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Note that they specifically acknowledge that they knew Korra would never be gay.

It's also very sad that one's only interest in the show was that one thought it might have a lesbian in it. Or at least an asexual you can pretend is really lesbian. This is just as shallow as someone choosing not to watch a show because it has gay people in it. Heck, I'm a conservative Christian, and my default reaction to gay characters is "ehh", unless it reaches fanfic levels of the new guy being the morally ambiguous bisexual former lover/professional partner of the main character who finds his estranged (also evil) brother and wears a ridiculous coat with no shirt.

And that's why I don't watch Torchwood.

http://www.fimfiction.net

Pick a story. Any story. Now use your spacebar or Page Down to scroll. Notice anything?

Yes, that's right, that stupid bar always covers the first few lines. So you have to constantly scroll up to keep reading those few lines. There's a reason FF.net keeps those options parked at the top of the page, where they can't interfere.

And that's not the only usability flaw. The header takes up over half the vertical space of the screen, and there's no way to turn it off or minimize it that I've found. So if you're, say, in the options section, clicking a link to a new subsection means scrolling down every single time. It doesn't use AJAX to switch between sections without having to load a new page, but it does use Javascript to make what should be an unobtrusive page element obtrusive.

Sheesh.
-J

So I taste my milk, notice it's slightly off.

Then I pour some of it out a few hours later, and cottage cheese comes out.

Except the expiration date is three days later.

>searching for a preview of a Community episode on YT
>keep getting bits of the entire episode

WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON

You should not write that "Alice sees the form of Bob" unless shapeshifting or bodysnatching or suchlike is involved. If you want to convey uncertainty on Alice's part, say something like "Alice sees...Bob?" or "Alice sees what looks like Bob." Without uncertainty, it's just "Alice sees Bob."

Similarly, Carl's face does not "adopt a frown", unless you're implying the frown is a false expression, or the tone of the story actually requires such verbiage. "Carl frowned." There you go.

And it is not necessarily funny that you're breaking the forth wall, no matter how wacky the injoke.

Think of writing like a taxi; your job is generally to get the reader to their destination as quickly and efficiently as possible. Purple prose is often the sign of someone writing like they think a writer "should" write, instead of using the writing to tell the story.

Read your stories aloud, and see if anyone talks that way. If you have difficulty saying it, it's generally time for a rewrite.

Apparently, I used a greeting card app on Facebook and sent someone a birthday card.

Someone whose birthday I did not know.

At a time when I was asleep.

And I'm not actually signed up for the app, yet it still has permissions.

And I apparently authorized it when I signed up for Kickstarter yesterday.

Which gave it permission to send cards to people retroactively.

On the other hand, the lady from my Church thought it was nice that I remembered her birthday, and I didn't want to break her heart.

Jezebel, 2010: Why shameless objectification [of men] can be a good thing

Jezebel, 2012: It's bad for men to stare at womens' butts

Someone apparently said Fluttershy on MLP might be a FtM transsexual.

[link] haniemohd:

“…Though no one would ever think of using the term honor violence (we reserve that descriptor for brown people who live somewhere else, motivated by religious something-or-other or tribal something-or-other), one-third of women murdered every year in the United States are killed by their intimate partners. In 2005 that amounted to 1,181 women, or three women every day. To put that in perspective, the UN estimates there are 5,000 honor killings every year in the entire world. 5,000 in a world of 6 billion versus nearly 1,200 in a single country of 300 million. In other words, a woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan. Those are scary numbers.”

- an excerpt from an extremely interesting and insightful article by one of my favourite comic artist and writer, G. Willow Wilson (which you can access by clicking the link above)

The logic is not sound.

Male on female relationship murders can be committed outside of honor killings. Wilson's questionable analysis assumes that those are the only ways women in the developing world are killed by their spouses, which is itself inherently...problematic, to put it nicely. Heck, honor killings are sometimes committed by other relatives. Ironic that Wilson snarks at imaginary people for thinking honor killings are just something done by "brown people" somewhere, and then exposes her own ignorance and faulty logic.

Statistics indicate that both men and women in the US abuse their SOs at about the same rate, and men are much less likely to report it or have it acted upon. In fact, if a man calls the police on his girlfriend or wife, he could end up arrested in some parts of the US. There's an entire TVTropes page about this. Guy kills his wife, he's a vicious killer, a woman kills her husband, he drove her to it; see Lifetime's "Snapped".

I also began to see, with frightening clarity, the malice. It would be too broad to say that men hate women, men are afraid of women, men desire power over women–though there are certainly men of whom all these things are true, there are many more men of whom none of these things are true. Yet there’s the malice. Creeping and ugly and everywhere, as though it has a life of its own.

Should I get a stake, or a silver bullet?

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/03/ff_reddit/all/1

Of course, like any site that thrives on pseudonymity, Reddit attracts its share of the sick and the deluded. There’s a subreddit, MensRights, “for people who believe that men are currently being disadvantaged by society,” and for years the site admins tolerated subreddits devoted to pictures of underage girls.

