Ugh, this hurts my head. I try to be forgiving and understanding, to maybe hope she was just forced into it or just too dumb to notice how she was being used. But no my dear Sarah Sanders working and actively covering for a group of people who literally dismantle the very systems put in place to help women and others…

I was lonely after several crappy months of recovering from a failed relationship and crawled back to Facebook when something I use affiliated with them forced me back and later joined a local social group which has been nice. But this dating thing better be super duper opt in only, as I deleted my Tinder and okCupid…

Sorry, but without some validation method I only see this as something for married couples in need of an alternate form of BC. Though I admit I am saying this as a disinterested outsider in these matters (beyond how it affects my male loving girl friends) even still I have zero sympathy for men complaining about…

They should really inform president Trump of this dire threat to our children right now! He can defend us from those big scary books... he knows all the the biggest words! I hear they have the Little Golden Book people on call to help with his daily briefs. They can help too!

I find myself bone tired of the…

As a gen-x transwoman who identifies as a lesbian mostly because it requires less explanation, ends some conversations I would rather not have, and it is the sexual identity term in closest alignment to how I see myself though I remain guarded in its use as I know others flatly reject me or use my attractions to…

It is a strange thing this #boymom stuff. I have a boy and a girl in my life and I found my son was verbal earlier than most and has always been emotionally intelligent and sensitive and feel like the word “bully” was a staple in our lives far sooner than I would have liked. It is a bit depressing seeing him pushed to…

Wow, nostalgia! A TGIFriday I don’t think have been in one since the way early 90s just before I was old enough to drink... I have always found the fawning over rich and/or famous people an interesting social behavior and have wondered how much that effect emotionally and socially impacts the person. But maybe that is…

I dated someone who had a death metal, horror, and true crime fascination. I have struggled with a sort of “functional depression” for a very long time and would watch the sanitized and less intense crime dramas in my prior relationship but mostly avoided the true crime and horror stuff. Later I found as I worked to…

Okay, I get it for many the “male gaze” is a part of the mental arithmetic that goes into their clothing decisions. And that in the old days of mall store power and branding one could appear as a more desirable brand by focusing on essentially making clothes for these “idealized women” you put in your catalogs... I…

Yes! Because while retention policies do help keep storage use lower they really are about limiting exposure to damaging conversations. The harder part is capturing the often more damaging “chat histories” in a format that is acceptable.

From what I can tell in my limited personal experience, there is a reason for the “u-haul” trope. (Even for myself at 49, divorced after twenty years because I came out and with custody of two young kids, recovering from a painful rebound relationship and nervous AF to be dating again and thus trying to be very…

I think like others have said it is only making a call back to iconic design elements used by them and is very much not in the same “market” and different enough to not be confusing to a consumer and because it is a historical work I doubt they have a leg to stand on as far as defamation, or somehow doing damage to…

This old saw.... let us be absolutely clear the real reason she wanted to play it was for “the challenge” not because she cared about the person she was portraying, every damn time a cisgender actor/tress plays a transgender role there is this whole discussion about the “challenge” and not about the character or the…

Meh... I understand their point and I would love something truly evocative beyond the tragic transgender woman coming of age story. But I also need something coherent and this seems a bit like why I stopped going to transgender support groups. At some point it does get hurtfully repetitive as those who continue to go…

I agree with you, transgender men tend to not get as much attention in the public forum. What I would be curious about is if it is lack of hunger outside the transgender community for their narrative or something more a part of the tans-masculine culture that tends to be more quiet. For a time my social circle was…

I have always felt that the criminalization of sex work and drug use was just rich people trying to erase the people they crush under their boots using a thin veneer of morality. Like a senator calling for the banning of porn which sounds to my ears more like a thinly veiled plea for help from a porn addict.
But I reall…

I don’t like to belittle others beliefs but every time I see bits of this Goop thing it just reminds me of the garbage the Anti-Vax Inc. scammers push at parents after they have fear mongered them into a never ending series of useless to dangerous “all natural” “preventions and cures” to actual conditions that could…

When I see sort of thing I am happy for the occasional bit of good news. And sometimes I wonder how different my life would be as a teen today versus the 1980s, and would teen me be able to come out today. But I worry, I don’t mean to “bite the hand” but you learn quickly there is a huge difference between people who…

Haha, thank you... I find myself in a strange place with all of this. As a recently “post-op transwoman” I find myself clinging to my “tomboy” like some security blanket as I never really think of myself as attractive or put thought into anything related to “girly”, “sexy”, or “the appearance of” and myself. I mean I a…

You have apparently misread me, I clearly stated I don’t know the details. I was only trying to indicate my opinion that from the limited details here that pulling a gun seemed a unwarranted escalation and that charging the mom with manslaughter seemed a bit of a stretch. Endangerment sure.... But I again I don’t see…