a definition of ‘racism’ can be:
2) Discrimination or prejudice based on race.

(The American Heritage? Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

if you substitute ‘race’ for ‘species’ in a definition of ‘specist’, you do not exclude species in other genus, nor are you necessarily referring to another species within your own genus. thus the term ‘specist’ isn’t logically wrong, is it? it makes good sense to use it because the popular understanding of the word ‘species’ (compared to ‘order’, ‘family’, ‘genus’, whatnot).

yes, genusist (genist?) would be better word to use if you want to be accurate, but my point is that it isn’t illogical to use ‘speciest’ on someone who would say ‘i hate all species but my species’, which certainly is saying the same thing as ‘i hate all genus but my genus’ given the circumstance.

then again, i probably would be labeled a kingdomist (kingdist?) by any mineralist since i’m vegan and consciously discriminate against all kindoms but the animalia, and i have some friends who would be ‘classists’ on account of not eating mammals.

It’s called a “tetralogy,” people. “Three tragedies and a satyric,” my good friend Euripides helpfully adds.

And another thing: What’s the deal with curmudgeons? They used to be confined to the back pages of magazines; then they started showing up in final minute of news broadcasts. Nowadays I can’t turn on the Internet without seeing some dime-store misanthrope wax annoyingly about this or that trivial solecism.

On the pet peeves of language, use of the term “irregardless” bugs me. It’s “regardless”. Adding extra syllables in an effort to sound educated just backfires.
Also “geometrical” – what’s wrong with “geometric”, not long enough?
If there is a distinction in the meaning of the two words, what is it?

Finally, why is everything you buy now a “system”? A system has to be reasonably complicated. For example, a broom is not a “floor debris removal system” it’s a fucking broom. A razor is not a “shaving system”. It’s really getting silly.

Personal pet peeve – using “literally” to mean “figuratively” which apparently bothers David Cross as well.

Old bother – pronouncing “suite” as in “bedroom suite of furniture” as “sute” (as not to confuse with “soot”) when it should still be fucking “sweet”

Ditto on the Interstellar hottie remark.

However — not to be a wet blanket or anything — I find it hard to contemplate even the extrauniversal beauty (meaning it’s a valid constant across all potential Multiverses) of 7-of-9, when my attention is being pulled around by the continuing deterioration and surrender of America’s political structure to proto-fascisim. Not to mention the Tsnuami.

And the lump on The Chimp’s back — which I suspect to be one of those creatures from Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters.