I think Mark is trying to purge some words from his own lexicon, and it's his blog, his rules.

His blog, his rules absolutely. I just personally don't think it's entirely healthy to ban the word and not just its use as a slur. The "gay is not a synonym for shitty" clarification, as it were.

Gay is not a bad word and I don't think it should be treated as one. But that only works when you can get people to go along with you.

When dealing with the whole internet on your blog, maybe erring on the side of nonuse is easier than the alternative for him. I think it takes away a valid description of Dru, but his rules.

Was anyone else kind of grossed out by the demon thinking so poorly of Giles respecting Jenny’s consent?

Wait, Mark said that? I have to echo ita here, and say -- does he GET what a demon is?

I'm not sure. He's got some holes in his SF/Fantasy education.

I think that Joss alone does a decent setup of "Evil. Monsters do it, people do it. It's bad." You don't need to be well read to get that.

He's appalled at what the bad people do? Welcome to ... oh, welcome.

I don't get not loving her right from the very first second

If you had to spend the number of hours he obviously has tying himself up in knots trying to figure out how to describe her without using "crazy" or any of its synonyms, maybe she'd be less endearing?

I would add that when various traveling peoples are being regularly attacked by mobs (In middle Europe) and kicked out of their homes (in all of Europe, including the UK) I'm pretty sure that continuing to use the word "gypped" is not cool.

Mark did add to the thing about the consent

Like, I get the demon would do that, but the dynamic was still really awkward and I don’t like it and please go back to being a cute couple because I already miss it.

I'm not sure if he was thinking the writers shouldn't have gone there because it was awkward and horrible.

Did most of us realize by early S2 that the show was going to go to go there or maybe was it after Angelus came back? Part of the fun of the show was the HSQ.

Honestly, I thought not reposting the part where he says the evil soulless being is making it "awkward" made him look better, not worse.

I'm just going to guess he doesn't watch L&O:SVU, and would be quite shocked by the shenanigans.

Like, I get the demon would do that, but the dynamic was still really awkward and I don’t like it

Maybe...this is not the show for him?

Yeah, he should just skip ahead to Supernatural (I totally fail to get that decision).