This is exactly the point that struck me. For Rowling, a “good” trans person who might be her friend is one who blames their transness on some combination of social ills and mental illness. A “bad” trans person is one who is sees nothing wrong with being trans, and who is generally happy with themself.

I doubt that most political lesbians would be straight if they had different “politics.” A more generous reading of political lesbians would be that if they had no philosophical worldview, most of them would be either:

I’d love to think that CBS has learned its lesson after several high profile sexual harassment scandals, but I have to question whether this firing would have happened if (one of) the target(s) of the harassment weren’t dating a CBS executive.

*Huey Lewis’ character in Duets hangs his head in shame.*

You’ll get over the shame in 20 years when it that limited edition sells for $15,000.

There’s a reason that KFaR made an appearance at all of my junior high’s dances.

I’m trying to figure out the timeline for the first letter. Did the LW’s partner know about his coworker’s lust for him before they exchanged numbers? Because if so, no man with even a shred of good judgement gives his phone number to an unhappily married woman who has expressed interest in him when he has no interest…

Most of the alcoholics I know who are in AA aren’t religious people. Most of the alcoholics I know who aren’t in AA are dead.

In addition to being a rapist, Rhett is also a racist and a murderer. At one point in the book, he’s arrested for killing a black man. After he gets out of jail, he freely admits to Scarlett that he’s guilty and that his victim deserved what he got because he was “uppity to a lady.” So while Rhett isn’t technically a…

But . . . but she totally has one trans friend. And she’s *spoken* to other trans people.

Ah, yes. Because being trans can be “fixed” by a few good books. Or is the argument that all sorts of people who aren’t really trans are going through medical transitions because the doctors treating them don’t bother to ask the relevant questions?

Amen. Her fit about trans people being able to confirm their gender by filing paperwork with the government doesn’t help either. What kind of attacker goes to stand in line at a government office to fake a gender identity change before he attacks someone? What is the advantage? Is the law going to go easier on him…

Criminal Minds has its good points. I always appreciated the fact that all of the exposure to serial killers and the stress of searching for victims and getting kidnapped and whatnot actually seemed to take a toll on the characters rather than simply providing dramatic obstacles for them to overcome in an episode’s…

Some of the most anxious men that I know are also some of the biggest horror movie fans. My read is that those men are using the movies as a way to confront their fears in a safe environment. It doesn’t strike me as at all strange that women have a similar relationship to media that largely depicts female-centric…

For sure. When people say “your generation didn’t invent sex,” they’re absolutely right. Sexually, there’s truly nothing new under the sun.

Having a look does help. All of those Richard Spenser-brand Nazis who were marching around Charlottesville may look like extras from the set of Pleasantville, but I think that even that look is better for their cause than if they just showed up in random t-shirts and such.

Supposedly, it was one wealthy pervert who wanted to collect stories about a variety of sexual acts/ situations. The earlier stories are painful to read. They’re exercises in box checking (Lesbian sex? Check. Incest? Check. With more than one family member? Check. Necrophilia? Check.), and their only appeal seems to…

I assume that Seinfeld had something to do with it. If a show that declared itself to be about five awful human beings (Including a woman. To be fair, many of the women on sitcoms are terrible, too.) could do it, why not every other sitcom out there? The other factors are the prevention of Full House Syndrome and the…

And thank God for that. Any cheesy ‘80s movie worth its salt needs a Kenny Loggins track. Top Gun without Danger Zone would be about 20% less awesome.

Yep. Especially since in her line of work, she surely gets hit on by a new crop of arrogant 20-somethings every nine weeks or so.