Eh, you may be more or less correct about the “dodged bullet” thing. But my point still stands: If you ghost someone, you did it to keep them out of your life, so make sure they stay out.

I did not want the law to stand. At all. I wanted a full, clean repeal. Any sort of “compromise” that left Charlotte unable to enforce its NDO was the same damn thing as leaving the law in place, so it may as well have stayed in place anyway because what the hell was the point — especially if the state legislature…

People wanted a full, clean repeal of the law — in other words, once HB2 was repealed, Charlotte could immediately begin enforcing its NDO and other cities could immediately pass their own queer-inclusive NDOs. Such a repeal was at least part of Roy Cooper’s platform.

Here is the key complaint against Cooper: He refused an earlier “compromise” with a shorter moratorium (six months) for city-level NDOs on the basis of wanting a full, clean repeal of the entire law. Everyone who paid attention knew that “compromise” was bullshit, and they celebrated Cooper’s willingness to stand…

His being the most visible and dominant babyface in the company makes it hard to look past the booking, yeah. But doing so can give you a greater appreciation of his skill.

I am bisexual, and I prefer the “queer” label as one that is more inclusive of people with differing sexual identities who are not normally encompassed by the often-used LGBT acronym (e.g., asexual people, genderqueer people). I understand the word’s history as both a slur and a “reclaimed” label, and I would not use…

North Carolina offers no anti-discrimination protections for queer people at the state level. HB2 was passed to stop Charlotte from enforcing its own city-level protections. And there are no federal protections for queer people, either.

Speaking as someone who ghosted a toxic person out of my life: No, you do not want to do this. If you ghosted someone, you did it for a good goddamn reason. Remember that reason if they ever try to contact you again, or if you think about contacting them.

This was a repeal in the most half-hearted, half-assed, low-effort “in name only” sense. HB2’s moratorium on cities enacting their own queer-inclusive anti-discrimination laws remains intact. The state offers no state-level protections for queer people, meaning laws such as Charlotte’s non-discrimination ordinance…

Yeah, trying to get into those sites with HTTPS Everywhere installed is a pain unless I disable the rulesets for those sites. I appreciate you guys working on it, though!

I would give the edge to Heyman. Cornette can do the “angry man” schtick well, but he lacks the kind of “crowd control” ability and the precision timing for both jokes and dramatics that Heyman has honed to perfection as a result of working with both ECW and WWE crowds over the past twenty-something years.

They can say it, but WWE usually edits it out on replays and YouTube videos. TV-PG guidelines and sponsorship deals being what they are, the company walks a fine line there.

The WWE is an engine to show you stuff that you need to purchase in a cute, flashy clips, in order to maintain this relationship of dependance. There’s no deeper meaning, no superior athleticism on display, or exhilarating competition implied. Hell, we all know what the outcomes to the matches we’re seeing are,…

This is the John Cena that should have been around for the past decade. Holy shit.

The key phrase there is “to the state”. One stipulation of HB2 said cities could not enact or enforce non-discrimination laws that essentially supercede those of the state. (Charlotte doing that is what prompted HB2 in the first place.) If the state does not have an LGBT-inclusive anti-discrimination law, no city…

People love to whine about “political correctness” and how it affects comedy. They often fail to think about how it actually benefits comedy, and your comment nailed that reason: “Political correctness” forces comedians to stay fresh, to actually work at and hone their craft rather than rely on lazy fallbacks like…

There is an informal name for this phenomenon: “The Distress of the Privileged”.

Just wait until “Infinite” comes out and makes EVO. Marvel heroes EVERYWHERE.

The larger problem I have with PDP’s reliance on this bullshit is not that it could be offensive, but that it is most definitely lazy. Any asshole can say “nigger” or “kike” as part of a “joke”, but that only proves how the asshole just wants a cheap laugh from people who think saying racist and anti-semitic bullshit…

At this point, I expect us to go through our own Second Impact before the final “Rebuild of EVA” film is ever finished.