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You (deliberately contrarian for the sake of it?)dickhead. The character already was a tomboy (or rather, a female wanting to control her own outcomes in life).

Normally I try not to insult people, and just attack their argument, but sometimes it's just really justified.

Edited: To insert "deliberately contrarian", to specify the behaviour prompting the insult. It's not the person, it's the action. All happy now? :)

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It's actually not justified. There's always a way to let someone know that they are wrong without resorting to childish name-calling.

Hell, I'm autistic and even I know that.

Ah, I suspect you have learned a set of social rules that allow you to function in society despite your autism, and one such rule is "don't insult people".

I applaud your efforts and I nonetheless disagree. Sometimes, it's justified.

It makes good discussion less likely. Please don't do it.

The initial poster made "good discussion" impossible with that post.

Yes. But insulting him makes it worse. It's toxic, and adds to the noise.

Agreed. But where there's so little signal to the noise, there's generally not going to be much to debate, just heckling back and forth :p

I don't agree in this case, because OP is setting up a false premise: if you are opposed to corporate makeover, you're "manipulating girls to be tomboys" which is patently ridiculous. OP is in fact a dickhead this time.

Huh. I read the parent comment significantly different then you did. I thought he was saying that people shouldn't try to get real, living and breathing girls to be tomboys. If they want to be tomboy, that's cool. If they want to be a princess, that's cool too.

I don't think he was talking about manipulating the character, but rather manipulating the young, impressionable girls watching said character.

Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know.

I'm suspecting that the comment you replied to was trolling. Something so outrageous and contrarian-for-the-sake of it doesn't really need a response.

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