@Auspice said in Forum Factions:
@Sparks said in Forum Factions:
@Meg said in Forum Factions:
@Misadventure i am sorry, boo!! You are now added to pretty princesses!
Wait, being a pretty princess is an option?
Sparks and I just want to be in factions other than pain, too!
Sparks is in the constructive faction!
Guys you have to take the factions SERIOUSLY. These are SERIOUS CATEGORIZATIONS. They have to be ACCURATE, not ASPIRATIONAL.
@Roz Well, to be fair, between the ages of 4-12 so many boys are walking embodiments of Mac from Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia whose interests include:
Lol you don't need to be fair! I already absolved you! (I was serious: I don't think anyone should have to worry about 'my childhood interests were not egalitarian enough.' I mean. We can worry about that in the sense of 'We should fix the part of our society that has overly strict gender rules so that children can grow up without being told they need to restrict themselves to certain types of toys and interests so as to be masculine or feminine enough,' but that's COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. )
Did anyone watch the RL GLOW back in the day? I loved the Netflix series, and it got me super nostalgic for it. When I was 11 I was torn between my mixed desires of wanting to be a GLOW wrestler, roller derby diva, actress, or astronaut.
This is gonna sound misogynistic as hell but back when I was a kid I gave zero fucks about GLOW because I was a boogery, GI-Joe worshipping, He Man Woman Hater Club BOY who thought nothing was more awesome than the power of Hulkamania and the Ultimate Warrior.
As a member of the Roaming SJW Feminist Language Police faction, I absolve you of the worry of misogyny. You were just a kid interested in stuff.
@Meg said in Forum Factions:
YOU ARE BOTH BANNED FROM THIS THREAD. Roaming feminist language police, get them in all the other threads.
I do really wish everyone could just get in the habit of not tagging people if they're not actually addressing them to have a conversation.
ETA: If I tag you, I'm THROWING DOWN.
@Sparks dug deep for KKJ, that one wasn't even ever licensed in America. (Well, the manga was, but not the anime.) I had a shelf of fansubs for it.
@Sparks I'm sorry, you are too nice and reasonable and not prone to raging enough. 
@scar YOU CAN'T BE IN MORE THAN ONE FACTION IT'S AGAINST THE FORUM FACTION RULES
@Meg said in Forum Factions:
Your requests are noted. I am also going to do 'Actually Constructive About Our Hobby On A Board About Our Hobby'.
lol that faction doesn't exist
@Ghost said in Forum Factions:
@Meg said in Forum Factions:
Ghost
Notable members:
- @Ghost
- @surreality sometimes
What? Noooooo I was joking.
I don't have a faction. I'm a mercenary that temporarily joins others to gangpile onto concepts and/or privately message people with supportive messages when I don't want to personally involve myself.
Same as everyone else.
The @Meg has spoken. There is no appeals process.
What are you talking about? They're totally canon. What version of the show were you watching?
The version where they aren't that close?
Never heard of it.
@Kanye-Qwest said in RL Anger:
That Venus and Mars, though
I'll admit: I had hoped.
What are you talking about? They're totally canon. What version of the show were you watching?
@surreality I have to agree with @Ganymede that I think you're misreading @kk's post pretty damn hard to get "personal attack" out of it.
@Meg I do think there was a sense of disbelief or skepticism expressed by some people that someone could be living in America in 2017 without realizing that cunt is considered a really nasty thing to call someone, which I could see further extrapolated to a point of "you must be offended by this."
Anyways, I'm still going to land squarely in the camp of "someone objected strongly to being called a cunt and the real problem in that conversation was the people who insisted she shouldn't take issue with the word." Not the people who then had to defend their right to be offended by a word that's considered highly aggressive by a lot of the country.
And I totally agree that calling something a "basic point of etiquette" is very far from saying "you have to be offended by this." I think it's another way of saying, "There is a very common cultural reaction to using this word that is strongly negative." I guess I just refuse to take issue with the idea that people should avoid just dropping loaded words like that at the first sign of annoyance. Which is, again, not the same thing as saying "you have to be offended by the word." Some people toss it around in groups that are totally fine with it. I still don't love that, because I think language is complicated and that the words we use do have an affect on how we view the world, but I'm not arguing about it. (Right now. In this thread. >_>) I still don't think it's so terrible to say that there's cultural etiquette of "maybe don't throw that word around in attack on people you barely know because it's considered a pretty nasty word." The fact that this is common etiquette is, in fact, true. Whether that's terrible or not.
