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Gearslutz Has Decided to Change Its Name

@Mike Greene I appreciate your work to engage thoughtfully and manage conversation as well as possible, while being open to criticism. It's something that we've talked about a lot at my place of employment this past year as we've found ourselves in positions to have to take a position on controversial topics - damned if we do, damned if we don't, angry constituents becomes the cost of doing business. Most of all, I appreciate that you're continuing to work at it, thus far undeterred.

As far as GS: I wouldn't name it that; it strikes me as needlessly alienating. Makes a ton of sense to change it.
 
This kind of political correctness is insincere as are most micro triggers. The problem is there is no substantive or meaningful change in how society operates, it's more like stampede lip service, which has about as much value as junior high school petty gossip. Changing the name will not stop the behavior. There will always be people who either love or are addicted to buying gear, and you can't stop the men and women from behaving like sluts if they want to no matter what you do. I thought the name had comedic value, or is comedy the new evil too now?

People need to do something with their lives as this strikes me as what can someone complain about next when they are bored by their life and have way too much time on their hands or perhaps someone feels a lack of fulfillment or power in their own life and wants to project their anger towards some micro trigger cause, like that will change anything...It won't.

On a similar note, imagine if none of the sports teams ever had Native American Indian names and Native American Indians protested sports teams that they were being ignored, excommunicated, left out and neglected by main stream entertainment and demanded that major sports teams honor Native Americans by recognizing their heritage in the new Native American Indians Lives Matter movement that sweeps the country. The Green Bay Packers becomes the Green Bay Redskins, the Denver Broncos becomes the Denver Braves, the Las Vegas Raiders become the Las Vegas Indians. You can turn these micro triggers upside down and inside out so that whoever wants to be offended can somehow justify their indignation. In the end this is all wordplay. I am not saying words don't matter, but it's not like there is substantive improvement in the lives of Native American Indians if we as a culture remove or add the nicknames of our sports teams to gain the approval of people who are upset in the moment of now. Changing a sports teams moniker does not bring back the 55 million Native American Indians who died from smallpox, measles and the flu when European colonists arrived in America.
 
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I thought the name had comedic value, or is comedy the new evil too now?
It has to be the "right" comedy. In opposite to the "wrong" comedy. That some Twitter-groups define.

If all comedy that could possibly harm anyone's feelings (or any animal's) would be cancelled, there would not be much left.

Example:
Idiots feel ashamed if a comedian played an idiot. As such a large citizen group (one of the fastest growing right now!) is affected by comedians playing them, idiot jokes are now banned! All books or films containing the word "idiot" or where someone behaves like one must be burned and completely rewritten.
-> Sorry Monthy Python, as you are the root of evil now, you are the first on the stake.

Our world is becoming a place with less humour and more bricks to be dropped than a long time before, maybe ever.
 
Well, it's official:

Gearslutz Has Decided to Change Its Name


www.gearspace.com
 
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It's amazing there's 11 pages of discussion on the change of the name of a website.

As Jon S stated above, this is almost a farce - people getting worked up over a name. Homelessness. People out of work due to lockdowns. Not getting to hug your gramma...these are worth filling 11 pages with solutions over.

In any case, I'll add my $.02 to this pile of poo of a thread. I like the new name.
 
It's amazing there's 11 pages of discussion on the change of the name of a website.

As Jon S stated above, this is almost a farce - people getting worked up over a name. Homelessness. People out of work due to lockdowns. Not getting to hug your gramma...these are worth filling 11 pages with solutions over.

In any case, I'll add my $.02 to this pile of poo of a thread. I like the new name.
Not sure why it should amaze you that there's so many pages. Even someone such as yourself, who seemingly has the weight of the worlds problems on your shoulders, can make time to comment how pointless commenting is. It's amazing we're not into the hundreds of pages ;)
 
Not sure why it should amaze you that there's so many pages. Even someone such as yourself, who seemingly has the weight of the worlds problems on your shoulders, can make time to comment how pointless commenting is. It's amazing we're not into the hundreds of pages ;)
Yes, someone above it all such as myself LOL!! Point taken. I should know better...
 
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