Make Wicca the dominant faith in numerous countries over a millennium and a half, and I guarantee you there would be Wiccans who would commit atrocities against religious minorities. Probably at as massive a scale as any other religion.

To all the people popping up saying, "Hey, he may not have put it the best way, but he's got a point," I'd like to point something out:

I did finally meet her daughter the next week. She was a great kid, insanely smart and funny. Good god, she must be almost 18 by now!

Thanks! Though it was kind of a gamble at the time - sure, the poor kid never saw me, but if she had, it would have been much, much worse for her to see me under her mom's bed than on it!

Several years ago, I was dating a wonderful woman who was eight years older than me and had a 5 year old daughter. It was her first experience dating since her divorce, and my first experience dating somebody with a kid (I was only 20 at the time), so we both agreed that we'd wait awhile before I was introduced to her…

When my parents asked me why I decided to get a vasectomy, this was one of the major reasons I listed.

With a name like "fartfuckhell," s/he's clearly a thoughtful, pleasant individual to be around and says nothing but reasonable things.

Probably not the worst by any means, but I feel that it's still a story worth telling:

One can never tell.

You are a god amongst trolls.

"Never forget I'm a tiny ball of feathers, talons, and MURDER."

Meh, as long as people aren't trying to argue, "The entire premise of the site that you're posting on is full of shit," I tend to find that most people here are pretty friendly and receptive. Sure, somebody is going to find issue with whatever you say about anything, but that's not too different from any site with low…

That's a VERY good point. Hell, I'm an "internet discourse scholar," that's really the first thing that should have occurred to me - "online disinhibition," or GIFT.

I define Islamophobia the standard way: "a hatred or fear of Islam or Muslims, especially when feared as a political force."

Hey, you're right that we don't have laws the expressly favor men over women. Those laws have been officially revoked.

While it does appear that there is actual evidence that the #EndFathersDay thing was indeed started by trolls (a rarity, the thing about trolling is that it's usually so damn hard to prove one way or another), there were indeed too many people who took up the hashtag seriously, and those "feminists" need to be fucking…

Thank you! I feel awful - I spent all night arguing while I was visiting friends I haven't seen in half a year. They were asleep so I thought it'd be fine, but now I've gone and slept through most of our day together!

A very, very good point. I'm going to have to remember the Dr. House example next time I teach my rhetoric of hate speech class, thank you!

A very good point, I've seen plenty of applause worthy discussions on Chan boards as well. Their very format means that no single point of view is ever going to be able to completely dominate, and I appreciate its anarchism in those regards. I definitely should have acknowledged that in earlier posts, but I got...…

Hence why I said Anon as opposed to Anonymous. I try to use the former to refer to posters on various Chan boards, the latter to refer to the hactivist group.