Virtue signaling and other heresies : selected writings from Whatever 2013-2018
Oh, hey, it's time for another one of those author introductions -- Standard responses to online stupidity -- About that march -- Activism, and whether I do it -- Adulthood and what being a friend means now -- The aftermess -- Always and never -- An anti-feminist walks into a bar: a play in five acts -- And now, a small example of what a generation gap looks like -- Apologies: what, when and how -- Art and entertainment and Neil DeGrasse Tyson -- Batman v Superman, and its reviews -- A book sale at the cost of your conscience -- Born that way, or not -- Boycotts, creators and me -- A brief phone text conversation between me and my daughter -- But doctor, I am Pagliacci -- The Cinemax theory of racism -- Dear GOP: we can't save you if you won't save yourself -- Disorganized thoughts on free speech, Charlie Hebdo, religion and death -- Dylann Roof and the denial of racism -- Eight things about Donald Trump -- 18 -- Enjoying problematic things -- Facebook and your friends -- Free speech or not -- The four levels of discrimination (and you) (and me, too) -- Frightened, ignorant and cowardly is no way to go through life, son -- Genius and master -- Getting lucky with college costs -- Ghlaghghee 2003-2015 -- Trump, the GOP, and the fall -- The greatest of all time -- Guilt, mine, and paying it forward, me -- Guilty pleasures -- Hamilton, and thoughts on the Uncanny Valley of musicals -- Harry Potter and the initially dismissive but ultimately appreciative fan -- Harvey Weinstein and other abusers -- Henry Rollins shows his ass, gets told, owns it -- Here's a quarter -- Hillary Clinton, considered in herself -- How I knew I'd made it -- How not to talk about your money, very rich edition -- In which I rank the months, because why not -- Incels and other misogynists -- In which I select a current GOP presidential candidate to vote for, 2015 edition -- It's over, Bernie Sanders fans. Let it go -- Jaqueline Kahn -- Jian Ghomeshi and the women he knew -- John Boehner's stepping down -- Trump, and his jokes, and you -- Loathing is a strong word to apply to one's self -- Me and Republicans -- Meet Keith Johnson -- The moral shambles that is our president -- Mortality -- My day in a wheelchair -- My endorsement for president, 2016: Hillary Clinton -- My non-spoilery review of The force awakens -- My personal feminism -- The new year and the bend of the arc -- Off with their comments -- Oliver Sacks and public individuals at the close -- On being an egotistical jackass -- On the matter of empathy for horrible people -- The 1% of problems -- People are the problem and they pretty much always will be -- A personal history of libraries -- Police and me and Philando Castile -- The poverty "state of mind" -- Pronouns -- Punching Nazis -- A Q & A for the post-Weinstein era -- Tump is a racist. Stop pretending otherwise -- Raising strong women -- The reputational reset, or not -- A season in the show -- A short review of Ghostbusters and a longer pummel of manboys -- Some musings on Avengers: infinity war -- Speech, conversation, debate, engagement, communication -- Steubenville and CNN and the rest -- Suddenly, nostalgia -- That New York magazine cover -- There shall your heart be also -- These are a few of my favorite things, on tiers -- A thing not to do when you're smart -- This new America -- Thoughts and prayers -- Thoughts on A wrinkle in time -- 20 years -- 2017, word counts and writing process -- The University of Chicago, trigger warnings and safe spaces -- Utopias -- The ways the Scalzi women are better than me: an incomplete list -- Weinstein, Ratner, Toback, etc -- Who's cool and who's not -- Why the ACA matters to me -- Why I didn't go to Bennington College -- Why I don't drink or use drugs -- Why my wife is amazing, part 73,592 -- Will humans survive? -- Women and geekdom -- Wonder Woman: a smash, possibly in different ways than you think -- It's all beautiful and nothing lasts.
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