A traitor to the country is a Great American according to Mississippi.

National Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-8255

It’s not just you, I said something similar.

It made me tear up too. The shot of her looking all misty watching her home videos got me.

I am admittedly emotionally fucked up at the moment but the video made me tear up. Granted the settings aren’t everyday but the family vibe was genuine and really sweet.

Who’s joking?

Okay, cool. The treatment of women and minorities in fiction is not worth talking about and is never emblematic of larger issues in the real world. Art should never be scrutinized for what it might tell us about the world we live in.

Um, “Camp MENdleton” sounds like a group for gay Marines, doesn’t it?

They straight up said all games will work between all 3 Xbox consoles. What are you on about?

15 year olds cannot consent to sex. That’s the whole concept behind the laws against statutory rape.

Seriously? He rapes a 15 year old, and your heart goes out to him? There are cases where criminal charges against 16 year olds are appropriate, and this has to be one of them.

Understandable. And I was kidding I'm sure you are good at catan. (No one wants your sheep, though)

I do! Do you realize that children grow up into adults who can then use their fully-functioning adult brains to realize that a lot of what they did when they were children was really stupid? I mean, a lot of kids eat paste, too, but if Mauer up there were defending his love of horking down as much paste as possible,…

It’s also stupid to act like nobody gets hurt by it, or that it’s still OK after the community being slurred finally told you to cut the shit. The kind of male bonding you’re talking about doesn’t require the use of slurs that dehumanize gay people.

I don’t hate gay people! I just like using really deragatory words that imply being gay is equivalent to being an outcast that everyone hates! Why would people think those two things are related at all?!?

I think what you mean is, you miss the days when you would say that and no one would call you an asshole for it.

And the reason this joke will no longer exist is because, more and more, people who used to feel like they couldn’t speak freely about being insulted now feel like they can. They aren’t afraid. They aren’t just going to accept every derogatory joke made at their expense. That’s a good thing. Little by little, everyone…

But it’s remarkable how much some people—Twitter eggs and Facebook uncles who bitch about their freedom of speech being corrupted because other people had the gall to exercise theirs—really want to hang onto their gay jokes.

Ehh. A woman writing this for a male audience carries the advantages of a. a (presumed) lifetime of lived experience with beauty and hygiene products and b. the lack of a huge historical power imbalance in favour of the author.