It pisses me off how people like to defend Margaret Sanger like she was some kind of heavenly angel of truth and light when actually she was a fucking eugenicist.  It's even more infuriating when they try to justify it with "a blee bloo lots of people back then thought eugenics were great!" I'm sorry, but that is HARDLY a good argument. I'm sure ( Read more... )

So I find it extremely aggravating when people go on about how I should like something "because it's by a female writer/artist/whatever" or "because it's by a LGBT person" or "because it's by a minority.". You know what, if it's GOOD QUALITY, then I might enjoy it. Or not, it might not end up being my cup of tea. But I'm not going to try and force ( Read more... )

   Occasionally I come across someone not from the US who is lecturing about how this or that thing we've done or are currently doing is stupid, unnecessary, clearly inspired by evil demons from the sixth dimension, etc. Generally the reasoning runs "Well, WE do/don't do XXX, wherefore the fact that YOU don't do/do it makes you [insert pejorative ( Read more... )