Nope! (Or at least I’ve never seen one.) She “wins” basically every red carpet she ever appears on, and I am now coveting the hell out of that blue dress. So pretty!

I think it’s just a weird angle on that particular photo combined with a haircut/color/style that’s similar to how Jennifer Lawrence has styled hers recently. Uma looks like herself to me from other angles.

It is not “unfair” for a man who had already proven himself repeatedly to be a racist, sexist, ableist, Islamophobic, ignorant, idiotic, staggeringly narcissistic pathological liar who sexually assaults women not to get his personal slate magically wiped clean on November 9th. He had decades in the public eye in which…

It seems very silly to lump all 2.2 billion Christians together and insist that their beliefs are all terrible, backwards, and unreasonable when it’s very easy to find Christians who are none of those things, but I have a feeling nothing anyone says here is going to change your mind. If you’re determined to hate 2.2…

Whoa. Young Ivanka looks weirdly like young me. Her mouth shape is very different and my face wasn’t nearly as round, but we easily could have passed for sisters. I’m not sure whether to be depressed by the idea of looking like a Trump, comforted by the fact that a Trump went to great lengths not to look anything like…

Just so you know, there are a lot of Christian denominations - including the largest one on Earth - that believe that being a good person is the key to getting into heaven, not belief in Jesus. Generally, their idea is that believing in Jesus and thus having his example to follow makes being a good person easier, but…

Yep. It’s ridiculous. As you said, I’m willing to believe that any given person may have an invisible disability and actually need their seat, but there is no way that every seated person on a given train/bus does. (Actually, I suppose I’m not willing to believe that “any” given person needs their seat, because more…

That still leaves almost 900,000 Clinton voters and almost a million non-Trump voters in Tennessee. I mean, I’d like to imagine that all people who behave like idiots must be Trump supporters, but it seems somewhat more likely that someone who is violently angry about the imminent repeal of Obamacare wasn’t in favor…

I agree that not having to say “I’m disabled, could you please let me sit down?” would be really, really nice, but I’m doubtful about the ability of these pins to make a significant difference - I mentioned in another thread that when I used a cane for years, it was depressingly common for people to pointedly pretend…

I have multiple nasty heath issues (including fibro, so solidarity fistbump there - it’s a bitch of an illness) that made me need a cane for years and now make me use a wheelchair. The wheelchair pretty much makes the decision for me, because approximately zero of my city’s limited public transit system is…

Sure. Here you go:

Look up the United Church of Christ, for starters. There are definitely Christian churches that aren’t particularly shy about being pro-LGBT rights, pro-choice, pro-immigrant, and anti-basically-everything-Trump-stands for. “Local church not made up of assholes” just doesn’t tend to make the news the way angry,…

“in all of Trump’s life, he never set foot in a church until he was elected”

Yep. I can’t remember the relevant title or author right now because it’s been several years, but I read a novel whose heroine was quite specifically and unambiguously described in the text as being plump, brown-haired, brown-skinned, and bespectacled. Cover art: skinny, blonde, fair-skinned white woman with no…

If it helps you, great! I’m genuinely glad. (God knows we need things to make us laugh right now, so I mean it - if this helps you even a little bit, I’m happy for it.) I don’t even really mind the joke in itself - it’s not funny to me right now because fear is kicking my butt too hard to laugh very much at anything,…

I think it’s probably easier to be “light-hearted” if your preexisting conditions aren’t likely to kill you if the AHCA passes and your entirely Republican-controlled state strips away your ability to pay for necessary healthcare. I have a lot of trouble finding this stuff very funny when the joke appears to be “lol…

Yup. I would lose coverage thanks to “giving myself,” among other things, two autoimmune disorders and PTSD as a result of rape and abuse. I have friends and family who, under the ACHA, could lose coverage thanks to “giving themselves” type 1 diabetes, injuries after being hit by a drunk driver, depression, ADHD,…

I don’t really agree with your fundamental premise that certain names are inherently tacky (I mean, if you name your kid “Summer’s Eve McDouche” or something, yes, that would be tacky, but I’m assuming we’re talking about names that aren’t completely outside the norm here), but I’m absolutely baffled by the “no hard E…

Yup. “Vitiligo is sexy” is not the most ideal stepping stone to “vitiligo is not some terrible freakish thing, and it’s not okay to stare at or mock someone for having vitiligo,” but any stepping stone is better than none. If having the hots for Winnie Harlow convinces someone not to treat other people with vitiligo…

Your story just made me like him more, because my first thought when I see a tall man in the front row NOT standing up at a concert is less “That guy sucks” and more “That guy may actually be the sort of rare, wonderful human being who thinks the people behind him deserve to be able to see the show, too!”