Three Wise Men in a Bed: Bedsharing and Sexuality in Medieval Europe (2014)

Re:Three Wise Men in a Bed: Bedsharing and Sexuality in Medi... by mcv on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @04:57AM (#10002293)

My impression is that some people fighting for real social justice are in the process of owning this. I get that GamerGaters and MRAs mean it as an insult, but it sounds like using "good person" as an insult. It literally means "someone who fights for social justice". In what way is that possibly a negative thing? Using it as an insult sounds like you're unapologetically against justice, and basically admit to being a bad person.

(I'm aware that there are people who claim to be fighting for social justice but are in reality weaponizing other people's struggles as ammo in their own private feuds. This is unfortunately a thing, but the right way to handle that is to recognize that they are not really SJWs, not to accept SJW as a bad thing.)

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Re:Three Wise Men in a Bed: Bedsharing and Sexuality in Medi... by hyperpape on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @09:35AM (#10003259)

I agree with the part about how some people may not be bothered by the label.

Still, I think the point of it is like calling someone a "morality crusader". Morality is good (if you don't mean "hating gays" by morality, mind you), but if someone called me a morality crusader, I'd get that they thought I was pompous, self-important and meddling in other people's business.

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