joelhruska
Joel Hruska
joelhruska

It’s a bit surprising to see this debate proliferating now, as human women have existed on Earth for at least five million years[.]

Not that I expect brilliant international relations analysis from Jezebel, but I have to love how for all the complaining about imperialism, this is the most America-centric analysis of Ukraine I have ever seen. There isn’t even a mention of Europe, their over reliance on Russian gas (especially Germany), NATO,

Instead of wasting both our time having the same argument we’ve had at least once or twice before, I’m just going to refer back to one of those discussions (here https://jezebel.com/the-futile-attempts-to-stop-texass-restrictive-abortion-1847626083), confirm our positions are substantially the same, and call it a day

okay, well what about me then? Because that was my reaction as well, and I’ve sure as shit made more than three comments.

This is getting absolutely absurd. I’m a diehard leftist, and every single of these knee jerk reactionary articles makes us all look bad. This is exactly what the right wingers in our country think

You write as if marginalized populations were, as a whole, very angry about what Critical Role is doing here. When the likelihood is that they overwhelmingly do not know about this and, were they to know, would not care. So why am I supposed to agree with people whose eagerness to be offended by this not not actually

“There’s a special place in hell for those middle-aged men who assault their chatbots,”

Look, if you’re going to try to say that something like this leads people to objectify and abuse women, bring some evidence. Obviously this particular thing hasn’t been studied on a large scale because it’s a very small niche. But this has been studied in the context of porn and violence in movies and video games. And

New rule, how about we stop using the word “abuse” in terms of people interacting with software programs? At best, it’s idiotic, and creepy misplaced anthropomorphism, at worst, it’s actively offensive to actual humans who’ve been actually abused by other actual humans. You can’t abuse, or sexually harass, a chatbot

Transphobia is bigotted hatred and shouldn’t be encouraged. Trans rights are human rights, and trans identity is as valid as CIS identity.

*laughs in Fallout fandom*
ahaha, you kids with your modern 60's music.
*CRANKS THE FUCKING INK SPOTS*
OH NO
*MARTY ROBBINS INTENSIFIES*

I was born in ‘81. So I had an 80s/90s hybrid childhood. I missed out on that 80s teen fun and fashion. One thing a lot of young people don’t understand about the 80s? The paranoia. The misguided war on drugs had us all convinced a stranger would jump out at us and force us to take angel dust. We also had police come

I’ve mentioned it here before, but this seems like a prime moment to weigh in as a cishet woman whose spouse came out as gay after we’d been married for ten years.

It’s foreign to you, your understanding of NFTs is minimal.

100%

We should focus more on how Turkish Delights are complete ass and I went on a whole journey as a child searching for them because of the book. Top 5 disappointments of my life.

I just bought a leaf blower this weekend.

I’m OK with being called an idiot. I was an idiot. I’m also nearly 11 years sober, which doesn’t invalidate my misdeeds but at least shows that I did, in fact, address my alcoholism.

Man, it’d be a shame if in the next paragraph I said something like

As loads of people have pointed out, May isn’t Peter’s father’s sister, but Peter’s father’s sister-in-law. (there was a comic of questionable canon that strongly implied that May was Peter’s biological mother, with Richard and Mary Parker as Peter’s adoptive parents, with Ben and May taking their biological son back