Explaining why you think something doesn't warrant being this shitty imo
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MalReynoldsThe Hunter S Thompson of incredibly mild medicinesRegistered Userregular
edited September 2020
Having to explain why a tired transphobic joke is indicative of tired transphobia is also exhausting so excuse me for being out of patience having to explain why Bleep Bloop Attack Helicopter jokes are actually bad.
Edit: to put it more nicely, there's nothing to lose by listening when someone says someone is being offensive.
Demanding proof is crappy. I'm non binary. I find the comments hurtful and having to stop and explain why to get to even a baseline understanding of why it is bad is a mountain of work against bad faith questions and I don't feel like writing an essay explaining it.
But here we are.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
Admittedly, I reacted somewhat strongly to a line of questioning that seemed like it was going to start talking about cancel culture next.
I'm going to be super clear, I read all of the same stuff you guys did in exactly the same amount of time. I literally didn't know that the nonsense she put in her bio was actually a thing because I'm not on Twitter, it's a toxic cesspool full of nitwits and nobody's the better for participating in it, but I'm not happy with conflating "holds ignorant and aggressive views about mask wearing and opening public spaces" with transphobia so I tried to get some clarity around what I might have missed. In this era of the Edict I'll just say I hope y'all have a good night, maybe get the fuck off the Internet for a few hours.
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HacksawJ. Duggan Esq.Wrestler at LawRegistered Userregular
When someone says something is transphobic, I don't think the correct response is "be on Twitter less".
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MalReynoldsThe Hunter S Thompson of incredibly mild medicinesRegistered Userregular
Sorry, I shouldn't have muddied the waters.
She's bad for multiple, competing reasons, transophobia being one of them.
"A new take on the epic fantasy genre... Darkly comic, relatable characters... twisted storyline."
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
That question wasn't phrased particularly elegantly but this isn't the way to respond to it, especially since when I googled it, a good chunk of the top results were results like, "Gina Carano bravely faces down cancel culture," and "why Gina Carano is being targeted by trolls on Twitter," stuff. It's not all of it, but if you don't know that, for example, Cosmic Book News is run by extremely shitty alt right comicsgate assholes...you're going to have some problems digging through the chaff.
And "let me google that for you" style responses have always been well below the standards we're supposed to have here.
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MalReynoldsThe Hunter S Thompson of incredibly mild medicinesRegistered Userregular
edited September 2020
... ... ... they asked for a link
Edit: instead of taking a step back and going woah maybe Gina Carano is transphobic, that sucks, receipts were asked for.
There are no receipts for 'Well I read the exact same stuff and I don't think it's transphobic.' Other than I am trans/NB and this conversation fucking sucks.
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"A new take on the epic fantasy genre... Darkly comic, relatable characters... twisted storyline."
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Fashion in the 90s was dire in pop culture.
I just wore like, jeans, cargo shorts, and t shirts. But like, pop fashion was almost deliberately bad.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Look I wore jeans and boots and men’s flannel shirts and I’m still wearing jeans and boots and men’s flannel shirts so how bad could it truly have been
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
The thing I always remember is during 80s day in high school I just wore my normal clothes and people were asking the AP Bio teacher what kind of stuff he wore in the 80s and he said “Basically the same thing as what [Munkus] is wearing”
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
The latest season of Aggretsuko is handling the relationship stuff like, really well and its hitting kinda hard despite everything being cute ass animals.
You know I never really liked the dude but this actively makes me hate him with a passion
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
More like Aaron Dorkin'
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Starting Cobra Kai. Johnny getting belittled because he followed instructions to install a TV on a wall opposite "the door" and didn't intuitively know which of the two doors in the room the client meant is personally highly relatable. He would have definitely gotten chewed out by that person if he had asked "which door?" ahead of time, too, because obviously only an idiot wouldn't know which door is "the door".
American Vandal had me saying "What the fuck!?" At the end of more episodes than anything I've ever watched.
it rules
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PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
Finished Broad City
Ahhhh what a good ending I'm floored.
Both in the personal growth for it's cast and the bittersweet farewells, this was an exemplary example of a final season. The second breakup with Leslie felt a bit mean spirited and rushed to wrap that plot thread up, but otherwise I was both still loving the show and was content with this being the end, which is so hard to do.
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Edit: to put it more nicely, there's nothing to lose by listening when someone says someone is being offensive.
Demanding proof is crappy. I'm non binary. I find the comments hurtful and having to stop and explain why to get to even a baseline understanding of why it is bad is a mountain of work against bad faith questions and I don't feel like writing an essay explaining it.
But here we are.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
She's bad for multiple, competing reasons, transophobia being one of them.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
And "let me google that for you" style responses have always been well below the standards we're supposed to have here.
Edit: instead of taking a step back and going woah maybe Gina Carano is transphobic, that sucks, receipts were asked for.
There are no receipts for 'Well I read the exact same stuff and I don't think it's transphobic.' Other than I am trans/NB and this conversation fucking sucks.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
Was that a style for the 90s?
it took a bit for suits to get on track
Don't question Niles Crane's fashion.
everyone went insane, fashion-wise, in the 70's and it took like two decades before the fever broke
Three decades.
They were so comfortable!
I just wore like, jeans, cargo shorts, and t shirts. But like, pop fashion was almost deliberately bad.
shoulda never let them go away
Show is good.
how about now?
Steam
Youre just gonna see a lot of that homer in clown pants bit
You done messed up, Ay Ay Ron
also please please please don't drive a wedge between Peter and Sam they're besties
(Kraz is so getting fired)
it rules
Both in the personal growth for it's cast and the bittersweet farewells, this was an exemplary example of a final season. The second breakup with Leslie felt a bit mean spirited and rushed to wrap that plot thread up, but otherwise I was both still loving the show and was content with this being the end, which is so hard to do.
big collars need to come back, imo
be the change you want to see etc.