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I know this is going to make me sound extremely "old man yells at could", but I feel like the concept of "Civic Duty" needs to be brought up in our conversations on the left more often. Like, you do have a responsibility and a duty of care for the world around you. You have a duty to make it a better place, not one you should "get in trouble" for failing, but one you should at the very least strive to uphold.

it will be a full decade this october and will still never forgive them for calling a yaoi "yuri on ice"

looking at your page i get the impression that my use of language is not actually the thing that offended you enough to reply to this post

okay, i'm sure this has been addressed in the notes already, but i just... i have to check myself... this person does know that yuri as in lesbian romance stories is also a Japanese word. ...right?

the "language is a social construct, therefore linguistic misinformation is impossible. any claim about language is true if enough people say it is" misconception is of course annoying when applied to stuff like grammar because it's wrong in a nuanced way that's important to explain correctly to avoid spreading even worse ideas about language. but with etymology it's like. no that's not even the part of language that's a social construct, you're making a claim about history. this is something that you really shouldn't think you can just make up

language changes over time but a popular tumblr post claiming that a figure of speech from the bible is actually the short version of its own comeback isn't language changing

btw one of the main tells for false etymology posts online is that they often are presented as something the poster "realized", as opposed to "learned". as though historical facts about how language has evolved are things that you can figure out on your own by thinking about words hard enough

the fantasy lesbian adventurer is immune to the seductive evil sorceress's feminine wiles because she's butch4butch

this is exactly why any evil sorceress worth her salt keeps a towering knightgirl in gleaming black armor "on retainer"

well it's one of two reasons anyway

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just watched a star trek episode about a planet that relied so heavily on it's computer system that they all forgot the basics of their own knowledge. and that allowed them to miss the fact that they were being posioned with radiation and nearly ending their civilization. because they couldn't use their own knowledge to figure things out. i bring this up for no reason in particular

i really hate sensitivity advice in ttrpgs thats clearly being written for a table of cishet white abled men

like okay i understand you are trying to stop grognard gary from making female players miserable with constant sexual assault threats and that's a well intentioned goal but have you accidentally written a 'safety tool' or 'gender in [setting]' subheader that stifles and silences female players who want to reflect on or explore a societal force present in every aspect of their life through their character and play? does your rule or declaration intended to make sure women are comfortable also allow men who are uncomfortable thinking about misogyny to tell them, with all the best liberal intentions, not to bring the vibe down? because frankly there are countless such cases and i find it really frustrating (& ofc the same is true wrt race, disability, sexuality, etc)

i always hate how every magical girl game has to start with a 5 paragraph text about how "Its not actually about magical *Girls*, its just about Magical People, and girls is the genre name" like cmon dawg. at some point you're going so woke you loop back around to being a lil sexist

I appreciate how you clearly actually thought about it instead of just going "Oh just ignore the genre name"! Its very very neat. Honestly. its out of scope. maybe i should like talk about why i dislike the Magical Girl Gender Baggage so much

i will point out that PreCure is a thing that exists and has actually done a couple permutations of boy Magical Girls in recent years and it's still *decidedly* a Magical Girl show and he is a Magical Girl without being a girl.