I don't care what my em-dashes might say. I have been using them from the very get-go of my writing in the 1990s, and the AI-vestigators can just take them from my cold dead hands.

BTW, if anyone's curious, I don't use any kind of generative AI in my writing. It's all bespoke, handcrafted wordsmithery. I used an AI image in the thumbnail because it seemed thematic, but this was a one-off for this specific topic. Otherwise, I only use human art (with permission & credit ofc).

I completely agree. I used to love haunting the comment sections of evangelical blogs. Every time one of them wrote about church problems, the comments were full of older people (at the time, 50-70) who'd left their churches due to drama. This trend's overdue.

Yes - for everyone involved!