Hmm… I was going to say that if you put him in a brown shirt, he’d look like a teenage member of Hitler Youth.  Maybe it’s because I’m over 50?

The amount of ad buys from places like Daily Wire that were anti-Heard and just the amount of coordinated vitriol at Heard supporters on social media would seem to point towards a coordinated attack. I doubt Ben Shapiro gives three shits about Johnny Depp, but I imagine a coordinated assault on the claims of one abuse…

It’s not just you. I worked for a midwifery organization and they explicitly put out a memo saying that their efforts to make language more inclusive would not involve removing the term ‘woman’ from the language, because the midwifery profession is very much aware of its history and that it provided a counterpoint to…

I’m fine with “women and birthing people” or “women and menstruators” or any other term people want, but I’m not ready to give up on woman/women because women are still struggling to achieve equal rights and the word’s existence doesn’t preclude that of people with other gender identities, but they can be listed in…

I’ve known (and I suspect we all do) many people who I can confidently say were even more irresponsible by actively having children when they weren’t capable of caring for one.

Yeah, I really want to know the details of the one case the ACLU was unable to get the permission from a judge. How did that judge find the girl too immature to decide to have an abortion without parental consent but found her mature enough to have and parent a child. Idiotic. There’s no question in my mind that…

Just read this and so totally relate! Also, for masterful short stories written in the second person, Lorrie Moore’s Self Help is unbeatably hilarious. I’m so glad I gave my DFW books to a indy used book store. Thank you!

I have to read this, thank you! I was a huge DFW fan until I read the In the Land of Men by Adrienne Miller about her relationship with him. I still love articles like “Consider the Lobster” and his speech to Kenyon College (“This is Water”), but man was he a lot.

She is on tape admitting to hitting him to stop him drunkenly crushing her toes against a door. Wow. How abusive of her. And oh shit, she hasn’t been able to give that money to charity amid being sued repeatedly by her ex. I forgot that defending yourself in multiple libel and defamation trials is totally free!

Can we just hurry up and have him lose this case too so we can all move on? As though the UK trial (which proved he can be called a ‘wife beater’ because he technically *is* a person who beat his wife) wasn’t enough. Please stay cancelled Johnny.

This is well written. It’s so hard to balance acknowledging when a corporation does something objectively good while also being clear that 1. they could be doing a lot more and 2. they should not have to do it at all.

These are the kinds of people that would send a child back to Ukraine on a plane by themselves because the child ended up being too “damaged” (i.e. traumatized) and/or isn’t grateful for being “saved”.

This is like asking why we care so much about hackers in a video game since its all just for funsies anyway. In the spirit of fair competition, which sports should be based on, its important to note and evaluate any unfair advantage.

Are these republicans taking it too far? Absolutely. But this didn’t come from…

I agree with a lot of what you said, although I personally think there is no real reason to bar transwomen undergoing hormone therapy. The modest differences from puberty are smaller than individual differences.

How about “tired trans woman”.

That’s fine. Look in fairness I’m definitely not in the camp that is the most inclusive either.

1) If an article mentions transwomen you are sure to show up and attack anyone in the comments section whose reply is anything other than “transwomen are women”. While you didn’t egange in a personal attack you were very hostile to literally every person here. Your reply, “Who the fuck cares”, to my reply about…

I’ve watched you attack so many people on this site, and admit that you aren’t trans, that I believe you’re intentionally hurting the trans community. There’s no reason to alienate allies like you do unless you’re actively bringing down the community. You’ve turned allies into “fine, whatever, I don’t care anymore”…

Aside from all the science of how important it is for child development and physical health, especially for girls and young women?

they created that account for that single comment.