Is it really just a poor choice of words?(Etymology topic)

What's so bad about Smosh?

Because I just found that website while searching for an side-splitting Tumblr post.

Eh. They're basically a comedy site, all the times that a comedian want to go against Tumblr, it usually ends up with the classic "stop being offended".

Well, that explains the marriage pizza with the side of an enraged vegan slathered with feminist dressing.

This is the thing. Stupid Left Wingers in Tumblr are fun anecdotes. Stupid and Evil Right Wingers are the norm. At least currently.

edited 9th Jun '18 4:48:00 PM by KazuyaProta

I wasn't talking about the image. What I was talking about was (emphasis yours):

I don't know what you think this looks like, but to me it comes off as invoking Think of the Children!, implying that gay characters are too racy to show in children's media.

And again, how overzealous Tumblr users act on said platform has no influence on or relevance to society at large. No one shot up the Oscars that year when all the nominees were white. No one threw a molotov inside a random establishment for not putting up an LGBT flag during pride month. Tumblr users being offended by everything is a boogeyman among the anti-PC crowd and a Dead Horse Trope among everyone else. The only people who still cling to this shit are those who think that "SJWs" are a thing.

edited 9th Jun '18 5:30:32 PM by PhysicalStamina

Tumblr does have some radicals but usually they are pretty harmless (barring some nasty incidents were some people on tumblr attacked folks over art). In regards to mental illnesses they are pretty harmless though for the most part.

My only issue that I have found with how tumblr treats mental illness is that some people on their act like suicidal ideation or cutting is totes fine.

@55 I mostly see LGBT romance in T-rated video games and it was mostly centered around teens and adults, so I assumed that stuff was suited for middle-schoolers. When it comes to Pokemon, the only things that sticks out to me is how the genderless mons reproduce and that one of them is an shapeshifter. But I never really paid no mind to it and the game barely scratches the issue of exactly what goes on to keep it aimed for kids, so why complain about it? I can see how lack of representation is an issue. But I doubt if the series will dramatically change without causing an backlash.

Representation matters because it help to normalize certain behaviors.

Is easier realize that minorities are like everyone else if you see them in fiction

edited 9th Jun '18 5:10:47 PM by KazuyaProta

The post Rabid linked to wasn't complaining about the lack of gay characters, but the lack of same-sex Pokemon breeding. I'm getting some serious Poe's Law vibes from it, to be honest. (Do Pokemon even have distinct sexes? I haven't really been paying attention to that franchise since the nineties.)

As others have pointed out though, this kind of thing doesn't seem terribly threatening.

I think some do, at least.

Regardless, it was the fact that he emphasized that Pokemon is a children's game that made me raise an eyebrow; it came off as if to say heterosexual breeding is fine for kids, but same-sex breeding? Not in this house.

Whatever he was really trying to convey, not a lot of thought was put into how that might come across.

Anyway, we're getting off-track here. My question now is, why are we giving random Tumblr users the time of day?

Because some people will look for any excuse to claim that "SJ Ws" are a real significant problem.

To Corvidae:

Yeah. Pokemon do have biological sexes. Male and Female. Not all of them, some are One-Gender Race while others are genderless.

It was added in Gen 2 (Gold and Silver. Johto region) but it was already implicit with the Nidoran line in Kanto.

I like the mechanic by the way. I'm not a breeder but I like having a diverse team with both Males and Females

Relevant because:

Tumblr User A blogs about taking his girlfriend out for an date and asks for advice on where to go.

Tumblr user B and C hands out input on which restaurant to go to.

Quality advice continues.

Someone eventually shows up and claims that the OP is being misogynistic or that eating meat guarantees an place in Hell while demanding that the OP should share their sentiment.

Cue "dafuq did I read" comments.

This thread: Someone is talking about an certain topic, everyone is ok with. Somebody jumps out of nowhere and claims X is offensive while demanding that they shouldn't talk about it. And hardly anyone agrees with them.

Seeing an pattern?

And now you're accusing Physical Stamina of being an SJW? Really?

Now who's the one trying to shut down a conversation?

This isn't even particularly relevant to the thread's topic. This has nothing to do with the ableist, racist, homophobic, etc. roots of common insults.

edited 9th Jun '18 6:03:02 PM by M84

Oh it's like that then? Aight.

1) I never said anything was "offensive". What I said was you wrote a poorly-worded post without thinking about how it sounded (so to answer the thread's question, yes, in this case). So take this L for strawmanning.

2) A grand total of like three people besides us two put their oar in. Two of them were on my side. That's a little more than "hardly anyone". So take another L since you wanna play that game.

Finally, at the end of the day, this Tumblr that dares to care about things like misogyny and related matters whose only flaw is maybe not going about it the right way and any others like them still do not have any impact on society no matter how much you wanna pretend this is an actual urgent problem that needs addressing. What you're doing is what most right-wingers do when their talking points are debunked: just repeating them in different ways because that's really all they have. So take that last L.

You do not want it with me on this, son.

edited 9th Jun '18 6:20:15 PM by PhysicalStamina

I wasn't really talking about any of you, I was talking about the incident that inspired this thread.

We should probably drop this before anyone gets wacked with the thump hammer

Speaking of word choices, the forum's favorite editorial site has an article on why journalists should stop using Trump's words (and instead describe him the way most of them did Hillary). ^{Full Article Text} Bold emphasis mine, italics from the original.

How ’bout “the weakest most pliable flaccid appeaser of bloody evil tyrants in the (approximately) English-speaking world since that Neville dude?”

The_Donald just made Singapore the new Munich.
(That will definitely be undermining tourism in the island-city-state)

With the addendum that at least Neville had an excuse to keep the diplomatic front.