Er, it's more like complaining that a movie is played on TV too often. It has nothing to do with the length, it's about how often you have to see it. But even that doesn't quite work, because an overplayed song is inescapable, you hear it in waiting rooms, in grocery stores, bars, getting a haircut, at stadiums, in…

Bruce Willis doesn't keep living.

I don't think anyone's saying it's tantamount to anything by itself. It's just something that never happens, and without outside pressure over the past however many years of late night shakeups, probably wouldn't even be talked about. I feel like you're exaggerating what the actual argument is, not just the comparison…

So everything above the level of Syrian refugee should be treated as privileged whining? Who's saying it's not possible to be proportionately interested in both?

It was actually cocaine, which was even better.

"I'd like to apologize to the other guy on behalf of me and himself."

With any luck, you're witnessing the theatrically overwrought death throes of an intolerant past and present.

Memes are temporary, but being above memes…that's timeless.

There are people who go too far in the name of social justice, but I still don't think SJW is a good term, because of its origins and because of how easily it's co-opted by people who think social justice activism is ludicrous as a concept. Almost every time I see it, it functions the same as a dog whistle for anti-SJ…

I think the idea of the PC Bro is a bogeyman more than an actual epidemic, and is often used as a way of shutting down strong criticism without addressing its content. Not always dishonestly, either — I think a lot of people genuinely believe the majority of modern social activism is about ego-stroking and "outrage…

PC scolds "hurt" people by criticizing hurtful shit they say. It takes a simplistic worldview to equate actual racists/sexists/homophobes with "wow a feminist made fun of me and seemed really self-righteous about it".

Yeah I think they're aware to some extent that the show is overanalyzed and imbued with more importance than it probably deserves, in the way a lot of comedians and satirists downplay their own work and are "allergic to sincerity" as John Oliver puts it.

This is my problem with almost all "PC" criticism I see, people confusing negative responses to what they say for censorship.

I dunno, I really don't get the impulse to despise a scold more than a bigot.

I think that's the point, though — a lot of people have an inability to parse feminist criticism from the value of the work as a whole, but Ewoks in ROTJ is a good analogy for what it actually is.

Said Joss Whedon about the idea that feminists chased him off Twitter: "That is horseshit."

I think people, by and large, make editorial judgments in what they choose to target for correction. If someone was truly committed to being as accurate as possible, they would correct all their friends' grammatical and logical mistakes on a constant basis, and devote most of their time in online conversation to…

Like the individual statistics people are bringing up are true and worth discussing, but it's weird how everyone's first instinct is "Alright, let's downplay this a little bit"

It's kind of unsettling to me how many of the comments in this thread follow the vein of "Okay yeah rape and rape culture are bad, but…."

lol, if you say so.