unable to take effective action; helpless or powerless.

Damn, beat me to it!

Well I think this letter about the filing of a Title IX complaint creates a chilling environment on campus, thus necessitating it’s own Title IX complaint. \sarcasm

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I’ve got several member of the joke police on me right now, it seems.

And the point is that maybe people shouldn’t be so hyper-reactive to the misinterpretation.

Context does count for a lot. The context here is two comedians talking about their comedy program. What feels really appropriate, when it’s just a reporter and no recording, is to take it with a grain of salt when’s it’s filtered from them, to a reporter, to the page.

I know another instructor who had a student accuse him of racial bias. The student went to our supervisor, and supposedly the exchange went something like this.

I WANT to believe.

You know how everyone was shitting on Seinfeld for talking about overly PC stuff ruining shit? This is part of what he was talking about. Comedians try random shit all of the time. Yes, even in front of reporters and college crowds. A lot of times it’s garbage. Because most stuff is garbage. And they have to find the…

From what I’ve heard this is about as funny a “joke” as you’d actually hear on Grace and Frankie cough 50% fresh on RT cough.

Oh it’s sooooo funny when privileged pretty rich white women do stuff that’d get the brown guy on the plane beat up and arrested!

good behavior in prison

Why would anyone have taken a story at face value? How did I not remember my Imperial to Metric real estate unit conversions? Obviously.

$1 for 11 square feet

There’s a woman markedly smarter than Tony Stark?

I thought the WHOLE point of Secret Wars and Battle World was to REBOOT the entire Marvel Universe, restart from scratch?

“Supports gay marriage” isn’t a protected class either.

Exactly. This cake is more on the side of a political statement than someone just going about their life. If someone came in and said I want a “Support Life”, “Support Choice” cake, etc. then a business should be able to say no.

By “difficult-to-understand customer” you mean someone with an accent, not weird ideas about food. And by “handle” them, you mean being “too proud to admit we were clueless”?