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Hot take: When we talk about "people" in general wanting or not wanting to have kids, it obscures the fact that half of the people involved - future dads -

So let's say worst case scenario -- the cop freezes in place and does nothing, the girl with the knife manages to somehow stab the other girl right in the

I'm going to try to gather the energy to actually talk about the TERFs in the replies here rather than just yelling at them --The thing is, TERF ideology makes

The irony here is that if you reduce art to its most utilitarian "purpose" -- "A painting is for hanging on the wall to make a room look nice" --

I dunno - I don't think things have to be a 1:1 allegory to work artisticallyWanda's shtick FEELS very resonant to me even if the moral links are all hazy

What's so fucking grating -- to the point of being repulsive -- about all the whining is that it's people of privilege complaining about shit that *plenty* of people in

I'm going to change this into a harder question:There's a drug that causes anterograde amnesia that keeps you from forming long-term memories while you're on itA guy who wants to

I think one of the genuinely Unpopular Opinions I don't bring up very often is that I really am a minimalist in terms of physical possessions, and people like to

It is the most fucking hilariously 2020 thing that Team Trump is all old Boomers who still don't fully comprehend how the Internet works and have no idea that everyone's

You don't even have to get into the weeds analyzing the big stuff like plot and character and setting to criticize Harry PotterJust in terms of writing technique, JKR is

I heard an analogy ago from a grief counselor that's stuck with meJust going along with the general way we think of mental illness (including acute mental distress, "mental injury")

Because I'm petty, I'm going to gather you all around and tell you about that time JK Rowling was extremely wrong about something and, by being wrong about it, poisoned