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* [[Mary Sue]] has a misaimed hatedom and a fandom, believe it or not. One of the most widespread usage of the term "[[Mary Sue]]" is to complain about a protagonist or character they don't like, as well as "They are cliche" and a tool to attack the author. <ref>Yeah, some people don't take criticisms of mary sues too seriously, but one ''really'' shouldn't neglect how many people throw the term around merely as [[Flame Bait]]</ref> The term "[[Mary Sue]]" has begun to lose almost all meaning to some people, partly ''because'' of term abuse.
** [[Common Mary Sue Traits]] should be mentioned; because many people assume that it's merely ''because'' of those traits that make a character a [[Mary Sue]] and avert them by making them look as boring as possible and turning them into an [[Anti-Sue]], or immediately dismissing someone as having even one or two of those [[Common Mary Sue Traits]] as a [[Mary Sue]], without even ''acknowledging'' that those are ''not'' the sole determinant of a [[Mary Sue]]. Many Litmus exams out there also have a tedndency to pretty much list character traits the person who wrote the test ''doesn't like'' and wants to eliminate from fiction by listing it as a [[Mary Sue]] trait.
*** Tellingly, the actual [[Trope Namer]] from "[[A Trekkies Tale (Fanfic)|A Trekkie's Tale]]" doesn't really have all that many of these traits (although the ones she does have are obvious and parodically over-the-top). Still, you may have noticed that "Mary Sue" is, in fact, a perfectly ordinary name and not something like "Serenity Jupiter Princess Moonlight Kirk". Although [[Time Marches On]]; as do names. Mary Sue wasn't ''as'' uncommon as a name around the time the story was written as it is ''now'', but the same can be said about names like "Dorothy", "Blanche", "Ethel", etc.
** And then there are those people who, because of he constant misuse of the term, misunderstand [[Mary Sue]] as a slur against strong female characters and attempt to reclaim it. Basically, people should be proud to call their characters Mary Sues.
* KFC attempted a ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' related promotion, the "Frak Pak Sweepstakes". Considering what the word "frak" is a substitute for, this got a bit of attention from the fanbase, albeit not for the intended reasons.
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** It goes both ways: some people support various pro-Western dictators. Granted, it isn't so common today, but was much more so during the [[Cold War]].
** A lot of support for both pro-and-anti-American dictatorships comes with heavy doses of [[Enemy Mine]].
* Barry Goldwater, while often hailed today as a leader of modern conservatism, was actually quite liberal in many regards, especially on social issues. His ideology was less conservative and more libertarian, however many of his views seemed quite extreme back in the [[The Sixties|1960s]] when he was running for President of the United States. He said numerous things that seemed too out of the mainstream, and this ultimately ended in his landslide defeat to [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] in 1964. However, later in life when the [[Ronald Reagan]] conservatives and religious fundamentalists dominated the Republican Party and treated Goldwater as a hero to the right-wing, Goldwater stated that today's Republican Party is not the same as it was in the 60s and [[Your Approval Fills Me with Shame|he was ashamed to be part of such an extreme political party]].
* Some people say something to the effect of "Yeah, [[Benito Mussolini]] did a lot of bad things, but he also made the trains run on time." (They actually didn't.)
* Yes, it's still rape if the victim gets off. Really, [[Humans Are Morons|it's sad this has to be here]].
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