Men's Right's advocates are, far too often, misogynists. I'm not denying it. However, there is some gold in the muck, and anyone saying Internet Feminism should be thrown out because of the vast amount of misandry and double standards it has would have the sky come down on them. Ironically, such people are often accused of being MRAs merely for negatively criticizing Internet Feminism. I like how merely saying that men are disadvantaged by society is "sick and deluded" and comparable to distributing kiddie porn. Good job, Wired. Real good job.

Alex: You're so biased you can't even admit the study might be biased!
Me: Sure I can. The war study might be biased. Your turn. Can you say "the study might not be biased?"
Alex: I don't see why I should just to make you feel better. Yes, it might not be biased, but we shouldn't put any weight on that, because it might be biased.

This guy also argues that the Coalition is responsible for the Taliban's suicide bombings in Afghanistan because it was a "reasonable consequence" of the invasion. Personally, I don't think hanging an 8-year old boy as a spy or tricking an 8-year old girl into being a bomb mule is "reasonable".

Also, he kept accused someone of bias in favor of America, and specifically called him an American, and under the individuals profile picture it clearly says "Location: Montreal". He also said there's no evidence 9/11 was an attack on civilians.

He said there's no evidence 9/11 was an attack on civilians.

http://zenyattagal.tumblr.com/post/19588364518/feminists-hate-when-women-who-want-an-abortion-are

Feminists hate when women who want an abortion are told, “You should have thought of that when you had unprotected sex”, or “You should have just kept your legs closed!” They think it’s sexist and incredibly unfair. And you know what? I agree. Everyone makes mistakes and though I think everyone needs to be using birth control unless they want a child, they deserve a fallback option.
But then men come into the picture.
A man gets his girlfriend pregnant. He doesn’t want the baby; she does. He has no recourse and is hit up for a hefty child support payment.
What do feminists say when men complain?
“You should have thought of that before you had unprotected sex! You should have kept it in your pants!”
What?!
How is that even remotely fair? You can despise an argument when used against women, but you’ll turn around and use it for men? [read more]

I am seriously worried that I'm becoming That Guy Who Complains About Social Justice Stuff All The Time.

NSFW blog name and URL

That feminism managed to convince the world that the oppression of patriarchal societies placed women at the bottom in every single facet of life (even areas where they were elevated), in a position where they were utterly powerless and incapable of inflicting oppression, or where their only avenue to power and agency was through their usefulness as brood mares, domestic slaves and receptacles for male ejaculate, while men alone had the power necessary to oppress anyone, is a feat of sociopolitical chicanery worthy of Charles Ponzi.

Again.

As I've blogged, Social Justice advocates--those campaigning against racism, sexism, and just about anything else that has an "ism" on the end--are often full of crap. I'm not saying they don't have good intent, just lousy and sometimes actively damaging execution. At some point, a lot of people started caring more about Being Right than actually changing anything. Those on Tumblr are a particularly virulent strain, seeing as that website is exceptional at indulging everyone's Special Snowflake side.

And then there are the tumblr transsexuals, who seem to run on nothing but rage and hate and frustration.

"Gender[doggie]", like I said before, says she's not on the website to teach anyone anything. Which means, logically, that what she is there to do is yell at people and get her rage on. You know how feminist websites often seem to be trying to actively alienate the very people they're allegedly trying to communicate with? Imagine that, turned up to eleven. And then someone snapped the knob off.

You know how many SJ sites say that the opinion of [majority] isn't relevant or correct unless it aligns with the opinions of [minority in question] or a social justice advocate claiming to represent such? I keep running into transsexuals on tumblr who think that cisgendered people have no right to have an opinion on transpeople, or join a conversation about such.

At all.

I took one of those posts, and pointed out that for a member of a group complaining about oppression and silencing, Mr Spencer "sure seems quick to tell cissexual people what opinions they’re allowed to have and how they should express them".

Okay, perhaps I shouldn't have tagged the post "hypocrisy", "hypocrite" and "logic".

His response was basically "!!!"

The funny thing is that one of his little friends did that incredibly pretentious roleplaying thing. Specifically, they said they were doing something to me, ~in between tildes~. I didn't bother to check what. The only other people I've seen do something like that are furries. They were using the same ego-protection mechanics as furries do. Jesus Christ, that's sad.

That's not a curse, that's a prayer. I actually feel sorry for Spenser and people like him now. Not because they're trans, but because they've built up their rage and their pain into a wall that they keep the world on the other side of, and they absolutely refuse to let anyone tear it down and expose the tear-streaked, scared little children hiding inside where the bad people can't get to them. The need to belong, no matter who to, can be a powerful thing, and it often leads down some very dark roads. It is possible to be trans and a healthy, well adjusted human being, but it often takes a lot of work, and it may seem easier to build that wall. All I can do is hope that someday they let the world in.

Come to think, I feel that way about a lot of people.

Pinkie Pie's strange abilities, such as breaking the fourth wall and behaving like an archetypical cartoon character, only work when it would be funny.

Which is not the same as your apparent belief that her using them automatically makes things funny.

