Yes! I mean, did you read the article you linked?

Ahhh, yeah. If we’re thinking about the same comment, I’m not really sure how to read it, if I’m honest?

That’s your child. And they’re ten. That is a far, FAR cry from making claims about deception detection in an adult woman not personally known to you based on televised testimony.

Me? I can’t lift people out of the gray, I haven’t been followed by Jezebel in years. Not since I said I had previously enjoyed the podcast Throwing Shade, a show which an old editor did not like.

It’s that last clause for me. Seeing how much Depp is defended on Twitter, I started going down the timelines of some of these people. And it never is very far to go from the tweets in support of Depp to the tweets fantasizing about being fucked by Captain Jack Sparrow.

You missed the comment where I explained I’m a psychologist, huh?

Hi, I’m a psychologist. This means a master’s in applied clinical psychology, a doctorate in clinical psychology, and a biennially-maintained license. My specialty is behaviorism, my training and expertise is in human behavior.

That’s all junk science. It’s cop-drama bullshit, and literally performs worse than randomly at detecting deception or motive.

This is minor and I don’t expect you to un-gray me, but it’s “trans person,” not “transperson.” Being trans is just one thing about a person, not the defining characteristic of their personhood. Like “tall person,” “nice person” and “fast person,” “trans” is just an adjective that modifies but does not define…

Without question this is the closest to likable the guy’s ever been.

I don’t understand this whole “a party he does not belong to” thing about Sanders. He’s a capital-D Democrat. He has been for decades. He formally runs for Senate as an independent, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t a Democrat. He caucuses with the Democrats, and it’s in writing that he’s a member of the Democratic party.

Varrick is evil and I detest the way the show portrays him as wacky comic relief—there’s even a moment in season 3 where Bolin comments on this, and kind of goes “this guy tried to kill us, and is responsible for so much death. We’re just gonna be cool with that?” And everyone says “yeah” and he moves on. And so does…

More than anything else, Korra is ideologically an absolute fucking mess. It’s a show that is willing to have sympathy for autocrats and fascists, and will condemn straw-man versions of leftist ideologies that never intersect with reality. Main characters are war profiteers, and we’re supposed to like them for it.…

Any confusion you’re insisting occurred is made up. If it was technically comprehensible and technically correct, then you can technically move on with your life because you understood what the article was communicating without any issues.

In each case, the specific referent for the pronoun is extremely obvious. “ND Stevenson confirmed that the adaptation of their webcomic...” leaves no question that we’re talking about Stevenson’s comic. “ND Stevenson has been open about how Nimona is a story informed by his own life and experiences” leaves absolutely…

Using multiple pronouns in an article about a person who uses multiple pronouns highlights that they don’t just use one. Right now, ND Stephenson uses he, she, and they. Not just they. Not just he. There’s nothing complicated about that, as long as the referent is clear in the sentence.

Fox News is at this point just a vehicle for stochastic terrorism.

Handy calls themselves a “Catholic anarchist,” which might be progressive if it weren’t just absurd on its face. Anarchism is opposition to artificial hierarchies, and I don’t think there’s any more blatant an artificial hierarchy than the structure of the Catholic church.

“We can’t police every element of someone’s personal life so we shouldn’t bother condemning sexual harassers or rapists in any meaningful capacity” is already a very bad take, but even by your own standards Will Smith is only guilty of simple battery, which is a misdemeanor.