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Lot of people more annoyed that language is a living, changing thing than the predatory nature of in game purchases (but we all knew the latter already, so this isn't gonna be news to us).

Yes, I'm sure that Fox News explains the endurance Joseph Smith's religion.

Please be performance art...

It certainly sold itself as feminist and forward thinking, but the conservatism of USociety certainly took control of the scripts early on.

Or ended up as a priest caste, or a third gender, or were accepted as the gender they expressed in some non-European parts of the world.

Or maybe both?

As was detailed by someone else the Doylian reason why heroes don't change the status quo is that people want to see our world in media, not a fantasy one and that this means only villains are allowed to want changes, but since the people funding the production of media tend to be invested in the status quo status quo changing ideas tend to be flanderised and done by people who do evil and selfish acts to reinforce standard morality.

I thought he gave some villain speech about getting his gang and people like them what they deserved and bringing down Stark and Co. But I could well be mistaken or misremembering since I only saw it once, quite some time ago so you may very well be right.

I dunno, I think making things like this is Clowes' lifeline. He makes comics about how dirty and self hating he is to keep himself going.

So I reckon it's no waste of time and reduced global suffering and pain.

Congratulations, you're now at level 2 of the joke.

Legit though Clowes' work is all about self-loathing and feeling dirty. It's not easy or pleasant.

Off the top of my head the villain in one of the Iron Man films was opposed to US war crimes and imperialism, New New Spider Man 1 had the Vulture as a villain whose deal was Stark and the wealthy were screwing people over.

In Batman Begins 3 Bane is a pastiche of anarchism/anti-capital ideas until revealed that that's a play by Talia.

Well intentioned extremist is a pretty common villain trope in general.

Which sports are popular and have the support to be more economically viable?

Of them, how far away from the top seeds do you get before it can no longer be done professionally?

If unisex (I know, it's a bizzare word) sports leagues were how it was done, do you think more or less women (including trans-women) would be able to be professional athletes?

Qi, for a handy way to use a Q and not open up more space.