Why ponder life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

I wrote something like this to derspatchel earlier. Dave Truesdale. Petition. SFWA.

I used to read Tangent Online. It was one of the few venues that reviewed small press magazines, meaning I could actually find my work mentioned. Gradually it drifted off my radar; for a few years I wasn't even sure if it was still publishing; when it became visible again, it was no longer reviewing anything but SFWA-pro markets. I found myself increasingly uninterested in the reviews. I was more interested in following other markets.

The reason for the change in policy was just made clear to me. A moment's Googling found me Truesdale's own explanation from 2010. At this very moment, right at the top of the Tangent homepage, I can find Truesdale's petition, as if an attempt to preserve institutional discrimination is just another objective review. So I suppose I don't feel very bad about no longer being of critical interest to him, but I am really, really tired of this issue still existing. It is not a matter of political correctness—as if inclusivity were some toe-the-line courtesy—to acknowledge and encourage and celebrate the existence and contributions of other kinds of people than oneself. It's not an issue of free speech. All this comes down to is people crying censorship! when what they mean is I can't hurt other people with impunity anymore! And that is something everyone with pretensions to sentience should have gotten over by the time they're five years old. No, you may not push that other kid over and take their blocks. No, you may not bite the kid who disagrees with you. No, it is not all right for you to attack the teacher when they curtail your bad behavior. And for God's sake, five-year-olds are anarchic. No one should still be having these arguments in middle age.