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1. Don’t tone police. It is NOT your right to dictate how someone should react to their oppression. 2. Don’t demand a detailed explanation. You’re basically asking the person to justify their call out. It’s exhausting, many resources are available, and often this is just a way to try and derail, st...

I thought both halves came out for PSP? I think my roommate has both and I've been meaning to get around to them but I keep forgetting to :L EP Portable hasn't been translated yet but it's available as a PSOne classic with the original translation, which isn't half bad. Anyways, IS has probably the...

Yo IB (and I guess I really should get a tumblr too lol), re: the P3/4 comparison post: Persona 2's halves have easily the best cast of the series, and they're also probably the most progressive (right down to having a canonically queer protagonist) and I find the plot/theme works better than for 3/...

Infinity Biscuit wrote:I know literally no women who have ever given any indication of specifically liking big dicks

is this something just made up by cis guys or what

gay dudes

haven't you ever heard of size queens

Let's take advantage of the Halloween month to delve a little into horror. I've been reading through a decent chunk of Ramsey Campbell (several collections of shorts, several novels from the 80s through recently) and I've developed some thoughts about his work. Ramsey Campbell wrote that his first n...

Is Pinker the guy who wrote that big book on how democracy and freedom is tied to being literally perfect or am I confusing him with someone else? He did write one about how postmodernism was responsible for the Holocaust, and he did defend Larry "dump all the pollution in Bangladesh" Sum...

Contrarianism of the day: Such findings have led some political scientists to entertain a heretical idea called the Capitalist Peace. The word liberal in Liberal Peace refers both to the political openness of democracy and to the economic openness of capitalism, and according to the Capitalist Peac...

Define 'Ghost in the Shell' Because there's a lot of it :v The original movie, not Innocence or SAC, or holding up a copy of the manga or MMI and narrating panels. "Ah, yes, and here the Major is fantasizing about an orgy with a variety of young women, and Batou has- ah-ha- ended up accidental...

Somehow I managed to leave out the critical note that this was in working environments. Anyways, if you want an example of "clueless allies", just take a look at people freaking out about a gay boxer wearing pride flag boxers in a currently-active SDN thread (in Off-Topic, if you want to k...

I mean, there are points at which conventional identity politics break down, but that's entangled in the ongoing privatization of public space and the destruction of democratic freedoms and fairly well away from what most people would consider important. And even then, it's more that it's difficult ...

I might be giving an introduction to a screening of Ghost in the Shell next year.

the whole talk of identity politics betraying the cause of proletariat solidarity reminds me of a similar thing within the feminism movement "solidarity is for white women" a slogan adopted by a lot of black feminists or womanists who find that the feminist movement has pushed aside thing...

Trying this 16/ The distant sound of laughter Work had been an absolute shit today. A pair of pointless meetings where nothing got done, an hour spent trying to talk a coworker into doing their goddamn job, and then the copier had gone down. Just absolutely terrible. But at least Jacky had the walk ...

The sad thing is this is exactly like in the 1980s in Queensland. PS our police commissioner at the time was so corrupt that he was literally the only person in 100 years to lose their Knighthood. Its just another in quite a long line of expansion of police powers with no oversight or public feedba...

Sigh. So I see this today I am not a motorbike rider, and I don't particularly care for motorbike riders (always clogging up the twisty roads :argh: ) But lets just trample on more civil liberties in the name of LEURZGH AND ORDAH and TERF ON CRYYYME. :quack: So what I'm getting from this is that th...

so yes I'm a PC and no I'm not a god damn socialist (the NDP were receiving millions in funding from the USSR until the end of the 80s) and I'm not apologetic about it but don't try to lump me in with Harper and his merry band of Cons :whine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm9Fgq3r_zA#t=1m15s

I think that the biggest issue with pop-social justice is a lack of barriers between general cases and particular cases, and/or between the systematic and the individual, because the two largely overlap. That is, 90% of transphobia from "radical" feminists comes from assumptions about the ...

Yeah, that was way before my time, I only started reading SA when you (or somebody) linked a story thread on SDN. And I think that the closing of Helldump is also visible as a dip around July 09.

Wonder why SB took off so suddenly.

Also, you can see where SomethingAwful closed down three forums at once haha.

Bakustra wrote: So post all the worst jokes you've stolen from other, funnier people.

Your posting.

From the good folks at SomethingAwful: Me: Angry Nintendo Nerd, what tag should I browse on Gelbooru? James Rolfe: ASS So post all the worst jokes you've stolen from other, funnier people. Tell the Aristocrats and I will exsanguinate you via iTunes. Another, original one: So former Supreme Court Chi...

I've completely stopped using words ever since taking an online telepathy course Tom Clancy is dead. Happened yesterday apparently. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/author-tom-clancy-dead-66-article-1.1473782 Now he belongs wholly to Pearson PLC and Bertelsmann. And yes I'm one of...

I;m currently working on a six-page take home exam for my sociology course. For one question, I chose to compare and contrast the theoretical perspectives of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber. I came across some qwuotes duringm y research from Marx and for the liofe of me I really dont' see ...

Just checked : the President cannot dissolve congress. What the fuck ? The American system is purposefully dysfunctional (this is called "being a deliberative body") and was created by people who thought they could prevent political parties from forming. Also, they wanted to give the Engl...

Showing up fine for this American.