The earlier news report in The Stranger took pains to explain that The Stranger hadn't coined the term, and that any such claims would constitute acts of cultural appropriation.

Whose culture, specifically, was a little unclear-- it kinda sounded like the white male gays had got a firm grip on it, but maybe they swiped it from someone else?

@ 2 -- thank you, Dadddy!

Frizzelle appears unassailable in this matter and generally. I assess him as BDE/BHE. I call him Hole Dick . . . or "HIddy" in lighter moments.

I love this scrumptious assiduous rebuttal.

This entire thing is stupid, not to mention borderline sexist. I really miss the days when "the Stranger" had intelligent, informative writing.

@4 -- I also accept "Dick Hole." Or "Richard Vacuum."

@5 -- Thanks!

@6 -- When was that again?

@7

When it had to compete with The Rocket for bathhouse ad revenue.

I know it's hard to remember, but there really was a time when The Stranger's bread and butter wasn't "The 10 best places to drink Rosé this summer."

@ 8 -- The nineties were great. Back then The Stranger had no calendar to speak of, rose events or otherwise, and there were a ton of Seattle publications covering all sorts of things. Now there are basically no publications left. Also back in the nineties, we published 20 pieces of content per week. Now we publish at least 20 pieces of content per day, with fewer resources than newspapers had in the nineties. It's true that our calendar has grown to include every last event in the city, and I hear you that it bums you out because it's not the old way (snark and indignation and ignoring shit sure were fun) but it makes a lot of other readers happy to have a comprehensive source of information about what's going on in the city.

@6 Not borderline. Fuck this.

@9

I'm not talking about your calendar, I'm talking about the vapid lifestyle filler you run. It's exactly the same consumerist, advertiser-pandering shit you used to mock in Seattle Magazine (remember when you could do that with a straight face?).

But then I guess there used to be sources of ad revenue beyond the fine dining sector, and The Stranger's typical reader used to be young, white, and a bit broke instead of old, white, and and pretty flush.

This is really quite stupid.

Yes is there any way we could not make Big X Energy a thing?

Frizelle, this is delightful! One possible typo: people with Big Dick Energy don’t blow through life. They get blown through life while they rest on their elbows and admire their reflection in the cosmos.