I am rapidly turning against relativism. I'm still a constructivist, of course, but I'm starting to see a suspicious trend in relativists: basically, blaming the problems (which they insist, condescendingly, are not real "problems" but just "quirks") of developing countries on those countries' cultures, and not, say, on anything anyone else (like ( Read more... )

Okay, so you know how I've always joked about people thinking of DBZ as racist because of the whole, um, SSJ-Aryan thing?  Everybody thinks, "Oh, that crazy girl, reading too much into that stupid kid's cartoon again."  Everyone laughs that Namek is a planet of black people, not thinking anyone will actually think that.

TAKE THIS!

So, everybody feel ( Read more... )