Fan fiction and copyright

Shouldn't some fan fiction be legally publishable as satire? Would the characters' names need to be different from those in the original work?

Fan fiction and copyright

Shouldn't some fan fiction be legally publishable as satire? Would the characters' names need to be different from those in the original work?

When did bullying become an ideology?

In a comment to this fromozarque, I said

This relates to something I've been trying to put a finger on--there's been a fairly recent ideologization of verbal bullying, a belief that people should be tough enough to ignore insults, and if they don't like being insulted, it's a personal defect. [1] Stoicism has been around for a long time, but I don't think it used to be invoked by people who are proudly unwilling to control their own cruelty.

[1] There's a contradiction there--if people really could ignore insults, there'd be no point in insulting them.

For more about the right to react when you've been insulted, see this fromshadesong.

When did bullying become an ideology?

In a comment to this fromozarque, I said

This relates to something I've been trying to put a finger on--there's been a fairly recent ideologization of verbal bullying, a belief that people should be tough enough to ignore insults, and if they don't like being insulted, it's a personal defect. [1] Stoicism has been around for a long time, but I don't think it used to be invoked by people who are proudly unwilling to control their own cruelty.

[1] There's a contradiction there--if people really could ignore insults, there'd be no point in insulting them.

For more about the right to react when you've been insulted, see this fromshadesong.