People are blaming this on AA being unable to compete with China, but a few days before the sale, the CEO wrote about how he couldn’t compete with prisons. He said prisons can pay prisoners pennies an hour to make clothing, whereas he has to pay a decent wage, and prisons don’t have to pay for employee safety because…

I don’t mean to be overly cynical, but how sure are we that this isn’t some random sap who was forced into a false confession?

I never got into Paksenarrion, and I hated, hated,HATED the ending of The Speed of Dark. Is Serrano better than those?

Steadfast by Jack Campbell. He sidesteps a lot of the sexism and other conservative assholery I usually see in military sci-fi. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty cool in a Star Trek kind of way.

Now’s as good a time as any to remember that the late Carl in question supported the John Birch Society and wanted to ban gay people from working in schools.

So if acting like a jerk on Twitter is just an elaborate distraction from the people Trump is appointing, what on Earth are these appointments a distraction from?

One lesson I picked up from the first Gravity Rush: if your game involves moving, aiming, and firing, either two of those actions need to be part of the same control input, or you need to start selling games to people who have three hands. GR tries to compensate by, in essence, making you a living bullet so you can…

Ever heard of a country called Turkey?

I used to post on the same site as a man who thought the existence of gay sex was a stain on the fabric of reality that resulted in the existence of disease, and there would be no diseases if no one ever had gay sex. The man was absolutely insistent that nothing he said was harmful to gay people. After all, he stated…

I saw the feminist reaction when anti-fat-hate activists drove a fanartist to attempt to kill herself for drawing fanart that was “too skinny.” Feminists were outraged that ideology had been valued over an actual human life. I’ve seen similar harassment campaigns against “rapists” and “pedophiles” grow to the point…

I can’t talk about every single person who has rape fantasies, but many of the individuals I’ve interacted with cannot meaningfully be said to have chosen it. The most common example folks like to talk about is people who were raped and write fic that ritually reenacts the rape. I’ve seen other cases of people who…

But real, actual people who are not engaging in rape are being harassed and doxxed. You can’t talk as if the rhetoric you’re using and the tone you’re creating is separate from that.

In regards to some of the posts about rape fantasies: I once found the Tumblr of a person who posts art that I find horrific and disgusting. There was a point in her life where she nearly killed herself under the belief that she would inevitably go to hell for her fantasies, and she was planning to kill a bunch of…

It all comes back to the actual human beings. It’s not that “rape fantasists” or “pedos” aren’t going to hurt me, it’s that individual people whose posts I read on Tumblr or Fandom Secrets or even The Mary Sue are harmless and likable. Regardless of any rhetoric around categories, I can’t be made to hate or fear these…

I see it as a matter of threat management. People who tell me Muslims are a threat to me are more likely to be an actual, honest threat to me and my friends than the Muslims in my life are, so I don’t pick fights with Muslims. In the same way, people who campaign against “rape fetishists,” “pedophile apologists,” etc.…

Pokemon Go?

I am now seeing pro-Trump posters accusing the CIA of flat-out lying about Russian involvement in the election. I’m not even sure how to respond to that.

The first time I ever heard of Vicente Fox was when he was discussing Mexicans who went to America to take low-paying jobs. He said Mexicans were working jobs even black people wouldn’t do.

It all makes sense if, like Republicans, you think of transwomen as men. Since there are men who assault women in bathrooms, they argue for keeping all “men” out of bathrooms. Meanwhile, no one gives a shit about cases where transwomen go into men’s bathrooms and are sexually assaulted by the men in there.

I’m reminded of when George Wallace said he was defending liberty from tyranny by refusing to allow black kids and white kids to attend the same schools.