Definitely this. If someone still has an old Cosby Show tape and is watching it, that person is not going “yeah, I love rapists.” That person just wants to watch a fucking nostalgia trip show.

Here’s the thing: everyone has something. Everyone’s work has something. There will always be a problematic trope in every work. There will always be something the author believes that you find at least somewhat objectionable. This is human nature. Hell, I’m progressive as fuck and I’m pretty sure I have some…

Your sister is batshit nuts. You can’t kiss a date, you can’t take a dump in your own toilet, and she’s thrilled she can abuse you because you “have to put up with it because family”? Yeah no.

If she’s been talking about it for over 30 years, she probably doesn’t have the ability to suspend her self-preservation instincts to do it.

Yes, moral panic, about an ambiguous threat somewhere in abortion. *Their* abortion isn’t bad, but everyone else’s is this huge scary thing. Cognitive dissonance is just pushed aside.

I look forward to seeing you around the internet. ;)

No, it’s abortion. It’s just abortion. It’s the fact that when you compare the other side to an abattoir where babies are chopped into gooey bits and ripped from their moms in a horror show that traumatizes the mother forever, literally anything looks tame by comparison. Including Cheetolini.

I hear a lot of crying from my home’s community about “incentives.” Sure, you could offer birth control as an answer to awful periods or not wanting any more children while being a fundie-sanctioned married hetero couple, but using birth control gives people incentive to have sinful sex! Women on it might cheat,…

TV has killed a lot of the “not megachurch Fundamentalist” communities. I grew up in a county of like...30k people, and everyone there watched Billy Graham and his ilk. While I’m a big fan of technology, the coalescing of media-led fundie prosperity cults began way before the internet.

What do you hate about Nathan Robinson? (Admitted bias: I knew the guy years ago and love his work now.)

Okay, I’ll accept that. But you definitely can’t have a nuanced view of some certain hot-button issues here. You can talk about who’s hot and not or whatever, sure. :P

That would be telling. :P OK, I won’t be that cheeky. Wilde Life. It’s amazing and well made, but the author has a nasty tendency to go in the comments and bark at fans for having discussions she happens to not like about characters or such, or when anyone criticizes her artwork in any way. I made a comment about that…

I have an overactive brain and a penchant for never letting people ban me from anywhere for long.

That was regarding the whole “it’s not my job to teach someone” thing. It had nothing to do with the temporary use/manipulation of other people to support your cause while you can snag them.

“As the aggrieved party it’s not my job to make people who say they want to help feel welcomed to help.”

I guess that would make sense!

Only small-time. I got banned back in the day from a random webcomic site because I offered criticism on the art, and I was so utterly incensed that I picked a new name and returned so that I could find ways to keep providing my opinion while not getting banned again. Over time, I realized that people get really mad…

No I’m not good. In the end, would you rather not start or would you rather have a second fight later once you’ve gained some ground? I’d rather have a second fight later. Wars are not one battle, or even necessarily one enemy. You fight the enemy you have now, with the resources you can get now. You fight the enemy…

Well, you’re half-right, all birds are in fact dinosaurs. They’re the “avian dinosaurs,” whereas the extinct ones are all“non-avian dinosaurs.” (Some avian dinosaurs are extinct, but there are no living non-avian dinosaurs. To be clear.) This is because creatures that evolved from a category are still, usually,…

Oh yeah, fake deaths, especially ones for attention, are a whole other thing. People investigate these things, which leads back to don’t attract scrutiny. It won’t work. Even worse if you blame someone for it.