Past all the justified fury, there's a certain wry amusement in how short-sighted the NFL has been. This is the position it put itself in when it decided to be the morality police regarding its players. Had they consistently waited for the law to finish and only responded to criminal convictions, they might have a leg…
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This is some rich person vanity project nonsense. I grew up in Manhattan, very little of rich person bs amazes me, but this...whooo....whole new level of SEE HOW RICH WE ARE.
As a practicing urban planner, I am shocked and amazed that the City of New York Planning Department and all of the city's utilities allowed this. Geothermal wells are things you do when you own LAND, not a brownstone in a giant city. There's no way this leaves a smaller energy footprint than just using a more…
You often see a refrain in the comments of posts about how maybe fat people are humans and don't deserve to be…
Everyone's too busy sexting to actually meet up and have sex.
That's not my only Willie Nelson joke, but it's my best.
I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.
I took it as a way to curb looting. It's a tough situation, and I think as long as the Ferguson PD isn't in charge, it's a good call.
"The problem is that MichFest purports to celebrate the very things that I am in dire need of being able to celebrate."
99.9% of women spend the first half of their lives believing that they can get pregnant, dealing with inconvenient, messy, painful periods, trying not to get pregnant, being absolutely terrified of getting pregnant, trying to get pregnant, being pregnant, nursing babies and raising children with their spouses, usually…
Women are still oppressed, we are still entitled to events just for women. Male privilege applies in some ways and mostly doesn't to mtf folks. The point is, just because they transitioned, does not mean they should be included in the gender binary. They are different. It's just a separate category - male-bodied…
That's based on a straw man. The question I was answering was "Why are biological parts a special indicator?" What I'm wondering is, why are pregnancy and childbirth (actual and potential) considered unimportant to the experience of being a woman by so many people? How is that possible? It devalues the fundamental…
I don't think it's special, but being biologically female often lends itself to being more easily recognizable as such and that, right there, invites a unique kind of attention. From day 1, you are treated as less, as something to be visually valued. I'm not trans, but some acquaintances of mine are. I respect who…
What? Really? How about the experience of (and fear of) pregnancy? The vulnerability, terror and power of being able to give birth to children. The power it gives you and the power it takes away. Even women who don't give birth to children are deeply affected by their ability to do so. Even women who can't have…
I've had this thought before, too. Like, in transwomen telling women they can't use words like "vagina," in insisting on access to women-born-women spaces, etc., it's REALLY hard not to see it as men asserting their male privilege and telling women to shut the fuck up, as per usual. And that's what I see it as,…
I'm not talking about the individual. Is the issue here that male-bodied people who transitioned in to a female life want access to events solely meant for female-bodied people who chose to live life as female? Because that's silly. Guess what? Having male anatomy at birth gives you a profoundly different set of…
Trans women aren't women like women born with female anatomy are. They don't experience the same things. They are a different category and women who were born female still need their own spaces. I don't understand all this trans sympathy in the place of maintaining spaces just for women or for the gay/lesbian…
Everyone is blowing this is off as some weird fetish-y thing and missing Mark's larger point: this is becoming normal. Let me repeat that again: hardcore, extreme and often dangerous sexual acts, overwhelmingly involving women, are becoming more and more normalized. Things that should be seasoned fetishes and…
The article is about how a dangerous new genre of porn is threatening the health and safety of porn actresses. It is not advocating this act or saying it is a good thing, rather the exact opposite. Nor does he mock people who engage in it. He is pointing to the porn industry for this problem, defending porn actors.…