The only guys I've ever met who use "female" and don't have a purposefully derogatory intent are Marines, because it's part of their usual diction. When I pointed out to my former-Marine husband that the likely history of why it's "female" and not "women" - undoubtedly the relatively recent arrival and unequal…

We all know why they don't want her to speak. She's a little tan for their tastes.

Bisexuality is just so often made less visible through micro-transgressions(and the constant separating into catagories), and even in the lgbt community it happens. Pan people trying to set bis as "others" or somehow more binary/black and white feels to me the same way I felt when both lesbians and straight men…

Well said. The people who think being pan or bi means that you'll sleep with anyone or everyone piss me off. They seem to assume if you aren't 100% straight or 100% gay, you have no standards.

I too would rather see him retire than give up his fucking stupid ass hat. Happy trails partner.

That's just the other massively popular cat game, red-hot lava.

Between Bobby Jindal turning white and John Boehner turning orange President Obama's skin color should be the last thing conservatives are worried about.

The portrait looks like those Pinterest Fails.

Platoon sorta tried? But I totally hear you. This jingoism is deeply disrespectful as long as veterans aren't better supported, and as long as people keep forgetting that it's real people of flesh and blood on both sides.

I'm right there with you. I'm not a vet, but I am the daughter of one. My dad was drafted in Vietnam. He watched his best friend from basic step on a mine, and the only thing they had to send home to his family was his foot in his boot. He did two tours in Iraq, as the commander of a Forward Surgical Team. He had to…

"Who among us, who buy tickets to war movies, would also buy a ticket to the war?"

I'm sorry about your boyfriend. That sounds like an agonizing way to go. I can't fathom what either of you went through.

perfect. this is where i get to go all fox news and say,

So Beyonce's music, which talks about having consensual sex with her husband, and last time I checked that's 100% acceptable in religion, is mental poison, but Ted Nugent, the guy who sings about fucking teenaged girls and becomes a legal guardian to a teenage girl so he could fuck her, is a-ok.

You could be right. Are you thinking some sort of rationalizing here, like "I might be a victim of abuse, but I'm not like those other girls. I was a "good" woman and a "good" victim and therefore what happened to them is not the same thing that happened to me"?

BIDEN: You're articulate, bright and clean. And I'm going to make you the President.

Truth.

The Oscars are just a mess. They reward stereotypes of people of color (African Americans especially). They reward disability porn (the frontrunners this year for both best acting nods played disabled/sick people in the roles, so the message is - if you want an Oscar, play disabled). They reward conventionally…

[...]it's obvious I'm in the minority here.