There were at least five comments in this thread stating some variation of “this story is true, and therefore cannot be critiqued on representation because a fat person wrote it,” and I am attempting to point out that it is not, in fact, the author’s personal story (which many comments seemed to hinge on), though the…

Except the quoted statement literally says it was NOT about his experience, but about the imagined experience of someone who didn’t have the support system he had.

“Restorative justice” is literally about offenders reconciling with their victims being welcomed back into the community while doing what they can to make amends, which is literally what Tyson refuses to do. Okay, he did his time under our shitty non-restorative system and your opinion is that’s good enough; I don’t…

If a black person commits a crime is it okay to call them the n-word? No, because the slur is not related to the crime in any way and just demonstrates racism. So if Ezra Miller commits a crime is it okay to misgender them? No, because the misgendering has nothing to do with the crime and just demonstrates…

I feel bad leaving this hanging for so long! I don’t have a super crisp response, of course.

1) You still seem to be saying that two spirit (nizh manitoag), and non-binary identities, identity is invalid, or less valid, than binary trans identity because they are new or don’t have concrete “cross cultural” validity. I am saying that non-binary identity does not have to have deep historical and cross-cultural…

Wait, why are we leaving that “indigenous [sic] third-gender/two spirit stuff at home?” Why are we leaving non-binary people out of the conversation entirely? Just because it’s hard?

Babygirl you *know* you can just italicize shit right

I don’t know where this guy is coming from exactly, but there is a substantial group of people who think that “homophobia,” “transphobia,” “islamophobia,” etc. are, in fact, crap descriptors of anti-trans hate, anti-LGB hate, and anti-Islamic hate, because there is a history of using -phobia as a legal defense in…

Right? So weird that the filmmakers did that, and somehow even weirder than none of the “reporting” mentions it. The doc made a huge impression on me when I saw it in theaters, and when I re-watched it a year or two ago I was like “wow, half of Drag Race’s jokes come from Tammy Faye Bakker.”

Journalism? Interviews, questions, that kind of thing?

I gave you a star for bringing this up even though you called this error “minor.” “54-40 or fight!” is a legitimate slogan. “50-40 or fight!” has no rhythm whatsoever.

Jenkies!

The thing about outhouses is, there are definitely spiders down there but what are you going to do about it? Better not to see.

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/02/photos-preparing-for-yardi-gras-in-new-orleans/617978/

Legit y’all want me to click through a slideshow that is just a bunch text links to twit pics

Indigenous women are a quarter of missing women, but also go missing at more than three times the rate of white women. My personal context on MMIWG is based in Canada and maybe it’s not famous enough in (white) Montana to count - although for Blackfoot/Blackfeet people, whose territory bridges Alberta and Montana, the…

Since nobody else has stepped up to say it, I will. Omar’s waistband was too loose to hold the gun, so he left it at home. This fuels the whole point of the scene!

Heh. Aenys.

Bitch, it’s PROPORTIONALIZING.