I think that doing mental gymnastics to defend a character using a slur, joining a terrorist organization, etc can have wider implications re: someone’s politics and values, and I think that a lot of fandom discussions often mirror sociopolitical ones. Snapewife/Snapewife-adjacent discourse was no exception to this,…

Did you also get a suspicion EGLOE’s the sidepiece here and doesn’t know it?

Side note: How dare that gif maker leave nuGreg’s face uncrossed but cross out the other two!

You’ve never heard of a rule of thumb? Advice to large groups of people can be about generalities.

Considering that the letter was about someone who was comically cavalier with her son’s mental health in meeting a partner, a few rules of thumb are probably useful. 

Children can handle knowing that a parent is dating, but they shouldn’t be exposed to those short relationships because kids get attached, for one.

Your kids could know you were seeing someone without being introduced to them. They could even see pictures of them. If they’re old enough for the meeting of a parents BF/GF to be an issue then they’re old enough to understand dating.

I’m with Dan on this one. If it’s going to be a long term thing then meeting the…

It seems important to point out that Dan didn’t say not to tell your kids you’re dating. He said not to introduce them to new partners until it seems like a fairly sure thing. Your kids don’t need to meet every person you date. 

Also, to be a Mary Sue she’d have to be pulling off a lot more than she actually does in the story. That AIM prison? She’d have to have found a way to break in and free all of the Inhumans herself (and have the others, probably Widow, comment on how amazing she was at pulling off what no one else had). She got in over…

Literally every character with superpowers is a Mary Sue at some point or another--welcome to comics! I’m sure you don’t do it purposely, but it says something that you’re not popping into a story about Thor or Superman to say the same thing.

To your point, it’s Kamala that’s pushing everyone to do stuff. Because I guess the Avengers, professional superheroes, had a bad day and decided to just pack it in.

That’s just lazy writing, it does not make Kamala a Mary Sue. 

Her attitude is super refreshing, both in her comics and in the game. Imagine how dour this story would be without her upbeat personality and positive attitude.

I like Kamala as a character, but she has serious Mary Sue vibes in Marvel’s Avengers.

I love that she is 1,000,000% just happy to be here.

I never claim it couldn’t be who you were, I just claimed that if one of the options was it was who you were then you were ignorant. Which is true because, saying stuff like, “I don’t like defining things left or right” and “programmed to believe that all opinions have a left or right wing agenda” says so. I’m gonna…

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again:

“I run somwhere in the middle”. Ah yes the false balance fallacy otherwise known as the middle of the road fallacy.  Either you ir ignorant or you are trying to launder your conspiracy b.s. behind a veneer of balance and both sided “rationality” that isnt real.  Either way you should know better.  Anyone who claims to…

There are certainly left wing or politically neutral conspiracy theories out there, but the specific ones that this game seems to be basing its plot on are ones that are almost exclusively believed by the far right, essentially that all protests aren’t ordinary people upset about injustices, but are all actors being…

Because the alt right, and by extension the Republican Party itself, is increasingly reliant on conspiracy theories to peddle its bullshit.  Yes, I remember the days when conspiracy theories seemed relatively harmless; now they’re increasingly taking on a political bent, and typically cast people on the left as…