Well, yeah, once you've made the best album ever, the next one isn't going to be as good, because: reminder: best album ever.
Still, Second Coming is fine.

I guess it's that to me, sexism IS institutional.
The broadening of the term to include, basically, anything gender-related we don't like has robbed to term of meaning and usefulness and led us to the place where several of us who are probably more or less like-minded are arguing semantics.

So using the same word to mean different things, instead of using different words to mean different things, increases nuance and improves communication?
Because I'm not seeing how.

Jesus, that's enough of a thing to have a name?
My feeling is that it must be confusing and difficult (and, sadly, dangerous) enough to be trans that they don't to take any extra shit from me.
I don't get it, but it's not about me. Just be kind to people, for fuck's sake.
Thank's for the link, depressing as it was.

Isn't the "fundie" aspect of "born this way" arguments largely a product of fighting back against discrimination?
I mean, yeah, I think sexual preference is on a continuum and there are both nature and nurture elements, but when you're trying to end preference-based legal discrimination, nuance isn't helpful.

TERF? Could someone please netsplain this term to me. I'm not even getting it from context.

They do if they're paying attention.

It's Steve Albini. Saying exaggerated, crazy shit is and has always been one of his things.
It's worth thinking about, but it may or may not be worth taking seriously.

As Hank Hill wisely said: You're not making Christianity better. You're just making rock n roll worse.

The Devil's got hands! and you know what he uses them for?

Yeah, Barry not knowing his grandmother's maiden name is a stretch. Both of my grandmother's have been dead for 40 years and I still know what their maiden names were. (coincidentally, one of them was Allen)

Republican convention riots for the win!

Dead on about the small high school thing.
My family moved from a fairly large suburb to a pretty small one between my freshman and sophomore years and the culture was completely different.
There were a several girls who were very attractive, but couldn't get a date in our town for reasons I never did find out and some…

You're right.
As much as I hated Infinite Jest, I hate even more people who accuse others of just pretending to like things.
And yet, here I am being that guy.
Nonetheless, I stand by my point. Infinite Jest is a steaming pile of shit.

"You realize that blindly hating everything which is popular or current is a form of mind control in itself, right? If everything is automatically bad, nothing requires critical thinking."
I completely agree with your first two sentences.
I don't hate everything that is popular or current, so I don't know how those…

Great sweater. Terrible haircut. Correct opinion.

No offense, but fuck you hard, sideways in the ear you condescending asshole.

Maroon 5 were never a thing.
Adam Levine spontaneously combusted last year when Blake Shelton dumped him for Gwen Stephani because he wanted to be with someone more masculine and with very slightly less embarrassing tattoos (trick qualification: all tattoos are embarrassing if you aren't a moron).

Squirrel Girl! Squirrel Girl!

Counterpoint: Cheech and Chong sucked, their movies sucked and your opinion is deeply, deeply stupid and wrong.
And I'm really. really stoned.