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This tracks. In anatomy, it’s typically optic discs and spinal disks.

I didn’t fully remember it was “Our Gang” until I read your comment, and I was trying to figure out what “Out Gang” would have meant back then while picturing exactly what you described.

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To be honest, it’s been weird seeing accusations of radical feminism coming from anywhere other than Pat Buchanan and his ilk, but I do see that she’s given up being reasonable. It seems like she only sees the people saying vile shit to her now.

I did go back and read the essay that she wrote that you rightfully point out is not the last she’s said on the matter, only the most recent and substantial thing I’d personally heard her say about it, and I had forgotten that she brought up bathroom use. It seems like she said “know and love,” too, not love and…

It’s been a while, so I don’t remember exactly what Rowling wrote. I do remember that she said she loved and respected trans people. If I had to guess, and apparently I do, I’d say she thinks trans women are women but not female. Gender is sociological, and sex is biological.

I think they were talking about shows featuring people playing the game, not the game itself. Even though Mazes and Monsters, based on a novel by Rona Jaffe, featured a young Tom Hanks a little more than 40 years ago, the Community episode probably does mark the first time D&D players were depicted positively in film…

It’s almost certainly Mary Holland, not Marie Holland, who is writing this with Lauren Lapkus.

I think all of that’s fair and nicely illustrates the problems that arise, but I just don’t see how Greenwald and Taibbi are right wing at all just because they’re challenging some of the thinking on the left. What are your thoughts on Noam Chomsky? I admit that I have a libertarian streak, though never of the right-wi…

I’m not saying that government should compel them to do anything. I’m saying that we as customers should demand it.

I take your point, but I would add that when these social media platforms came out, their stance was that they weren’t publishers but merely providing a forum for people to publish their opinions. That was the correct stance, I’d argue, but freedom of expression has never been easy for people to swallow. That’s why we…

I don’t think Trump being banned from Twitter was a violation of his freedom of speech and never said that Twitter shouldn’t be able to exercise their right to freedom of expression. I just think that people should have the attitude of tolerating speech they don’t like because it leads to less violence and more…

Ehhh, there’s an argument to be made that as communication platforms grow in size and power, they start having the power to substantially influence public discourse, the exact kind of thing First Amendment-style free speech protections are intended to protect. The debate of course is over exactly how big they have to…

This seems incredibly US-centric, especially when we’re talking about a company with a global presence.

I absolutely do understand that point, and it’s only interesting to repeat if someone truly doesn’t understand that distinction. I’m not saying that Twitter can’t ban people for whatever they want. I’m saying that private corporations are as potentially dangerous as governments, and it’s just a weird state of affairs…

I don’t understand leftists who defend the rights of corporations over people.  I also explicitly said at the end of the original post that Elon Musk wouldn’t preserve freedom of expression on Twitter.  You’re having a conversation with somebody, but it’s not me.

You’re right, of course, and you seem to have found the offending phrase that caused everyone to ignore everything else. Basically, I mean what Rosa Luxemburg meant when she said that “freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.” It means nothing to defend the freedom of people to use speech that we like, and it…

My point is actually that the opprobrium of my peers is the punishment I deserve (were I to actually be the person you’re supposing I am). We don’t gain anything by silencing people, and they and we have a lot to gain by changing their minds.

Why do you not understand that the First Amendment and freedom of speech are different things?