Nearly every entry I ever read on s_d in the past few years was a bunch of spoiler pages completely removed from context while a 300+ post comment thread of people who had never read the actual issue whined and ranted about how whoever wrote that scene was an incredibly horrible homophobic misogynist and this issue was the worst and most disrespectful thing to ever happen to the character in question. Any efforts to provide context for the scene were either shouted down or completely ignored so as not to get in the way of the daily two minute hate.
I’m sure it may have been a fun place for discussion when it started out, but by the end it had devolved into one of the worst, most insular parts of comic discourse on the internet.
INSULAR. Now if that isn't a code word for FEMALE, I don't know what is! Our readings are INSULAR! They refuse CONTEXT! I really nearly spit with anger: how dare we ignore their context!!!
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from: http://www.nerderyblog.com/2009/03/02/livejournal-nukes-scans_daily/
INSULAR. Now if that isn't a code word for FEMALE, I don't know what is! Our readings are INSULAR! They refuse CONTEXT! I really nearly spit with anger: how dare we ignore their context!!!