[snowwrestler]

> It blows my mind that even The Simpsons has become a target of gender bias accusations.

Yes, that is the point of these sorts of conversations: to blow your mind. That's where bias lives.

[antonyrn]

Oh, how I anticipated this pithy retort. Did it ever occur to anyone that fomenting polarization might be a bad thing?

Isolation on all sides is really all that's derived from exercises like this. Pointless braying on and on. Have fun with that.

[snowwrestler]

The whole point of studies like this is to show that this not a new issue, it's been happening all along. The only reason it feels like "fomenting" to you is that you didn't notice it, and now that you do, you realize you liked it that way.

> Isolation on all sides is really all that's derived from exercises like this.

Helping fellow humans participate more fully in society is the opposite of isolation.

[linksnapzz]

"Two! Four! Six! Eight! Homer's crime was very great!"

"Great, meaning large or immense!"

"We use it in the pejorative sense!"

Not only has it been happening for years, Simpsons writers have already mined the comic self-seriousness of self-appointed "helpers" who think it's a problem...