Eddie Pensier writes:
- Don’t call homosexuals “homosexual”: it’s offensive.
- Don’t call in-ear sound amplifiers “hearing aids”: it’s misleading.
- Don’t call someone a sexist: it’ll soon be illegal in Belgium.
- Don’t call or email your civic leaders to complain about laws you don’t like: they’ll threaten to sue you.
- Don’t discriminate against a medical student who has borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, and a “crippling” fear of exams so severe it took her eight years to finish a three-year degree: it’ll land you in front of a tribunal….and you’ll lose.
- Don’t try to teach a college course at UCSB which contains disturbing historical facts: you’ll need to post a “trigger warning”.
- Don’t call our pornographic Tumblr disgusting, depraved and obscene: we already know.
- In fact, don’t say anything at all. Just shut up, you privileged ignorant clod.

So, are you the only one blogging here anymore?
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Things have been busy at work and I’m watching season 6 of MAD MEN.
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Ahh, Hendricks Boobs. Someone has a fine sense of priorities.
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Interesting phenomenon that I cannot see a single positive thing in. The “sticks and stones” doctrine is way more important than any of these candy-ass prohibitions. We shouldn’t laugh, really, because these assholes will hang us with all due speed if given half a chance.
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I think the core sentiment behind some of this stuff is reasonable, even if that sentiment is itself artlessly/slackly expressed. Some general guidelines that seem sensible here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c104:S.RES.264.IS
-PFF
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