Except in this case we're critiquing a work of art, which can intersect with social issues, but is a different discussion. Anyone can have an opinion on the artistic merits of a film. I happen to agree with the critique of Leto's performance and found the film as a whole underwhelming and wildly historically…

You're allowed to has an opinion about a film even if it's not about your experience. I'm not a trans woman and I felt exactly the same way about Leto's performance. I'm also white and I think 12 years a slave is an amazing film. Everyone is entitled to an opinion about art regardless of their identity. There is such…

If they don't. Sorry forgot to finish that sentence.

I was just saying earlier today that part of why I want her, and 12 years, to win is not only because I think they should, but also because I dread all the think pieces on racism in Hollywood that would follow.

My friend had a disturbed patient in a hospital who kept getting blood infections and they couldn't figure out why, until they caught her putting her own feces into her IV line. I guess it was her way of trying to kill herself, so apparently this is a thing.

I'm gay, but I don't even go to bars so I don't have skin in this game, but I think it's ok for gay men to want certain bars that are for them just like I think it's ok for lesbians to want bars that are theirs and African Americans to want to have their own spaces etc etc. that doesn't bother me. Some gay bars are…

clearly those people represent all of us. way to generalize.

This is why the whole discourse around privilege is massively flawed, and yes don't dare say this in certain places or you'll get it. A straight male professor in one of my classes asserted that he knew what it was like to be gay because he sometimes gets mistaken for gay, and said that gay men enjoy male privilege. I…

Some gay bars are just general social watering holes, and in those places everyone is welcome. Some are more hardcore cruising/pickup places and are generally meant for guys who are there for that.

Love the quotes on homophobic, as if that's not a thing that exists or that you're capable of. You realize you're taking the actions of a few and generalizing it to an entire group of people right? That's called bigotry. Some gay men are assholes just like everybody else but that doesn't give you license to believe we…

Wow this article has really given license to the jezebel commentariat to open the homophobia spigot. Let the gross generalizations fly!

The fact that you feel entitled to our spaces is just your own hetero privilege showing. The rest of the world belongs to you. Is that not enough?

Thank you thank you thank you. The headline if this article should have been: "news flash! Gay men can be assholes too." Duh.

Parts of this are reasonable and prescient but here are what I find to be the glaring problems:

So you're going to defend such petty, immature, harassing behavior simply because the perpetrator is a woman? Imagine if the tables were turned and a spurned man sent a woman's nudes to her family from fake Facebook accounts? I'm sure you'd wish hellfire and brimstone to rain down upon him, and rightly so. That…

...except he did it first, so maybe it should be called pulling a bowie?

The only really enjoyable part was Miss Piggy's "Santa Baby," which of course did not feature Lady CaCa.

It's like what the Joker says in the Dark Knight: "Nobody panics when things go 'according to plan.' Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all 'part of the plan.' But when I say…