Because people are first and foremost always assholes basically.

I'm a married gay dude who will never, ever have any chance of being inconvenienced by an "oops" baby, but I am just as strongly in favour of abortion as I am same-sex marriage. Abortion IS an equality issue, the Supreme Court erred in declaring it part of right to privacy, it put the ruling on much weaker…

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your friends are spewing bullshit! me and all my lady-gay peeps are totally fighting for abortion rights...i actually am just now writing a piece on "lesbian privilege" specifically about this issue. hang in there!

I'm not crying — there's just some freedom in my eye. Sniff.

See also: homophobic racial minorities. Whats up with any of that - or this? I don't understand why any person who has personal experience with oppression would not be able to see the parallels in their own oppression of others. How can you say the systematic oppression of women today doesn't affect you gay man/woman?…

As a kind of related point to your post - I've been trying to get gay friends on board with the fight to protect abortion. I've always been a vocal advocate of marriage equality despite not wanting to marry a woman. My gay friends both male and female say that their fight was about equality, and that abortion doesn't…

That's exactly how I feel & thanks for taking the time to talk about it in detail. People need to seriously chill the hell out.

Absolutely. Golden Girls definitely paved the way for SATC. You can't possibly argue that SATC didn't carry the baton forward though.

Yup, it's the "Seinfeld is Unfunny" effect. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.…

I think the crux of the issue is that the show was so hugely influential that it actually changed how female characters were written pretty much across the board. People don't really remember what a lot of entertainment was like pre-Sex and the City. Watching it now it seems incredibly dated and cliche but it was the…

Most modern shows become much better when you realize the characters are not role models, even if they are easy to relate to.

Firstly, how do you know that the people who are posting pictures of the hoodie on their Facebook aren't also engaging in other anti-racist action? Secondly, isn't that an act in itself, with constructive consequences? Would you rather they organize a demonstration/get published/write their representatives or do…

How so? She may be entirely aware of her white privilege and feel at a loss of how to convey/show that support in another manner. I don't doubt that there are white people wearing hoodies thinking that the sweatshirt was the issue but it is not all of them. And also, for the people that say race did not play a part in…

I see your point but I really disagree that that's what she's doing. I don't think she's acting black or acting poor. I think she's being an ally.

Allies are important. She absolutely under no circumstances should believe that she understands Trayvon's situation or that she understands her white privilege. But there…

in other news, "butt mask" is now the funniest combination of words in the universe.