If I had to pick the single most useful word I was taught in college, it would be one from my Heresy and Dissidence in the Middle Ages class:

"Normative."

More on that on another day, and why "normative" is a pretty good way to describe 90%+ of the things I don't like in modern "woke" culture, when I'm feeling healthier & smarter.

Memo to self: write a queer leftist parody of St Augustine's "De Haeresibus." ("On Heresies.") It's basically a hilarious-if-it-weren't-tragic, absurdly nitpicky, guide to everything that's wrong with every version of Christianity but his.

You know how in the old Paranoia RPG, they had those two different factions of "First Church of Christ Computer Programmer" that hated and condemned each other, even though the only difference between them was whether they did the sign of the cross clockwise or counterclockwise?

Yeah, exactly.

And that's where I worry we're headed some days. Like I'll wake up and just see a list of 300+ Insufficiently Woke Things Rezy Must Not Do, written by a bunch of college Instagrammarians with the approximate philosophical depth of Bertrand Russell's nosehair.

That, my friends, is the day that Rezy dons her sackcloth, runs for the hills of Queer France, starts scrawling pictures of Queer Baphomet* on walls, and goes full Queer Cathar.

*Charles Nelson Reilly