The piece about shipping: yay! It's pretty cool to see that taken seriously in a media outlet that isn't fannish in nature.

And the one about Trump-style damage being done to kids: AAARRRGH. Yeah, I see it with the Nieblings. I was hoping that with their bleed-over from horribly racist relatives, that the effect might be exaggerated. I am very sad to hear that other people are seeing the same patterns.

Re inessential weirdness: That's a really interesting perspective and one I'm going to chew on for a while. (I wonder how many differences exist between PMC definitions of "essential weirdness" and those of the people they're trying to form coalitions with - I suspect that number is large.)

You have good company in Hufflepuff. :D