I think that’s totally fair. I’d venture a guess, though, that people who share what appear to be the ideology of the person I responded to aren’t angry leftists. I was sort of focusing on being “against” BLM from the perspective of someone who also thinks there are good reasons to build the wall, if that makes sense.

Would people who think the nuanced things you just described really call themselves “against” BLM, though? I think they’d either be more detailed or choose a word more carefully.

Not going to address the bulk of what you said because it’s based on personal experience, which wasn’t what I was addressing (I also meant, like, airtime, rather than physical space on a plane, and should have been clearer), but I’d point out that saying “loud men are annoying” isn’t the same thing as saying “and only…

I stated it was a joke in response to your first comment, which said literally nothing about this not being funny, or you understanding it was a joke at all. And I’m not sure where you’re finding “we” anywhere, considering I’m neither a) speaking on behalf of somebody who’s not here, b) leaving 90-paragraph replies,…

You’re not “discussing” anything. You dismissed the article because your wife, and now you’re vomiting your thoughts at me because I didn’t applaud your flippant reply.

Why are you speaking for your wife on the internet? Weird.

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Nope! It just doesn’t equate well with the rest of the examples you gave of whatever your little ideology happens to be.

You’re not very smart, are you? It must be hard to be so overwhelmed by things other people are able to distinguish between quite easily. I can see how blaming imaginary “PC culture” might make you feel better.

The “us” and “they” is a bit much for me in this context, but I understand where you’re coming from.

Nobody limited it, though. It’s just that it’s a well-studied fact that men dominate space, including airspace, more than women do.

But the “staying that way all flight” thing is a big part of why reclining can be bothersome. I guess if the flight is like 4 hours it’s whatever, but if it’s long enough for food you should never recline while that’s happening.

Eh, I’m tall, as is everyone in my family. Most are anti-recline for short flights, or at the very least reflective enough to understand why it’s something that people have strong feelings about.

Yeah, you missed the point. There are certain industries that—regardless of whether you want to work in them or not—DO currently have a culture of unpaid labor as an entry point. Those industries, many of which are responsible for producing entertainment, media and other things that very much matter in complex ways in…

I’m not sure where I stated that I expect access to anything. I also explicitly stated that it’s a person’s responsibility to be courteous as to HOW they enter space directly in front of somebody else, not that they don’t have the right to enter it at all.

Because it helps ensure that diversity will never increase in, like, entire industries?

The difference with the bathroom is that the bathroom is something everyone needs/in theory has equal use of. It’s a space that isn’t assigned to any particular person and to which everyone is equally entitled/guaranteed to need if you’re there long enough.

I don’t think that equivalence works, but I understand what you’re trying to say.

I wasn’t aware we were only discussing domestic flights, I guess. Sorry if I missed that in your initial comment.

Nobody thinks they’re not, though. Like...there’s not a person who doesn’t think/isn’t aware of this.