ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ I totally agree w/ your first par. Nobody thinks they’re the asshole. And I accept your decision to go with “shrug/dismiss” w/ respect to where these angry, bigoted anti-trans radfems are “coming from.” Definitely think that’s a fine response from e.g. Sarah McBride. Only so much time in the day to worry over…

Agree! But I’m not criticizing Sarah McBride. I’m criticizing Prachi Gupta and Jezebel. Huffpost is a general-news site, and they already reported the facts of this incident. Jezebel supposedly exists to provide smart writing about, specifically, quote-unquote women’s issues. When reporting on things like, say,…

Agree. But also wish we could do more than talk about who we judge and who gets a pass - and instead spend some time on what’s revealed by the growing pile of examples that even those coming from ostensibly intersectionalist movements seem to have a lot of trouble thinking deeply about their own prejudices, or even…

AND - dang it - I re-read your post and think I misread part of it the first time. And now it’s too late to edit the first par. of my reply. IF I could, I’d replace everything after “...wrote!” with:

Streuthy: I love what you wrote! These are great points, especially your idea that the prospect of a non-binary gender-world could be perceived as a threat by some who may have built their identities around engaging with gender as a binary (e.g. the “radical feminist” harassers in this incident). Hadn’t thought about…

Can you show me the place in what I wrote where I extol the virtues of anything? I asked why the site, and Prachi, can’t put in the work to do some actual reporting on how transphobia has found a place in radical feminism, rather than just repost-writing another article about how “some assholes acted like assholes” -…

Funny. Funny! Funny man. Can we have a post crowdsourcing a list of all the players in that “NFL 100" ad now? Call it a sop to an evil corporate BorgLeague’s transparent grab for our affections, midway through a tedious spectacle we all shoulda boycotted anyway. It is, but I’d like to know who all the guys were in the…

Prolly too much to ask of this blog, but if you’re going to report on this (report = repost/summarize and discuss a report), why not acknowledge the distinctness or complexity of anti-trans harassment by radical feminists (vs. by bog-standard trans-and-homophobic cis/hetero people)? You describe the incident, then…

The financiers truly don’t care, and they’re the ones who deserve this kind of pressure and attention. As so many pointed out in Comments the comments on yesterday’s much lamer Singer-related article, dragging actors like Rami Malek for appearing in Singer’s films makes barely more sense than calling out the sound…

In hindsight it’s actually comforting. I’d rather believe that, yes, the grotesquely rich get to have all the things BUT (thank you, karma) they lose the ability to appreciate anything in the firehose-flood of overabundance. Clearly, on that night at least, my friend and I got a lot more pleasure out of the reasonable-…

I’m not sure I follow, but I’m also not sure Chris Tucker is still a person on the Earth. So I bet the answer is Mariah.

This is important.

She never got naked, but I sat a couple of tables over from Mariah at Nobu in Manhattan around 2003ish. We were there on like a “very special occasion splurge” kinda night. She and her dinner date, Chris Tucker, ordered about 20 dishes - it looked like a Roman banquet - then sat looking at their BlackBerrys…

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All ambitious new cheesemaking is totally welcome. But there are a lot of Americans already producing amazing and distinct cheeses. If you haven’t had Harbison, made by Jasper Hill Farms in Vermont, do. It’s amazing. Started showing up in our Philly cheese shops 6 or 7 years ago. As good, in its own way, as any of…

“Why am I surrounded by backstabbing imbeciles?”

Besides the 10 subjects, there’s the Lycotec* slogan: “Development and Commercialisation of Carotenoid based Technologies.” General rule of thumb: distrust science conducted by someone selling you the thing they’re testing.

Hey don’t forget the high-pitched and petulant “pansy” voice he uses to embody all the people he mocks in the set - so hacky and implicitly homophobic it would’ve made Jay Leno blush in 1998.

I hate everything about CK’s “comeback.” That he’s doing it, the way he’s doing it, the way people are letting him do it, or celebrating him doing it.  And (not but), besides being a symbolic figure and #metoo object-lesson, this is a specific person who is clearly spiraling. “Who cares?” is a fine response (as far as…

You mean because he should’ve used “whom?”