Anyone here nurture too much lingering high-school era hostility towards sports and athletes in general to take a side in this? *raises hand*

There’s a Wikipedia page for a word you made up. Why should I care?

That’s all stupid. You made up a term and then argue about whether it actually applies.

No, my answer is that religious believers are affirmatively worse in every way.

Illegal Immigrant First Lady Melania Trump. Never leave out the first part of her title. It’s official.

That anything like Christians calling themselves “the Saved” or “the Elect”?

How about instead of atheists being more deferential, religious people behave better, in way that actually makes them easier to respect?

This also applies to Richard Dawkins.

Isn’t that very soft-pedal touched-upon in the Dark Materials books? That almost everyone is accompanied by their daemon-animal which is the opposite gender from them, except for a few people (like 7-10%) whose daemon is mysteriously the same gender as them? It’s never delved into, it’s just put out there and people…

You understand that “new atheism” is something that non-atheists made up, right?

Yes, because in a world where 91% of all elected officials identify as Christian and 81% of all self-identified Christian voters voted for Trump, it’s totally on atheists to behave better and be nicer and politer.

This is why I think that every print, every digital copy, every prop and every still of of Ready Player One should be collected and burned before it’s released. There’s it’s sheer stupidness of course, but also the fact that the people who want to see it most manifestly do not deserve the pleasure of doing so. It’d be…

“VR: No, It Still Isn’t Very Good”

People need to stop appropriating trans terminology for this shit.

Why? ‘Cause POC are smarter and funnier than white people?

That’s progress.

Pretty sure Blazing Saddles is timeless. Certainly I like it more than ‘woke’ entertainment today.

Based on the insistence of the PC that everyone else is NOT being PC, not even when they try to, then yes: I would say that according to you people, ‘not being an asshole’ is really hard indeed. Nothing’s ever good enough for you. Whatever is offered is never enough. So I’ve simply stopped trying.

I had high hopes that this could resolve the problems around ‘political correctness’, but then I was immediately told that it ‘doesn’t solve the problem [whatever problem that is]’ because it’s ‘voluntary’. I have no idea what involuntary solution is being alternatively considered, but it was just taken as…

‘Cause the makers of the game felt like it.