unfortunately, because Rousseau was sexist. Sorry, Enjolras, you have to side-eye your philosophical heroes sometimes.