Yep - looking up information on him, he insisted for many years that he was a man, and my have gone forward with medical intervention to help his physical gender expression. In the past, it was very common for transfolks’ friends and family to consistently misgender them, even if they were generally supportive of the…

Yep - as a career bartender and server, my brain immediately jumped to the exact same place. Especially given that the rest of the staff was positive. Also? Talking to the fucking newspaper about how one time you thought you didn’t get the money you wanted? Fuck that.

This woman has overcome garbage I can barely imagine to rise to power in THIS country. DO NOT TRY TO COME FOR HER, SHE HAS BURIED BETTER THAN YOU.

HOLY CRAP!!! True story, I, a Coloradan, had a telemarketing job for a couple months about 20 years ago. It was as non-shady as these things get: calling existing clients for assorted companies to set renewal appointments. My very first day on the phones, my supervisor warned me that I might get a client “named Timber…

Bullet dodged, seriously.

Fairly certain that the people behind this show would not get the point of that film at all.

Same here - all the couples I know that blended their last names just went with the combination that sounded best. It was about 50/50 as to which name was first, as I recall.

Not even slightly surprised - I’ve been telling people for years that he’s a scumbag. I worked as a porn shop clerk for a company that hosted a porn star party type thing every year, and everyone HATED Ron Jeremy because of things like this. It never really got out to the public, because he made lots of money for the…

I know this is a dumb thing to focus on, but her hair looks terrible in that photo - like, did nobody have a brush?!

I LOVE HER SO MUCH.

I was also briefly confused, but I now know that multiple artists named Nick Cave are apparently awesome at their chosen media.

Judging by that mugshot, “flashy” to that guy is any car that isn’t at least 40% Bondo, and has matching doors.

I actually have a lot of good friends who are part of the original California Death Rock scene (different to, and slightly after the UK Death Rock/Bat Cave scene began). Awesome humans, and excellent musicians. I think the many overlapping sub-genres and scenes are why we all just sorta go along with “goth” now. :D

I’m trying to be generous and assume good intentions. :D

Yeah, I’m pretty sure there are quite a few goths wrinkling their brows at some of these choices.

When I was a yoot, Death Rock and Goth referred to fairly specific subsets of an overarching culture we hadn’t really bothered to name yet (speaking of Front Range Colorado in the 80's) - I think around the early-mid 90's is when we just kinda shrugged and went with “Goth” as an umbrella term, mostly so we wouldn’t…

I was a teenager in Denver during this era, and it was...insane. Every possible race and class tension ramped up to 11, gangs of all stripes running things, confused, ineffectual police. It was bad. The KKK and neo-nazis got a foothold, and they were eventually aggressively driven out, because we learned that nothing…

There was a brief stretch of time around then when evening gowns sometimes had a weirdly antebellum-afternoon-party thing going on. Dresses like that can be spotted in a couple films - maybe the end of fabric shortages led to the look?

Trash, and a grossly overrated hack writer!