If by “putting him in timeout” means throwing him in the one of the Capitol Building dumpsters, I agree.

To start, in modern America, a state with roughly 500,000 people should not have the same representation as a state with roughly 40,000,000. Think about the amount of influence that the average WY voter has over the Senate compared to that of the average CA voter. The Senate has always been used to protect the…

Republicans will not hesitate a millisecond to get rid of the filibuster (for stuff they haven’t already gotten rid of it for) as soon as it benefits them.

Consent should not be an issue in this specific case as these images are and have been placed on social media, but I’m sure an argument can be made for it, but it would be weak.

From the articles by Rich that I’ve seen - I’m thinking particularly of some of his comments about consent issues in the past - it seems that his motivation is just: But If We Do It It’s OK. Or more specifically: gay people must not be criticised, especially by other gay people, because the “gay community” (i.e.…

wtf is this?

“Performatively academic” is the best description of Rich I’ve ever read. Thank you. The way in which he has been elevated to Gay Men spokesperson on this site over the past few years is infuriating. I’m a gay man too, and superficially similar to Rich in many ways - white, reside in a large city, etc - but his…

I’m also team no one. However the fact that these people were (are?) posting their exploits on social media means they are snitching on themselves!

Naming and shaming does work, which is why Gaysovercovid is a “success” in turning many of the men depicted into pariahs, who might lose their friends, family, or jobs. At the end of the day, humans are social creatures, so if the consequence of their callous travels during this most dark of times is being cast out…

Yeah, I think about that whenever I reference her- and after she was quarantined she still went back and started serving people again and got more people sick. And *she* just wanted to earn a living off of what she was good at as a carrier of a disease that was incurable at the time, not party with her friends because…

These people chose to post pictures of these events. They 100% did it to themselves. Literally they just had to not post pictures of it to avoid scrutiny because no one would know. Well unless they’re in a country where people get fined or arrested for doing these things then we’d know if they got caught. Is Rich…

Typhoid Mary was forcibly quarantined because she refused to change her behaviors that were getting people sick and killing them. If only we shamed these Covid plague rats as much.

Yeah. I mean, I have friends who are like “I feel so bad, but... I met up with 2 friends last night and we played a board game. I feel so guilty.” and I’m not going to shame them for that. I’m also not going to equate that with people travelling internationally to attend a crowded event, which I will shame.

Haha I was thinking that, I kept reading it trying to understand what the problem was. People were being identified? Or “shamed” for being a Typhoid Mary? Like I can’t tell if the point of this article is just that you shouldn’t be mean to people just because they’re putting their lives and the lives of others at risk…

I read this and immediately thought... “White Affluent Gay” says what?

This is not a report, this is not an article, this is an opinion piece that seems to be excusing and apologizing for all the affluent (mostly white) gays that have been learning about accountability in real time. While vilifying and gaslighting the…

Fuck, Rich. Just stay home. 

Yeah. I mean, if straight people were like “Gross, gays are partying." I'd be like "Go mind your own weddings and bars." but I don't think that gay people pointing out other gay people acting irresponsibly is actually homophobia or something.

Yeah, I’m not really sure who this article is for. If shame doesn’t work, then shaming the shamers also doesn’t work.

tl;dr there are good people on both sides

I’m guessing a photo of Rich partying showed up on the account?