Oh, nothing would make that “THE LIBS ARE JUST AS BAD” bullshit palatable.

There’s a lot to unpack in that because it’s all intersectional. Wealth distribution and sex dynamics are very related to one another for all kinds of reasons, but mainly because
1) Humans (if asked) usually say they want some kind of equality.
2) Such equality does not exist and might not be able to actually made to…

The very existence of a fictional work about an extremely committed and organized sociopath who happened to be a woman is now going to be used against actual women making claims of abuse.

Two comments on this:

I’m not sure “I believe her” is being judge, jury, and executioner.

I read an interview once with a guy who runs men’s behaviour change programs. He said that without fail they would come in blaming their partner, saying “She just kept pushing my buttons and I lost control of my temper, I couldn’t help it.” And he would ask “So this anger problem that you have, do you ever get really…

That’s line one in the Abuser Enabler’s & Apologist’s Handbook- “Don’t rush to judgement, there are 2 sides to every story”. Next is “you don’t know him like I do, he’s the gentlest person I know”. Then “she put herself in that position and drove him to it”.

Good god, you are a good writer Evan. I almost read an entire article about an angry birds movie. I can’t stop clicking on your articles.

Also relevant to the toys and crossovers:

Very few people in the contemporary US have any serious vitamin, fiber, protein, or other nutrient deficiencies.

This is a terrible way to look at diet and healthy lifestyle. Yes, a lower caloric intake will result in weight loss, but be wary of any correlation that “Low Calorie = Healthy”.

Yes at its most basic level a caloric deficiency means weight loss. But if you are associating lower-calorie foods as “Nutritional” and higher-calorie foods as “Not Nutritional” there is a problem.

Any container of food can be a single serving if you try hard and believe in yourself.

I understand the premise behind increasing the font size of the caloric value... but this creates (intentional or not) a sense that this value is significantly more important than the others.

Back in the early 90s there was a PC program called Babble! that would take any collection of words and try to make coherent sentences out of them. Terry Pratchett famously played around with it and came up with some of the mutterings of Foul ol’ Ron like “Buggrit, millennium hand and shrimp!” That particular phrase…

Yeah, I saw that wording and went straight to the comments to find sanity. You, sir, delivered.

My mom tells me all the time that she honestly is never surprised by all my cares about social justice because I've ALWAYS been that way. I was picked on a lot as a kid but it was always because I stood up for other kids and hung out with whoever I wanted to. Not much has changed, TBH.

Yeah, somehow I don’t think Peter King (or that totally real guy at the end of the bar) is sussing out exactly which country someone’s family originated from before selecting a racial slur in the interest of accuracy.

My racist grandmother called black men “nigger men” and apparently when I was 9 she didn’t talk to me for MONTHS because I basically shut her down something to the tune of “that’s racist and we don’t say that word.”

I just...the subject was curly hair, and she was trying to prove she has naturally curly hair. She could have used the same damn picture, and just said, “Here is a picture of me in 1971, dressed as a person in 1971, and as you can see, my hair is curly,” and I never even would have been the wiser. Why did she need to…