Also, we need a word or phrase for people who claim opressed status for things that are not an example of being oppressed. People do this with Rosa Park’s good name quite often. What should we call it?
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Well… in the skeptic community, when a pseudoscientist complains about nobody believing them about their perpetual motion machine or whatever, they usually compare themselves to Galileo, as if that makes sense.
In the skeptic community we actually call that the “Galileo Gambit”.
Why not have the “Rosa Parks Gambit”? Or maybe the Monty Python Gambit (Help! Help! I’m being repressed!)
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Hmmm… Yes, maybe. Probably not the Monty Python gambit… that peasant WAS being repressed!
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Free Parking.
“help! Help! I’m being oppressed.”
“Fuck off. You’re just free-parking.”
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Only mildly. The Rosa Parks Gambit would nail it pretty well.
Or every time this comes up we could just say something nice and dismissive like “I hear cross polish has been getting really expensive these days. Maybe you should polish it less.” or “the way you’re lugging that cross around, you’d think maybe you’d have a stronger moral backbone.”
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Heliogabalus was “not just another 14 year old emperor”, be was also pretty well an utterly debauched libertine by most anyone’s standards. Young rulers usually have various minders and advisors to keep them in check, so their eccentricities tend to be mitigated.
Not only did Heliogabalus marry a man - and change the state religion, which is probably what got him killed - he also liked to dress up and offer himself as a prostitute. As well as probably engaging in beastiality. I don’t think it’s fair to say that this is normal 14 year old behavior. But, hey, I am open-minded!
You might be open minded, but you are prone to leaps of logic 
@kupfernigk pretty clearly did NOT say that that was ‘normal teenage behaviour’. What he(?) did say was that the outcome could probably have been expected from giving a 14 year old male completely unfettered access to the levers of power.
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Or as Tom Waits put, “Come down off that cross, we could use the wood.”
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Mind you, it’s also entirely possible that a lot of his exploits were exaggerated. We can be pretty confident that he did something to deeply piss off a lot of powerful people, but the Romans did have a tendency to blacken the names of people they hated after the fact.
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Yeah, it stands to reason that if you never say no to a kid his whole life, by the time puberty hits, he’s probably going to be allowed to exercise some kink.
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Correct; even on this website frequented by some people who are much more intelligent than I am, some people manage not to read to the end of a paragraph.
Also, on teh internetz, nobody knows if you are a dog.
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I probably wouldn’t call someone an asshole for bothering me with their belief system unlooked & unasked for. That doesn’t mean they aren’t an asshole or I won’t think of them that way. BTW, IMO the belief and/or behaviours that some people have, that everyone ought to listen to them prattle on about their religion or lack thereof without so much as a by your leave, is the belief and/or behaviour of an asshole.
Sorry if it offends any evangelicals or non-religious equivalent, but I’ve met hundreds and if you don’t ask, aren’t asked or aren’t easily and politely rebuffed, you’re an asshole.
This has changed dramatically in the last decade. I think that it’s because being “out” has become much safer these days, so more of those Christians are exposed to the fact that a loved one is gay. Once it’s your own flesh and blood who’s the villain, the villainy gains a sour taste.
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Almost certain in Heliogabalus case. One of the claims is that they had surgery to give themselves a vagina as well as their birth genitals (they weren’t castrated). I doubt that the Romans had the surgical techniques to successfully perform GRS, general anaesthesia and antiseptics being the key things missing.
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BB’ers who pray together stray together?
BB’ers who pray together soiree together?
BB’ers who pray together cabernet together?
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BB’ers who pray together Bray Together?
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Cray together?
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I’m out of likes… have a picard.
