Hate to be one of those folks who has actually collaborated with Fantano within the past week on a review and has had somewhat regular conversations with him, but that Fader piece was a total hack piece and borderline libelous to boot, deliberately stripping out context because Fantano has taken aim at some of their…

It’s not too hard to understand the satiric tone of those thatistheplan videos. Fantano is a critic who spends a lot of time reading shit on the internet. When he picks on SJWs, it’s only because they tend to think in dogmatic cliches (his real target).

This is a garbage hitpiece. I thought the AV Club had better editing/research standards than this.

Check out the last line of the article, “For an in-depth review, please visit our sister site.”

I hope this has been mentioned around here before, and I don’t expect anyone cares, but historically “man” was a gender-neutral term (back in the middle ages the prefixes wer- and wif- specified “male man” or “female man”). This has a legacy in our modern language in the same sort of way that words that came to us…

Because it plays on a colloquialism?