And then there’s Variety with this bullshit...

I think this is a well-intentioned statement, likely doable in most casual conversations or offhand mentions—but it’s probably not practicable for any remotely serious discussion of her career (and, arguably, her legacy.)

The only people pushing these topics in any significant way, and going on and on about it, is conservatives. The decent response is to call it out as shitty and harmful. To allow it to continue without any response (while physical attacks on trans people increases as a result) would be vile in itself.

I spent my freshman year at the University of Alabama and never even considered a sorority as in I knew it wasn’t for me in more ways than one (as in they wouldn’t want me, either). I have never been in a more horribly racist environment in my life than those 10 months I spent in Tuscaloosa. These are horrible people,…

Let’s be exceedingly clear. The .5% of the population (if that’s the number) that identifies as transgender is not dominating the political discourse. Shitty ultra-right-wing assholes are using the LGBTQ2+ population as pawns in their terrible culture war. That’s what is dominating the media. 

“Please clap”

Because Republicans deliberately whip up their idiot voters’ rage against this very small number of people, encouraging and causing violence and hatred against them, forcing decent people to respond by trying to help them.

Nimrata “Nikki” Randhawa Haley, the fascists you have willingly joined will not stop at trans people. The only way they can claim the power they (and you) crave is by demonizing different people and stoking irrational fear in the ignorant. They start with the weaker, smaller groups and then work their way up to…

Nothing says your political party has no platform quite like perpetually targeting a demographic of people doing nothing but living their lives peacefully. 

In fairness, what else is she supposed to talk about? Do you expect her to have actual ideas about how to address the real problems her constituents face?

Dude here. Greek life anecdote!

My impression of Greek life was always (and remains) “Oh, you’re really scared to be alone with your thoughts now that your high school posse isn’t around, huh?”

I picked my college in no small part for its absence of Greek life. I've changed my mind about lots of things over the last 20 years but I still feel like that was a solid choice. 

It’s like these dudes who put “Alpha Male” in their Twitter handle. The least “alpha male” thing you can possibly do is tell everyone that you’re an alpha male.

I really try to speak less ill of the dead and move on without discussing them even I think they were bad people more than most other people on this website but if Josh Hawley Carradines himself one day I will laugh out loud.

If you want to be told about manhood, some guy wrote a book about it

The entire premise of writing a book to instruct on manliness is inherently flawed. Everyone knows a real man would never read a whole book. They are only permitted to quickly glance at the pages of a Playboy magazine or an auto repair manual for a 2006 Dodge Ram. That’s it.

Brave Sir Hawley ran away

“Calm that shit down, y’all act like gentlemen when y’all in our presence.”

I’m thinking maybe she just ended up mixing her messages a bit here. We had the bit about the suitability of the trophy for stabbing the oppressors. Okay, good. Then, she gives a salute/battle cry to vajayjay-havers, using “up the vajayjay!” in the sense of “up the revolution!, while thrusting the trophy triumphantly…