Yeah, I think I got an object lesson in that from the thread starter…

Also a lot of anti-tw stuff seems to be driven by an emotional reaction - they remind people of the type of person they hate - rather than sitting down and rationally assessing whether the concept is any more inherently censorious than, say, a TV content warning. Obviously trigger warnings themselves areemotional…

I think we're probably more on the same page as not. I agree trigger warnings can be - ha! - problematic, but at the same time reading the words "tw: ableism" is such an innocuous thing to me that I can't help be suspicious about the motives of people who get seriously angry about them. In my experience they usually…

That's what you thought you were doing? Rather than constructing a strawman of me big enough to burn Edward Woodward in and flailing at it like a spittle-flecked lunatic? Okay.

Yeah, that's an example of the kind of hysterical reaction I was talking about. Well done!

For the categories "irritating", "thin-skinned" and "whiny", yeah. Obviously there are other people who do more harm, but they're the ones whose petulant tantrums are most abrasive to the ear.

You got your brother Chris to sort that out, right?

People who get upset about trigger warnings and safe spaces are the most irritating, thin-skinned, whiny shitbags in the world.

I am! For example, I don't think autism is some sort of horrible death sentence, much worse than infectious diseases, which can only be cured by making payments to a slimy, discredited quack.

It also had the most epic Spoiler Space in AV Club history, if memory serves.

I love that Chomet segment.

I think that's why I love it so much more than other people. It also has a great instance of the thing people have been talking about in comments here, where his apparently buffoonish characters turn out to be worth listening to; I laughed out loud when Violet said her dream was to do something worthwhile, "like…

I legitimately want to see a movie about a serial killer who's trying to avoid being problematic now.

You're dead on; the David Tennant episode 'The Fires of Pompeii' did use fixed points in time as a reason why he couldn't just save all the victims of Vesuvius. Even then, it added some evil aliens to the plot so the Doctor would be able to stop something bad happening, even if it wasn't all the bad things.

The opening of the trailer suddenly made me realise what his laugh reminded me of: Rowan Atkinson's high-pitched "nyah ha ha!" laugh in the first series of Blackadder.

So you want a safe space from criticism of NOFX?

Snyder's fetishistic use of slo-mo and close-ups frequently completely undermine whatever story point he's trying to tell. (See also: the attempted rape in Watchmen, which begins with leering close-ups on Carla Gugino's cleavage then escalates into something approaching a martial arts action scene) It's one reason why…

The very good SF critic Philip Sandifer has a theory about why Doctor Who stopped doing 'pure' historical stories (i.e., ones without aliens or other SF twists). Basically once the character had evolved from William Hartnell's eccentric old man who goes on adventures to Patrick Troughton's determined crusader against…

They were paid off by Disney!

…I mean, I'm not a fan of their new writing staff either, but that seems harsh.