Get your dogs a thundershirt and stop complaining about ONE DAY where people want to set off fireworks and cookout and have fun.

Well....this is somewhat less than completely shocking. What a douche.

what?

I think she would appreciate that joke

The most frustrating thing is having to say the same thing over and over again, while being told we're being PC or too sensitive when we complain about being targeted and hurt.

I have no idea what you're even attempting to say.

Actually, racist and transphobic jokes are the opposite of funny. She is the worst, and anyone who continues to defend her bigoted ass is also the worst.

I know plenty of old people who aren't bigots. This is not an excuse we should be using anymore. This is a shitty fucking excuse and lazy as hell. We as humans INCLUDING OLDER PEOPLE are better than this shit.

"T**nny" IS a slur. That doesn't mean that being transgender is a bad thing. In the same way that "n*gger" is a slur, but being black is not a bad thing.

Exactly! It seems like a pretty well-worn trope that strong black women invariably have their femininity attacked. No surprise that this is playing well with the Tea People.

Yeah, remind me again why I'm supposed to think Joan Rivers is some kind of comic genius? And there's so many layers to her choosing this specific insult too. The masculization of black women ties into the way we're seen as tough work horses, able to take pain, and available to be abused. It's just racism, misogyny,…

I'm also going to add racism to that, and you basically have your main dickweed categories.

I feel like Michelle Obama will somehow find the strength to soldier on after having been called a generic mean name by a 117-year-old lizard-faced insult comic.

So she calls Obama gay, because Michelle is trans. I've seen people defending this as a joke, but it really is a terrible joke. It's based on the ideas that 1) being trans is inherently a negative, secret thing and 2) men who are attracted to trans women are gay. It's really a hat trick of anti-Obama, homophobia, and…

I think the point there was that she calls Obama gay as a joke. It's twofold.

Oh, misogynoir... you can't be a black woman who beautiful, successful, whip smart, excellent mother and married to the most powerful man on Earth. A white person will always come along and tear off pieces of your humanity.

I think Listerine actually began as a topical antiseptic, like for cuts, and then, recipe unchanged, became a mouthwash. Listerine had ads during the depression saying things like "halitosis could put your job at risk." So definitely a similar idea.

I had no idea that Gillette is the reason why we are told to shave our underarms and legs. That is fucking mindblowing. What in the absolute fuck.

...if they don't shave their arm pits or legs for 10 weeks...

Weirdly enough, I am most interested in finding out how many of the men opted into the extra credit, and what they feel they learned (or didn't learn) from it.