The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

Gradine · Apr 26, 2022

Oh God, don't get me started on trans "dude" discourse. Don't call people words they don't like to be called, and let everything else go. It's that easy

Gradine · Apr 26, 2022

"Excuse me, all I did was Kramer into a three year thread to ~~be completely condescending and dismissive~~ offer helpful advice, and your ~~reasoned pushback~~ tantrum is totally ~~called~~ uncalled for!"

Gradine · Apr 26, 2022

Today in WTF IS JOANNE EVEN DOING NOW news, JK Rowling, a straight woman with a spotty, at best, record of supporting gay rights, has decided to co-opt Lesbian Visibility Week to attack trans women.

She also decided to publicly donate a f-ton of money to the legal defense of a woman suing the UK's most prolific LGBTQ+ charity, in case you were wondering where your stupid wizard movie ticket price was going.

RealAlHazred · Apr 26, 2022

Gradine said:
Oh God, don't get me started on trans "dude" discourse. Don't call people words they don't like to be called, and let everything else go. It's that easy

In my defense, that's if I don't know somebody's preferred pronoun. In general, everybody I haven't been introduced to is "Dude".

Levistus's_Leviathan · Apr 26, 2022

Gradine said:
Today in WTF IS JOANNE EVEN DOING NOW news, JK Rowling, a straight woman with a spotty, at best, record of supporting gay rights, has decided to co-opt Lesbian Visibility Week to attack trans women.

She also decided to publicly donate a f-ton of money to the legal defense of a woman suing the UK's most prolific LGBTQ+ charity, in case you were wondering where your stupid wizard movie ticket price was going.

Yeah, my family has been boycotting Rowling since 2020. We've heard that the most recent movie is awful anyways, so it's not really hard to avoid watching it, though.

eyeheartawk · Apr 26, 2022

AcererakTriple6 said:
Yeah, my family has been boycotting Rowling since 2020. We've heard that the most recent movie is awful anyways, so it's not really hard to avoid watching it, though.

It really makes it easier doesn't it? Like, if both the new version of thing thing you like is bad but also the creative behind it is also bad now.

Here's to hoping Alex Kurtzman really is the Zodiac Killer so I can stop hate watching Nu-Trek.

Snarf Zagyg · Apr 26, 2022

Some time ago, in a lifetime far away, I was sitting at a hotel bar in Zurich watching the World Cup. The Brazilians were playing, and I was having one (or more) caipirinhas to cheer them on (or cheer me on ... the difference was lost on me at the time).

Given that I was traveling alone, I struck up a conversation with the bartender. She was not Swiss, but German. We talked about all sorts of things- the soccer, what it was like to live in America, how to correctly muddle the drinks. And then we were talking about Switzerland, and she went into talking about how hard it was for her- that even though she was German, the Swiss were so restrictive (and this was at the time, I don't know if it has changed at all) that she had to periodically leave the country and come back in. I was about to commiserate about the unfairness of it all with her, when she explained that in her opinion, this was the way to do it.... not like her country. Her country, she explained, just let anybody in. Then she explained that it's better to make the white people have to work a little harder and follow the rules than to let all "The Turks" in. ....and it went on from there.

I had not seen that coming.

So I excused myself as quickly as possible and found somewhere else to watch the game.

Anyway, it's weird how you think a person might be a certain way, and then out of the blue, BAM. Also? Haven't seen anything involved in Harry Potter in quite some time.