Recent content by Michael Kirley

I'm not arguing that it should be made a public event (although a person is well within their rights to explain to anyone they want why they're no longer in a relationship). I'm simply pointing out that cheating is fundamentally deceptive.

No, it wouldn't imply that at all. Breaking a promise isn't very far removed from telling a blatant falsehood. The deception is that the cheating partner promised the other partner that they wouldn't cheat. "Impulsive" decisions hardly abrogate one's free will (supposing there isn't any foul...

If someone deceives you and cheats on you (hence lying about their agreement with the presumably monogamist pretense of the relationship) they are certainly a liar.

I'm still waiting for someone to actually make an argument rather than hide behind "oh it was just a harmless question!" Yeah, it was a question. The answer to it is the same answer to the question of why Martin decided to write at all or why he named Cersei Cersei instead of Cyrsei: he just...

Simple: there is absolutely no reason for GRRM to add or remove POC characters from his books. Diversity is not an obligation in a fictional world. It's not something that can be or should be demanded.

Everything above this seems mostly settled. It's not exclusive to just SJWs, obviously. But I don't think your criticism was valid to begin with. My claim is that a significant number of SJWs actually do believe the things I'm telling you. That's because SJWs clearly do believe these things...

You still don't seem to understand what I'm arguing. Except that's NOT what I'm arguing. I'm not criticizing SJWs because they are ignoring "bigger problems." I'm criticizing them for using a respectable social movement (i.e. social justice) as a legitimizer for all sorts of views that have...

Not at all. SJWs hijack the cause of social justice to pontificate about things that have nothing to do with real struggles. They piggyback off of legitimate movements to make themselves relevant. You've misunderstood my argument. I've seen this argument before and your completely...

SJWs don't get along with anyone. It's not that "gamers" are uniquely disagreeable and that they just can't get along with SJWs, or something; it's that SJWs practically define themselves by finding "problematic" things everywhere, which makes them a grating bunch to associate with. Authentic...

"Truscum" is a pejorative term used to describe transgender individuals who believe that gender dysphoria is a defining/necessary characteristic of transgenderism. This belief exists primarily to rule out Tumblr hipsters, aptly named "transtrenders," from calling themselves trans because they're...

No, but they should stop screaming and start engaging in rational discourse. See, the thing about "check your privilege" or any other kind of cheeky SJW phrase is that they're all basically condescending phrases designed to halt the discussion and/or distract from actually getting down to the...

Lots of people bat an eye at that, but the issue here is that these people have a tendency to move from the general to the individual. While it may or may not be a problem for most protagonists to have some characteristic or another, that's a critique of the landscape of the medium; it's not a...

The problem is that it's not arbitrary at all to change art for no other reason than to satisfy some lame social agenda. When artists justify their work by saying they "felt like it," what they really mean is that that's the way the artistic vision came to them and that that's the form the end...

'Eh. This is a pretty irrelevant argument. I'm not sure why we'd really waste time evaluating the random distribution of regenerations. Suspension of disbelief, and whatnot. Depends on how you look at it. I think that it would probably come across as pandering (because that's what it is) to...