Some people have helper dogs and they're allowed to go places with them because they have disabilities.
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"The harm that the word "tranny" does to transgender individuals is serious. The damage is real. And while the word has been used in other parts of the queer community, it is overwhelmingly seen in a negative light and used as a slur by wider society. Specifically, towards transgender women, although sometimes…
Ru's use of the term is admittedly part of a sexual-minority dialect which does not have a one-to-one relationship with English at large, or even with dialects of other sexual minorities. I can't help but think, though, that in policing Ru's language and denying him access to the term, there's some element of…
Thanks for saying this. I have to realize that I am seriously old enough that well, younger adults have a completely different cultural experience of our community. I've never heard the word used as a pejorative, but more and more younger trans woman are saying, "I've never heard it used as anything but a violent…
There's a long history of this word, and a long recent battle disputing its history. Trannyshack just changed it's name due to pressure, despite it being an 18-year-old club named for an apartment in the Haight where many genderqueers lived and identified as Trannies. Kate Bornstein (and others, like me) recall it as…
RuPaul identifies as a gay man who dresses as a women professionally, so it should be "his" album.
I don't get it. This guy looks like Winnie the Pooh. How are attractive, smart women hooking up with him? Being president of France can't be THAT much of an aphrodisiac.
It's amazing how there are people on this VERY ARTICLE who are claiming that no, dogs and other animals are COMPLETELY FINE with pot, because pot is completely harmless and anyone telling you otherwise is some puritanical pearl-clutching harpy.
People who do this (intentionally) are the WORST. Blowing pot smoke in your dog's face (or even worse, feeding them THC-laced food) is not funny. And yet, some shitstain inevitably thinks it's some kind of HILARIOUS JOKE. Ugh.
Gillibrand is the absolute shit, and I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. In a quick sound bite, she's not going to give us a footnoted essay on socialization, patriarchy and structural inequality. I think she's just trying to say that it's easier as a woman to try to make nice and smooth feathers,…
What the hell kind of sociopath is this dude? I bet his name is Chet or Trey or some shit like that.
My interpretation has much to do with the body of Melgaard's work, which has included representations of the sexual dominance of black men. Melgaard is certainly aware of the "problematic" aspects of his work. I think your interpretation is valid, but he plays to the "bad-boy" trope too willingly for me to accept it…
The derivative is also a legitimate artwork by Bjarne Melgaard in the style of Jones. It is meant to provoke and scandalize. The exhibit was staged by an entity Melgaard calls "Big Fat Black Cock Inc." – purposefully courting offense. Whether that was in service of an actual point is up for debate. Personally, I find…
As another astute commenter pointed out, this is a Bjarne Melgaard replica of quite an iconic furniture-sculpture of a white woman. By depicting the figure as black, Melgaard is looking to recontextualise something which we are inured to due to its place in the pop-culture canon - but which, in reality, should still…
The piece in the original post is a Bjarne Melgaard sculpture in imitation of Allen Jones' furniture pictured in your comment. Melgaard's schtick in these pieces was to change the skin color; they were exhibited with paintings that also swapped the subject's race. He is most definitely courting racial offense.
It's a line of sculpture/furniture that was very popular at "hip" restaurants in the 80s. Not the best timing with today being MLK Day, but I'm not sure it's racist.
This is like what Gone with the Wind would have been like if Scarlett hadn't had curtains, but had instead had the blankie I loved when I was 4.
It took me two years to realize that Amy Adams and Isla Fisher are two different people.
I can't seem to reply to people. So, yeah.