Almost everything is correct, because not everyone is as way into boxing as Billy Joel. He mentions multiple boxers in the song.

I mean I’m not shocked, he was a boxer himself before he became a professional musician, but it’s still funny he apparently thought everyone else was as into boxing as he was and so those names would resonate as much as Liberace’s or Satayana’s.

It’s so weird. I am cis male and I have never felt like I was anything but a man, but I do not buy into any of this macho bullshit and I never have. I have never felt the need to prove that I’m the biggest and the strongest and the roughest and toughest. I like reading and classic cinema and playing word games and stuff, nothing “manly.” I don’t feel like less of a man because I never played football or even roughoused as a kid, never went hunting or even shot a gun, could not give less of a shit about sports in general, and I don’t even lift bro.

I could not give less of a shit about “masculine energy.” I’m secure enough in my gender identity that I don’t need it.

And it makes me wonder why Zuckerberg things he does.

I have said this many times before and, unfortunately, I’ll probably end up saying it many times in the future: It should not be legal anywhere to have more money than you can spend in a human lifetime.

Oh wow, I haven’t thought about Wonkette in years! Glad they’re still around. I’ll have to check them out again. Thanks for bringing them up!

How does it harm your child in any way to see book covers about gender topics?

Also, never, ever take them into a bookstore if that sort of thing is too damaging for them. They might see something like this and be immediately corrupted! They put them right there out in the open on display!

I don’t know what to say other than it works when I see it.

Edit: I think I fixed the problem?

It was fucked up, but within the context of the comic, it was fucked up because a horrific and insane person was doing it.

Now it turns out, Gaiman was also doing it. But he didn’t need magic powers because he had real power.

I don’t think they do respect me actually. But it’s also clear they’re not going to bother to back up what they say beyond “trust me, bro,” so I guess I have nothing else to say to them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence

Hope these help.

I read an anecdote where Lovecraft went on some sort of antisemitic rant only to be gently reminded by his wife who he married. I guess he was an equal opportunity bigot.

It starts with the non-citizen kids. Then the queer kids get put into conversion therapy camps.

Shows up for me there too. 🤷

This has been a very long-standing policy of theirs going back to when they were a little company in Seattle.

But capitalism takes away any possible benevolence.

What do you mean? There is an image.

Well for example, all of the sexual (and other) violence in the 24-Hour Diner part of The Sandman takes on a very different connotation now. Because now I know he’s responsible for such things. He was writing from experience.

I speak only in great truths.

One of those truths is that two string quartets have thought it was a good idea to cover that song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djULDN0aubM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD9BaPsHwEc

The correct number, incidentally, is zero string quartets.

I’m sure it was just a recording, but I was terrified of the idea that you could pick up a phone and talk to Ronald. And I wasn’t a kid who was afraid of clowns or anything.

It doesn’t help that it looks creepy as fuck.