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Wow even Captain Underpants is not safe from this woman’s wrath.

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No one is safe!

I mean, I have no idea if the writer is racist. Maybe he is! But maybe cite a source or something.

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My kid read Captain Underpants when he was little and I don’t recall any racism therein

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It was hiding in the underpants.

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Perhaps you're forgetting that some cultures do not wear underpants. Imagine the horror you would feel if, for example, you were a member of a remote bush tribe and missionaries brought you copies of Captain Underpants. Imagine the embarrassment, as the missionaries keep asking you why you're not laughing, and you simply can't explain that you just don't get the joke.

We simply cannot take such risks. The stakes are too high!

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Thank you Todd. I apologize and will henceforth try to do better.

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It's okay. It happens.

Fortunately, there are middle-aged white guys like me to help explain this stuff to people. Imagine if we weren't here to mansplai-- I mean, EXplain everything to everyone!

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I am terribly afraid that Aaliyah is absolutely serious, but it is much more fun to imagine that she is cynically exploiting Twitter outrage to become more famous and promote her work. And that’s a huge problem with so many industries now: in addition to the regular job we’re interested in and good at, we have to engage in self-promotion in order to succeed. I prefer you as you are, for the record, and I would notice if you stopped publishing, Ed!

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We live in the "worst kind of cyberpunk reality" because we got all the shitty parts of cyberpunk with none of the cool stuff.

Where the hell are my self-driving cars that can fly, and my full-immersion VR chamber so I can escape all the crap Amazon is burying me under?

Also, it can be cool to have an author headshot... you just need to handle it like Pierce Brown (read his description)

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6474348.Pierce_Brown?from_search=true&from_srp=true

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Ha! Thats pretty good!

How are his books? Seems like a lot of people really love them. Whenever I see them, though, I just think, "This is the Hunger Games for boys." And I don't even know if that's true!

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I really enjoyed them. I mean, they're not incredibly deep. I would say they're on the same level as the Hunger Games in terms of depth, but they're definitely a different story. They hooked me pretty hard, and they have some solid twists, which is really nice.

They don't deserve the express elevator to the top of your reading queue, but they definitely deserve to be in the pile.

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That's such a good image there!

I love it.

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Consider me uncaring and gone!

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You can't quit me

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