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Culture War Roundup for the week of April 24, 2023

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Someone hasn't seen The Sims 4 modding, it's run by women for women (and trains too of course)

???

What part are you incredulous about? The fact that the majority of modders there are women, or that a significant fraction are trans?

That it has any relevance to what I wrote.

Uh.. You just made a big statement about how modding is a male phenomena, while I am in complete agreement that it's majority male overall, the Sims is a big franchise that has an overwhelmingly female modding base.

It's a knock against your grand theory, which isn't to say that you're wrong overall, just overstating the point.

You just made a big statement about how modding is a male phenomena

No I didn't.

That a significant number of Sims players are trains, of course.

(I’ll show myself out)

Just in case you're out of the loop, people often use "trains" as a way to refer to trans people in contexts where they dont want to draw the Eye of Sauron for saying anything negative about them. More on Reddit, given how the jannies act.

I was definitely out of the loop. Thanks for the heads up.

That would be the exception that proves the rule I'd say.

Same way I'd be pretty confident in guessing that warhammer fanfiction is primarily written by and for men.

You've managed to trigger one of my pet peeves with that phrase haha

Exceptions don't prove the rule, quite literally the opposite, at least in the sense that 99.99% of people use it. Think about it, how does evidence against a hypothesis strengthen it?

I looked up the origins of the phrase, and it's been hopelessly mutated, originally it was used along the lines of:

Imagine you visit a hospital and see a sign saying "visitations allowed between 4-6pm". In that case, this 'exception' proves that there's a rule that visitations aren't allowed outside this window.

Nobody uses it in that sense anymore, and it should be taken behind a shed and shot.

Pedants of the world unite! We have nothing to lose except our chains, which we can then use on others haha

You know, I actually looked up the meaning of the phrase because I was also sure it was gibberish, saw that it was gibberish and decided to use it anyway.

It seems that I'm actually just an evil man.

May your pillows always be slightly warm and moist no matter how many times you turn them 🙏