Tell me why this was necessary, fandom.Crap like this makes me want to retch. Your entitlement reeks. Putting aside the fact that no one is under any obligation whatsoever to run a fic archive or a fic exchange for you in the first place -- when things go wrong, uninformed ad hominem attacks directed at volunteers are about as far from appropriate ( Read more... )

By Jim Hines, who is awesome.

Privileged - Some people find this word so offensive that they’ll refuse to read any post or essay that uses it. This is a bad word. A naughty word. A word that likes to be tied up and spanked hard. Shun this word, or bring shame to your family! Remember, if “those people” would just work harder, they’d overcome all ( Read more... )

In how NOT to respond if someone calls you out on your privilege.

First of all, it's posts like this that led me to say what I said earlier. Like I said earlier, I don't have any problem with gay anything. Or black anything. Or Hispanic anything. Or trangender anything. Or (insert race/sexual orientation/ideology/whatever) anything ( Read more... )

From Kate O'Beirne, Washington editor of the National Review:

And if we’re going to ask more of ourselves, my question is what poor excuse for a parent can’t rustle up a bowl of cereal and a banana? I just don’t get why millions of school children qualify for school breakfasts unless we have a major wide spread problem with child neglect ( Read more... )

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