What if my identity, in terms of controlling the words that come out of my own mouth, involves not referring to people by designations that make me uncomfortable? Is that an acceptable form of identity?

Can I just call you Jim?

" GoT season 8, renewing contracts (and handing out raises) for
its five principal leads. Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey,
Emilia Clarke, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau"

Not a podcast listener, but it's been annoying how so much of the letters he answers now just deal with very niche bizarre fetishes (almost always some variation of "how do I tell my SO other that I am into X?"), instead of more "generic" relationship issues that people can actually relate to.

I could see him having had value in being a prominent pro-gay voice in the media, in spite of his ascerbic nature and downright meanness and hostility to so many people. But now that LGBT are accepted (pretty much) and allowed to live openly and without fear (overall), he's just an unnecessary loud angry asshole.

The analogy of someone taking a married name being the same as a puppy name is bullshit. No one changes their last name as part of their integral sexual identity.

Marginalized victims rarely have empathy for people more marginalized than themselves - they just relish the rare opportunity to play the alpha.

and lions can't sing, and a mermaid who suddenly got magical lungs and swam her way up to the surface from the bottom of the ocean would experience crippling nitric oxide poisoning and numerous burst capillaries in her brain.

That's what you think you saw

No evidence that the creatures from They Live were from space or even aliens

agreed. letting Jon almost have his forces completely annihilated instead of of telling him on the DL "Give me 24 hours before you attack" was weird.

Unlikely, as that involves sailing for thousands of miles

His thinking was "this is the only army we have, we've tried everything, and we're still outnumbered. Better to fight now than wait for low morale to make people start deserting"

right, but she didn't SAY anything insghtful. OKay, he's manipulative, and…. what does that do to inform Jon's strategy? Logically decide not to be emotionally goaded into rash action by the murder oF Rickon?

Sorry, the correct answer would have been: I post on the AV Club.

Are you a pedantic bore whom no one can stand?

it was kind of funny when Jon looks up and sees Sansa watching him, and at first he thinks she's disapproving, but then the look in her face is like "why are you stopping?"

thinking more about your examples -

yeah, it's really annoying and cheesy.

I don't tweet, but if I did it would have been: