To my peers ( Read more... )

Dear Chinese man,

Please stop telling me that Obama is a Muslim because his middle name is Hussein. Because I am about this (||) close to pointing out that you, a Chinese man, named your Chinese son Johann. Do you want me to start accusing your infant son of being a Nazi because you gave him a German name?

No love,
me

( Dear world, wtf? )

Another bit of musing sparked by fandom, this time on the giving of constructive criticism.

I find it most apparent in fandom, but it also applies to real life, that most people simply don't know how to give constructive criticism. They think that by tacking the phrases "no offense" or "This is just constructive criticism," what they say is ( Read more... )

That level of attractiveness should be illegal.