That was definitely the question behind the question.

What’s the significance of the diagonal red line on their signs?

Maeby, maybe not.

“Ms.” isn’t the same as “Miss.” This whole thing that beauty pageants do where they claim they’re all about providing young women positive role models is bullshit.

I don’t know. I kind of think it needed to exist for a while for all the reasons you mentioned. It will eventually fall away on its own, but just the notion of having a deep emotional bond with your male friends was something that many men wouldn’t admit without having something special to call it. It’s kind of lame,…

Leon Kass would hate this photo.

I clicked because I thought it was about people wanting Mark McGrath to push for antitrust action against Cameo. I may need more coffee.

That goes deeper than culture and is probably inevitably going to happen when some people feel ambivalent about others, but I take your point. The main reason we can be said to live in a rape culture (or rape cultures) is because of patriarchal ideas that people find hard to shake. “You can’t rape your spouse” kind of…

Everyone who isn’t a rapist hates rapists, and everyone who hasn’t been caught will tell you they hate rapists.  Most people don’t need to state the obvious as much as you do.

You make a lot of baseless assertions about people’s motives based on uncharitable readings of their comments, too. Besides, it’s just an observation that many people project an image that’s decidedly contrary to what they are. It doesn’t need substance, and no one claimed it was true.

Anyway, we don’t have to do this.…

Nah, the only me problem here is wasting time trying to convince you of what plenty of other people see. You could have said any number of things on that obit other than “Good riddance” that would have made your point much better. You’re not interested in doing anything but making yourself look and feel like you’re…

Inexplicable? It’s like you think you’re the only one with a memory. You’re just an edgelord who latched on to a different, admittedly better ideology. Exhibit A is the comment section of Kobe Bryant’s obituary.

It’s not even the free market..  It’s just 50,000 people deciding they don’t want to hear from her.  It lacks even that flawed argument.

It wasn’t helped by the quotation marks in the subtitles at the start of that part, implying that he actually wanted people to repeat after him. It’s a nice sentiment, man, but what I really want to hear is Republicans rebuking those 121 members of the House and six senators who continued with their part of the coup…

I’d only heard it talked about until the other day and assumed it was spelled “parlor.” Do the people who named it and run it at least pronounce it correctly?

Not even a little bit mitigating, in my opinion. If you give someone carte blanche to pretend to be you, you’ve got to live with the consequences.

Morrowind was on the original Xbox. I remember it because I’ve always pretty much exclusively liked RPGs, and it was exciting to be able to play one (outside of the JRPGs you mention) that I wasn’t stuck playing on PC. Oblivion was on Xbox 360, too. Skyrim was definitely the one that made it palatable to people who…

If you’ll permit me to paraphrase my mother, who has always been very encouraging: You’re right.

Not just to understand, but deep or complete understanding, viscerally and cognitively.  It’s a good word, one we needed.

I guess it’s unavoidable, especially in an internet comment section. I don’t see a meaningful difference between calling out disingenuous Twitter activists by calling them performative or by saying they’re virtue signaling, but I have to acknowledge that I don’t use the latter only because it’s become a shibboleth of…