I am gay actually. This isn't even a heteronormative issue. The school forbids anyone from wearing a purse in class. Male or female. This article is just click bait feeding off of legitimate issues and unfortunately clogging them up.

My school had a rule against purses in middle school too, as far back as the 1980s.

Update (4:30 p.m. ET): Superintendent Don Blome told Raw Story that middle school students were forbidden from bringing their bags to class. He said the policy was applied fairly to male and female students.

Apparently the school has this policy for girls too. But who needs credibility or facts when you're fighting the capital P Patriarchy. Nobody could possibly get hurt except for everybody.

Worse. Girls getting sent home for purses. Since that is the school's actual policy.

Usually before claiming something is sexist or homophobic or whatever angle we're aiming for here we check to find out what the actual policy is. Clearly we checked to make sure the same policy doesn't always apply to females.

Clearly.

I mean because that would be obvious.

You checked right?

Guys?

Superintendent Don Blome…

It's not a thing. The school clarified that no one is allowed to wear a purse, male or female. You would think they would do this kind of basic fact checking before posting but. Well. Clicks is clicks.

I agree that in standard, formal writing its best avoided. For writing on Facebook (or Jezebel) most people speak in a voice closer to their vocalized one, in my experience. In any case most native speakers of English don't have trouble with phrases like I can't get no satisfaction where the double negative actually…

Bless your heart darlin. Just bless your heart.

Not sure it counts as completely oblivious, but double negatives are common in African American English. The currently popular phrase Ain't nobody got time for that is a good example.

I continue to deeply suspect a mental illness. Alcohol or drug abuse are also possibilities. He may also just be an asshole, but a person this oblivious just doesn't seem right. He is very literal, seems unable understand and pick up on nuance. Reminds me a lot of a former coworker who has Asperger's syndrome and a…

IMO plagiarism != appropriation.

I mean it's not like some straight guy copy-pasting one of my college essays is taking more away from me than if he instead copied another straight person. Hell if I got some weird letter about a straight dude stealing my stuff I would be a little annoyed that someone addressed me as…

In fairness to Queenie, I watch this episode in a crowded bar, and the audience roared when she asked for a Coke during the zombie invasion.

The way it was filmed, I read it as a mix of what Fiona was feeling along with what was "literally" there. It also seemed like her powers might have been causing some issues with the lighting. But overall I thought it was supposed to indicate her emotional state.

There's a discussion of the word's history here about halfway down the page. It actually briefly touches on "you all" but the main focus is you/ye/thee/thou.

http://etymonline.com/columns/do-be-…

Well really y'all is not just an accent thing. It's an actual (slangy to non-Southerners) word that has a completely different tone than you or you all. It's much more personal. It is very common to see in written letters (and now emails) addressed to family or friends. "I hope y'all have a Merry Christmas" has a…

The word you (along with ye) used to be plural. The word thou used to be the singular.

But you and y'all do not mean the same thing to people who speak that vernacular. The alternative is you all or you guys which in turn sound very formal and very impersonal to Southerners.

It is written in the same tone that people use words like gonna and sorta and veggies and lemme. Y'all (all y'all) will just have to get a grip on it. :)

Here's some background on this from my gay perspective on why gay men in particular (and possibly lesbians) are historically wary about this topic. All views expressed are my own.

Way back in the Dark Ages—as in 1993—it was really, really uncool to be gay. So uncool that at that time a major network had never aired a…