Virtue signaling and other heresies : selected writings from Whatever 2013-2018 /
"For twenty years now--yes, twenty--John Scalzi has been writing on his blog Whatever, writing about, well, whatever: Politics, writing, cats, the internet and the great social and cultural events of our times. In that time he's gone from being just another crank online to being a bestsell...
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Burton, MI :
Subterranean Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.