I can't help but think a children's series is the perfect venue for such a protest.
Tom Send a noteboard - 26/06/2017 07:45:47 PM
The more juvenile something becomes, the more facile the juxtaposition between good and evil (hence the Left's problems with Trump 
). The more facile the juxtaposition, the more obvious the statement becomes.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
What the hell is with people's fondness for Slytherin?
- 26/06/2017 09:48:07 AM
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Contrarian & deconstructionist fashions
- 26/06/2017 11:13:55 AM
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I think it's more because people are rejecting facile black-and-white depictions of the world.
- 26/06/2017 02:27:21 PM
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I can't help but think a children's series is the wrong venue for this sort of protest.
- 26/06/2017 05:52:52 PM
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I can't help but think a children's series is the perfect venue for such a protest.
- 26/06/2017 07:45:47 PM
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Maybe there's also room for different takes on morality in children's books? 
- 26/06/2017 07:58:21 PM
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- 26/06/2017 07:58:21 PM
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I mean, I tend towards black and white morality as a general principle, so...
- 27/06/2017 12:46:53 AM
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- 27/06/2017 12:46:53 AM
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How is Gondor theocratic? I think I missed something *NM*
- 26/06/2017 05:45:55 PM
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Appendix J to the Return of the King is essentially just religious laws of Gondor.
- 26/06/2017 07:49:08 PM
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I remember the first time reading those appendices at the end of The Return of the King
- 26/06/2017 08:09:18 PM
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I recall that one. Very bittersweet. As is most of the end of the trilogy. *NM*
- 27/06/2017 12:43:16 AM
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I didn't say it was, I said that people like coming up with nonsense like that *NM*
- 27/06/2017 11:05:58 AM
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I got placed into Slytherin at Pottermore back in the day.
- 26/06/2017 01:30:13 PM
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Re: I got placed into Slytherin at Pottermore back in the day.
- 26/06/2017 05:43:34 PM
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Your replies do show a large streak of Slytherinesque views. I think you were mishoused.
- 26/06/2017 06:06:09 PM
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Nah. I have vague glimmerings of a conscience. Disqualifying trait for House Sociopath. 
*NM*
- 26/06/2017 06:08:44 PM
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*NM*
- 26/06/2017 06:08:44 PM
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Yet you're studying for the bar so you can join Profession Sociopath.
- 26/06/2017 07:56:47 PM
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Ugh. Don't remind me. *NM*
- 26/06/2017 07:58:03 PM
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Meanwhile future "sociopath"
- 28/06/2017 12:20:27 PM
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I'm going into public defense. Don't be too proud of yourself.
- 28/06/2017 08:31:04 PM
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- 28/06/2017 08:31:04 PM
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Just a self-righteous and masochistic form of sociopath. *NM*
- 28/06/2017 10:05:18 PM
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How many years, do you guess, as a PDA before he bails for the bucks?
- 28/06/2017 11:13:43 PM
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I went to law school specifically to be a public defender. Bailing is unlikely.
- 29/06/2017 12:19:42 AM
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You are an American, bail---ing is part of our judicial system
- 29/06/2017 02:45:05 AM
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I thought about making that pun but demurred.
- 29/06/2017 03:22:46 AM
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- 29/06/2017 03:22:46 AM
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Well we slytherin folk we have our own role models in regards to humor
- 29/06/2017 04:50:58 AM
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Well we slytherin folk we have our own role models in regards to humor
- 29/06/2017 04:50:58 AM
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The Practice aired what 8 seasons, 7 with Bobby, only to be replaced with the much better show
- 29/06/2017 02:42:07 AM
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I re-watched the eight HP movies a while back.
- 26/06/2017 07:38:39 PM
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You think "Eyebrows" Watson improved the films? Yeesh. *NM*
- 27/06/2017 01:59:55 AM
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*NM*
- 27/06/2017 01:59:55 AM
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What do her eyebrows have to do with anything? And yes, I do. *NM*
- 27/06/2017 06:13:20 AM
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They comprise about 98% of what passes for her acting ability.
- 27/06/2017 06:14:31 AM
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Nonsense. She does a great job - at least in those movies, haven't seen her in anything else.
- 27/06/2017 06:20:26 AM
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Hasn't BEEN in anything else. That anyone else saw, anyway.
- 27/06/2017 03:18:48 PM
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Pretty sure that a lot of people saw her in Beauty & The Beast
- 27/06/2017 03:26:29 PM
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In which, incidentally, she could neither act nor sing. *NM*
- 28/06/2017 03:13:32 AM
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That's not the point. The point is she was seen in a film that garnered over $1billion. *NM*
- 28/06/2017 12:18:14 PM
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The point is she hasn't been in anything that would support a positive assessment of her ability
- 01/07/2017 02:56:26 PM
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One of the rather few things in the series that I'd say Rowling got wrong...
- 26/06/2017 07:32:43 PM
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As a fellow "Never Slytherin"...
- 27/06/2017 12:22:17 AM
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Anti-hype?
- 27/06/2017 10:35:22 AM
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Stop it, you are meant to enjoy the books not analyze them to death.
- 28/06/2017 01:40:41 AM
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I don't watch anime. RWBY is safe. *NM*
- 28/06/2017 03:12:56 AM
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Hun, that product is made in America it is not Anime
- 28/06/2017 03:17:45 AM
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- 28/06/2017 03:17:45 AM
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That's anime. I don't watch anime or its derivatives. But if you want me to criticize it... *NM*
- 28/06/2017 03:23:01 AM
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Enjoyment =/= thinking about, or having feelings toward, something. Good to know
- 01/07/2017 02:57:42 PM
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