Except it isn’t.

There is risk to the perception of the unions’ argument. It wouldn’t take much for the AMPTP to redirect any and all media scrutiny of their negotiating position to the A-listers, making their presence an instant negative.

True as hell.

Also it’s a fictional story about someone with uncertain parentage.

Spoken like some who has never woken up with an insane man ejaculating on your face as you try to sleep on a park bench because your parents won’t let you live at HOME. Fuck off with your professorial synonmyns which solve fucking NOTHING other than sanitizing your guilt complex.

That’s probably what it would mean within 6 months of common use.

And it makes them feel better for the most insipid, stupid reason of all, which is providing them a chance to demonstrate for a group they would like to impress that they understand the language to use to impress that crowd.

It’s one of those terms that does absolutely nothing to change the material reality of the person being described, but makes the person using it feel better.

It means when reactionaries are fighting and winning a culture war, don’t give them any more ammunition.

“Chosen” is the big qualifier that gets lost in the strategic shouting weaponized by reactionaries. I think what they successfully convey to fencesitters and normal people fed up with “wokeness” is that crazy-ass liberals are for destroying the family—the traditional nuclear family.

As a former homeless person kicked out of my house for being gay at 17, I hope you feel better about your white straight privilege with “unhoused”, a term that sanitizes reality for your sheltered comfort, one thay sweeps the issue under the rug...in your home, not house.

I think it’s important to point out that the “you’re/they’re not listening”, the refusal to “change the narrative”, and “fuck you” to feminists, is prefaced in the article with this:

I am an old, so I am not familiar with her work, or this controversy.

Hello Chris and/or Sarah

Tucker Carlson is a goon. However, he was probably less of a goon at 6 when this woman didn’t seem to want anything to do with him. I don’t blame him for writing her off in turn. Maybe they thought they were owed the wealth because of her lack of mothering. It seems she brought multiple kids into the world and…

I’m gonna go with both...

Like the time the actress who played Skyler in Breaking Bad had to write a full-on op-ed in the NYTimes to say, basically, I’m an actress not Skyler stop coming up to me on the street please.

“It was absolutely exhausting. And that is one of the reasons that led me to also feel comfortable with the feminine pronoun. I just got tired.”

Nah, I like that it’s following the Twilight Zone model of “it doesn’t have to be one thing every time.” Deliberately naming the zigs and zags under a different title would just cement Black Mirror’s reputation for “what if phones but bad?”

Imagine being a life-long Seinfeld fan and thinking “this man would clearly appreciate a hug from a total stranger!”