-J

Gender[blam];

Question: I'm what you would call a cis man, and the thought that I'm complicit in any kind of comprehensive, systematic oppression doesn't sit well. I can't take responsibility for the actions of everyone who shares this place in the universe, but I can take full responsibility for my own actions. As a human, what specifically can I do in my daily life that will tangibly mitigate injustice against non-cis people?
Answer
The [gently caress] is this [poo poo]?

Systems. How the [gently caress] do they work? Your individual actions boost a system cuz they’re coupled with individual actions of other people like you. You perpetuate it. You ARE responsible for the system because you work for it for free, to keep it running.

And expecting us to be your vending machine of knowledge is yet another fucked up thing that perpetrates cissupremacy. Rediscover the fucking internet and do some research.

I've mentioned this transwoman transsexual activist before, specifically on the matter of Shakesville's inability to recognize its own flaws. And yet, she seems perfectly content to fall into the same rage-based rhetorical nonsense many social justice advocates like; raging at people who ask you for information for not knowing said information. It's a high-level passive-aggressive technique, and if it was used in a film about a domineering spouse, then the audience would declare that character a villain. Even her profile says

She swears a lot, isn’t an activist or here to [gently caressing] educate you, has no interest in justifying her continued existence to bigoted piles of excrement and really just doesn’t give any [gently caresses] about your precious privileged feelings.

"I am activist, hear me roar."

In fact, judging by the latest post on her tumblr, Ms. Hope is not merely an activist--despite her claims--but a transsupremacist. In fact, she thinks all "privileged people" are "bigoted piles of excrement", and when someone points out she assumed they were privileged just because they disagreed with her, her response, not in so many words, was that they must be cisgendered because they disagreed with her and aren't explicitly saying they're trans. Apparently, only trans people--and cis people who agree with them--can hold valid opinions on what is, to say the least, a really complicated set of issues.

Speaking of which, Ms. Hope seems to have quite a lot of those. I mean, Melissa "Shakesville" McEwan-level, which is ironic considering how much she hates McEwan and her website.

Still, at least she hasn't reached Ginmar levels of crazy. Not quite.

The funny thing is that if you take the idea that cissexual people are responsible for the negative actions of other cissexuals, and change it to apply to, say, Black people, or Muslims, or women, it looks exactly like bigotry and prejudice.

Blog: We shouldn't question the stories of female rape victims.
Rape victim: I recant. I wasn't raped.
Blog: How do we know she's telling the truth about not being raped? We don't really know what happened!
http://feministing.com/2009/09/18/hofstra-rape-culture-and-the-bigger-picture/comment-page-1/#comment-90655

Also from that blog; http://feministing.com/2007/04/12/you_will_not_shame_me/

Moreover, innocent until proven guilty only applies to certain people.
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So, if these guys were in fact falsely accused, they got a taste of how black men are treated EVERY DAY by the criminal justice system.

Speaking as a black man myself who had an encounter that may or may not have been racism on my way to church this morning; if it's so bad, why do you want anyone to go through it?

The funny thing is that in the Hofstra case, the same blog came down on the side of the defendant, even though the accused were black, and tried to soft-shoe around the whole "black men false accused of rape" with "we need to look at the bigger picture!" and "there are more reasons for someone to rape than to falsely accuse!" and "how will this affect future victims?". GOOD JERB WITH THE CONSISTENT MORAL STANDARDS THAR.

http://feministing.com/2009/09/18/hofstra-rape-culture-and-the-bigger-picture/comment-page-1/#comment-90668

THIS.
The whole “let’s look at the bigger picture here” glosses over such a huge component of this issue that it’s downright nuts. The fact that these guys were African American played a huge role in every step of this case.
It seems callous to try to go macro scale before looking at the micro. This kind of stuff matters to folks who are troubled by the fact that they’re perceived as sex-crazy beasts driven by lust, especially in the context of the legal system.

EDIT: Here's a more recent post, where the blogger seems actively offended by the discussion of bias against men who are accused of rape. She also thinks they should've mentioned rape right on the poster, which she would've doubtless decried as insensitive and a trigger. in fact, she specifically showed up just to hijack the topic, and wants backpatting and hugs for it. Ironically, as some commenters pointed out, she did the exact same thing as men who make it "all about the menz" in feminist discussions.

"I see someone has tumbled a nice black and white photo of a coupleoh look a penis."

I don't give a FUCK about being a bigot.

Again, not giving a fuck if I'm sexist. I'm right.

Yup, always the mother's fault! Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

I can tell you one thing. If it's between trusting my gut and giving into a bunch of internet bullies you can bet which one I'll choose.

The funny thing is that the statistics she used to support her point had been proved objectively wrong by this point in the conversation. She said 99% of child abusers were men, therefore, she was justified in not wanting a man to wipe her girl's behind at preschool. Then she admits she's being sexist, and she doesn't care. Then she deletes the post (backup) and apologizes (NSFW title). Note: Those are Men's Rights Advocates and their sites involved, so be prepared for the exact same sort of generalizations you'd see on, say, Shakesville, just in the other direction

I'm betting more people would watch the show if you would actually say what it is in your photoset. All I know is that it's on IFC, and may involve Darnell from My Name is Earl.

Srsly?
-J

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