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I started seeing less wincing when "Q" joined LGBT. I just use "queer" to avoid the alphabet soup.

i was chastised by a professor in 2006 for describing something as queer in joyce's ulysses in a lit class

"Queer" is so commonplace within academia (at least now, and at least in some departments) that I often forget, when teaching first-years, that most of them probably only know it as a slur, so there's always that moment of discomfort the first time I use it in class.

That said, I don't think that it would have ever occurred to me to use "queer" if I wasn't familiar with Queer Theory (as it is still called).

queer theory is definitely a cool term. try saying it ten times fast though.

would love a quare fellowship

My workplace does health work with sex worker organisations, and i'm not comfortable with using the word 'whore' instead of 'sex worker' or 'prostitute', even though it is many's preferred self-description, because it sound as though i'm trying to be colossally offensive

imo it's a self-description that maybe peers are cool using but it feels very much like in-group nomenclature

Yeah, very true

i like Jason Schwartzman

that doesn't seem too controversial!

you need to add another word in there, like 'torturing'

...in bed

yeah, i guess it's true! i remember back in the day when 'jason schwartzman' became a pair of words that more than a few dozen people recognized, the general consensus among friends and acquaintances was that he kind of sucked. but you know what, that guy's alright. plus he's starring in dash shaw's new film so i'm primed to cheer for him.

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I like Zack Braff

trailer for new ZB film looked not too bad

well as not-bad as any bank-robbery-but-they're-social-crusaders comedy can be

James Corden doesn't really bother me.

GET OUT

To be honest I've never seen much of his work, just guest appearances on panel shows and stuff like that, he mainly just laughs. Didn't like The History Boys much but that wasn't really much to do with Corden.

Well done, that is a genuinely controversial opinion.

Jared Kushner is hot.

his brother joshua is hotter

that's not controversial. everyone has at some pt digressed from a Trump trashing convo to "....ok that Ivanka tho"

I didn't write Ivanka though

ivanka and jared both unambiguously good looking

^ trophy moms

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/12/26/16/3BA4148D00000578-0-image-m-50_1482770986469.jpg

Like a baby's leg trevor

Hmm. He's cute in a dime-a-dozen way.

he's cute in a flip-a-dime-off-his-abs way.

Ivanka looks like her father

Yeah, was mostly thinking I was jealous of those abs.

(xpost, obvs)

Young donald is p handsome

for a cross between barry pepper and donald moffat i guess he wasn't so bad

The two traps about posting here are 1) if you do, it's like you're patting yourself on the back--"Look at me, I have a controversial opinion," and 2) no one's going to post anything actually controversial, because who needs the grief of people getting angry at you. Really, all you can do is post a not-actually-controversial opinion--about a celebrity, about a movie--where the great majority of people disagree with you.

Along those lines, except for Catherine Keener and Betty Gabriel, there was very little I liked about Get Out.

the real controversial opinions were the friends we made along the way

Hmm. He's cute in a dime-a-dozen way.

― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Wednesday, April 5, 2017 7:07 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's cute in a flip-a-dime-off-his-abs way.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, April 5, 2017 7:08 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha <3 alfred

To Pimp a Butterfly wasn't that good

a dime, is that all you're paying him?

abs, bleh

Controversial opinions you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here?

Looking at the development the last five years, it's getting clearer and clearer that the West should have bombed Syria in 2013.

Do you have a detailed plan for how that would have worked and what the consequences would have been?

No, but I'm assuming things hasn't turned out according to your plan either, so that point is moot.

possibly the "let's bomb shit" plan has to reach a higher standard of theoretical efficacy than the "let's not" plan

Even so, at this point the 'let's not' plan has gone so catastrophically wrong, that it's moot as well.

I'm just wondering how ballsy a controversial opinion is being proposed.

"Syria would be better off if Assad had been forced from power even if it meant ISIS and Al Qaeda taking over a much larger portion of the country" would be a bold one I'd be interested in hearing defended. "Open conflict with Iran and Hezbollah (and possibly Russia) would be a price worth paying for attempting regime change" would be another. Even "I trust the US to get it right in Syria despite the catastrophic failure to plan for consequences in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya" would be good. I'm not even saying they're wrong so it'd be interesting to hear them thought through in detail.

"In retrospect, something should have been bombed"(what? where? to what end?) is both meaningless on its own and not particularly controversial if it can apparently unite Clinton, Rubio, latter day Trump, CNN, MSNBC.

All that is just counterfactuals. I'm saying it was worth the risk of regime change, of regional war, of whatever, because we did the opposite and it has failed disastrously, and whatever would have happened it would have been handled by Obama instead of Trump.

^^^literal garbage from the biggest fool on ilx

^^^he posted controversially

was gonna say, "leaving Trump to step up to the plate in the middle of open conflict in the whole region"