I agree. Twee and violence don’t really go together well.

This makes Chunk very happy.

You could literally create any strict set of requisites and always find someone excluded. Im sorry your life has been hard but you need to back off if you think that white gays dont deserve to have marriage rights because they are already privileged enough. Back off so much for deciding that based on their skin color…

So you gotta wonder what the Big Bad Wolf is tooling around in.

These are all terribly adorable, but it would ruin the kawaii to see them actually killing one another. As long as we’re talking about A-Team or 1980s GI Joe type violence, I’d be down with this!

The problem is that the language and tactics used to argue the 3rd wave issues such as trans rights, issues of rape and consent, etc are still the same holdovers from the 2nd wavers, the gay rights movement and the civil rights movement.

It’s when your movement stops being a rational one, based off of pragmatism and self-criticism, and starts becoming a religion, fanaticism based on dogma rather than discourse.

I accidentally hit the Reply button to this comment, and this is what I saw. And obeyed.

Cartoon Network! Do this now!

As a guy who has certainly evolved a lot of his opinions because of interactions and learning opportunities with feminists, I worry how the movement can engage outsiders if its only mode becomes ‘silence’.

Feminism has found its Tea Party

I am listening a great podcast about the French Revolution right now...and it is amazing how fast that revolution ended up eating its own children because of the ever moving line of who is a revolutionary and who is not. Sadly...all revolutions go throught this.

It is a stunning example of feminism devouring itself.

Sigh...this is why we can’t have “nice” things. Agree or disagree, fine. But really, this kind of thing just adds more fuel to the Rush Limblah army—”Feminazis!” he’ll cry, while sitting on his mountain of money. And the real issues will be swept under the rug as usual.

I don’t think vampire fiction is an accursed genre. TWILIGHT does not retroactively sully over a century of classic vampire stories, from the likes of Stoker, Le Fanu, Matheson, Sturgeon, Rice, Yarbro, Charnas, Lumley, Saberhagen, Somtow, Kim Newman, Tanith Lee, and others ....

(Says the guy who grew up reading DARK…

Vampire Lawyer! Hellooooooo, million-dollar book deal!

The difference is that it’s quite possible for a vampire to be a sympathetic character.

Um...mentioning that Tanith wrote in that genre (along with many others) is far from “pigeonholing”.