“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”

— The Dalai Lama, The Seattle Times, May 15, 2001

Stop Words


That is, “when you hear these words, you know it’s safe to stop taking someone seriously”. In no particular order:

  • Cis
  • Male Gaze
  • Intersectional
  • Misgendering
  • (qualifier) Justice
  • Gender Binary
  • Cultural Appropriation
  • Woke
  • Mansplaining
  • Misogyny
  • Heteropatriarchy
  • Diversity
  • Rape Culture
  • Zionist
  • Manspreading
  • (whatever) Is A Social Construct
  • Whitewashing
  • Triggering
  • (made-up personal pronoun)
  • Privilege
  • (whatever) Denier
  • Disparate Impact
  • Heteronormative
  • Patriarchy
  • Fascist
  • Structural (whatever)
  • Homophobia
  • Inclusive
  • Gender Identity
  • Nazi
  • Transphobia

What did I leave out?

(note that it is possible to use some of these words and phrases in a way that is not meaningless blather, but that’s not the way to bet)

Updates

  • Sustainable
  • Organic
  • Vegan
  • Fair Trade
  • GMO-Free
  • Gluten-Free
  • (insert latest virtue-signaling buzzword here)
  • Agency
  • Problematic
  • No True Scotsman (fallacy most often committed by people who are accusing others of committing it…)
  • Ally
  • (whatever) Traitor
  • Toxic (whatever)
  • Voting Against Their Interests (which always means “voting against my interests”)
  • The Right/Wrong Side Of History

How could I have forgotten?!?

  • Dogwhistle

…and from the reliably-fucked-up virtue-signalers at boingboing

  • Heterosexism
  • Chauvinist

(linking to an article on an “SF” site that must come with a built-in fainting couch; seriously, the brief excerpt starts with this hilariously nonsensical statement: “the heterosexism goggles, which derange content via chauvinist interpretive paradigms”)

I got nuthin'...


…so here’s a nice pair of melons.

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Curry Udon target practice


I need to order these for me and my sister, for our next trip to Japan…

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"Points all her own..."


“​…sittin’ way up high”

Never mind the general babehood and the token mod-black-chick amazon in the background, check out the uplifting fashions our heroes and their captor are sporting. Paradise Island’s lingerie shops clearly feature Sufficiently Advanced Technology, enough so that I wonder if the Invisible Plane was just a spinoff product.

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Cheesecake Champloo 4


A lot of the pictures that accumulate in the leftovers folder after I do a theme search on Gelbooru are rejected for facial expressions, excessively complex backgrounds, or not really being cheesecake. In general, I bias the posts toward “happy-sexy anime-style girls with simple backgrounds”, but that doesn’t mean the others aren’t any good…

more...

Hey, at least they're not Peeps...


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Grooming An American Loli


“​…and this week Doc is playing with Julie, Gopher is playing with Vicki, and Isaac’s got a big surprise for Captain Stubing!”

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Winnie hits puberty...


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