If you’re a healthy human being with strong immune system and loads of bacteria in your tummy that you’ve already been exposed to previously (which means your strong immune system knows how to deal with em), eating poop will most likely just make your mouth taste like shit. Most of the microbes in it, your immune…

I think we may be seeing a repeat of the way writers took sides in the first Civil War. This is the same staff that decided that only fascists would question the idea of vigilante justice with more power than most militaries.

Oh, She-Hulk and Cap on the side dedicated to enforcing the law before a crime is committed. Fuck you Marvel.

I find her essay a bit problematic as well. She is very vague about describing her “sex work.” I looked her up, and found this in another article she wrote:

I guess that was my take on the discussion of Agustin’s writing and on this:

There’s this weird preoccupation on the left that the people who are best-equipped to fix a problem are the ones who have been direct victims of it. Which certainly does play a role, but doesn’t always necessarily pan out to positive outcomes in the real- someone who has spent a great deal of time studying and…

Aw man, I’m really sorry you went through that. I think that’s becoming an issue now, especially with people who are told that they have “privilege”. If you’re white, male, straight or able-bodied, you need to apologize for it. You feel like because you’re so privileged, you should feel guilty until you can right the…

I bite my tongue a lot about the Left’s tendency to eat its own because it devolves very quickly into a conversation about how mean the Left is about other folks’ opinions and behaviors. I do think that this tendency is hard for people who are on the perimeters of the movement, looking for a way in. Unfortunately,…

Unless I totally missed something in the previous movies, I find it deeply ironic that Tony Stark, Mr. “These are my suites of armor and I can do whatever I want with them,” is champing at the bit for more oversight.

I think this is a serious problem with social justice as a whole right now. It’s become really self-destructive for the people engaging in it, and destructive for people outside of it when we see them as not behaving in ways/holding opinions we think they should for their assumed “privilege” level. I mean, it…

There are still people in former Easter Bloc countries that will swear up and down that vampires are real. They have a centuries old folklore history dealing with vampires.

You’re basically arguing that a culture in entitled to have its superstition protected. You’re saying “yeah, but native Americans are really scared of these things cos they’re worse than demons!” whilst ignoring the fact that scads of media depict demons that Christians think are real and find objectively terrifying.

Will people be less offended if fictional native americans are depicted as utilizing heavy industry, polluting everywhere, and mass slaughtering the deer, then just leaving the whole deer there to rot?

Because we all know how cool it would be with the writer if the Native Americans were strongly anti-foreigners. It is clearly much more offensive that Rowling decided the Native Americans were “generally welcoming” rather than go with hostile savages. It’s almost as if Rowling was going to get attacked either way.

Oh yes, and the next time someone writes about Americans, Europeans, the Roma, Russians, or anyone, let’s get together a committee and see what they’re allowed to say. Cause nothing is better for a writer than getting approval on the fiction they want to create.

How should she have “properly handled” this?

I absolutely wouldn’t give a fuck if J.K. Rowling wrote a story about Jesus being a wizard. The fundies already hate her anyway.

See, that’s exactly what I am talking about. Neither Hexenbeast nor Zauberbeast have anything to do with German lore (although Zauberbiest rarely exists, pointing out to mythical animals, not the haunting, humanoid creatures often used her). While Hexe does, indeed, mean female witch, “Zauber” means “spell” not…

You’ve come to the wrong place for logic my friend. How dare a white author make a FICTIONAL FANTASY STORY using other people’s FANTASY AS IN NOT REAL MYTHS. Just take a step back from your keyboard...this is what we are arguing about. Apparently its no longer acceptable to write about skinwalkers unless you’ve lived…

But they’re white cultures being conflated into easy-to-follow archetypes, so Gawker doesn’t care. Nevermind that during the Third Reich Eastern Europeans and Slavs weren’t even considered the right kind of white, and so were invaded, enslaved, and murdered alongside everyone else. Seventy years after their torment,…