I agree that she’s a cut above a lot of the rest- I guess I personally have a lot of friends who try and demand my respect for Taylor, as if she’s uniquely talented, just because she writes more than Rihanna or Katy Perry. I find that attitude insulting to all of the other female musicians in the world who have been…

See, this is where I differ from Taylor’s fans. She writes her own songs, fairly poorly, she sings in a thin reedy voice, and she’s attained a basic level of musicianship. Her fans are free to love her, but I hate it when ‘but she does it all herself!’ gets trotted out as a reason I should be impressed, even if I…

Much of the government was founded on the very principle of dominating black individuals. The nation was figuratively and literally built on the backs of black (and native american) slaves. The path to national acceptance for many demographics that once faced discrimination (Irish) was predicated on black antipathy.…

Conversations with Kristen Stewart would make a great SNL skit or youtube video! But she’s always tried to be a private person. It’s not just this relationship that she’s refused to talk about and I think that’s good. It’s good for her to set boundaries. Some people like to gush about their loves, some people love…

Nice deflection of the double standard. Reddit has no journalistic standards, isn’t that the talk around here? GM is supposed to be the standard bearer of everything that’s good and noble. You show the Lenny Kravitz peen show, you forgo your right to be enraged about a slideshow of yet another female celebrities…

Judging from the appr. 500 Lenny Kravitz peen posts on jezebel so far, I’m really looking forward to your reaction about the next female celebrity wardrobe malfunction. I bet you will report in all detail and not scold the internet for posting pics, gifs and slo mo videos of boobs and coochies and you sure as hell…

And there’s is of the very few queer people who actually see any real change either. The gay rights movement is represented by white cis men and so we get the rights they want - to marry and have support for their partners from HR and the like. Those are great things, but trans people, butch lesbians, femmy men, all…

How exactly does her being relegated to a minor side line role change the fact that they gave credit for her role to the white dude? It makes it worse, imo. Everyone knows that trans people, lesbians and POC were the spearheads of this uprising, yet they invented a white cis guy instead of tell the truth. If she’s in…

This gets at the ugly truth that no one wants to talk about: Why have LGBT rights come so far, so fast in America? Because middle/upper class white men are the faces of the movement.

Well there you go. A Black lesbian threw the first punch and a Black trans woman threw the first object. I stand by my statement that Marsha threw the first object, but it seems there is more to the story. There always is, isn’t there? :)

So? You said yourself that the writer, director, and producer are all gay men. Shouldn’t they portray this accurately, to the best of their ability? I get that they’re not going to please everyone, but to take such a symbolic act (the throwing of the first brick) away from Marsha P. Johnson, a black trans woman who…

Yes. It’s entirely possible for the cis, white gay men who produced, directed, and wrote this move to have bias towards trans people of color, specifically trans women of color. It’s entirely possible that they wanted to frame this event in a way that makes a cis white gay man seem like the hero, not only because it…

I didn’t say he wasn’t. The point of it is that the real Ray Castro wasn’t even trans. It looks like they’ve fictionalized him and made him an amalgam for all the trans women of color that were so integral to the riots. It’s fine and dandy that he’s Puerto Rican. I’m not disputing that that makes him more diverse than…

1.) There are trans actors who would gladly and more accurately portray the role.