You have no idea how research works (or the scientific method, for that matter) so you’re unqualified to have this discussion. The majority of social science research involves self-reported data. That is all.

*sigh* Qualitative researcher here. Self-reported data is still data, and at least peer-reviewed research studies (here, here and here) with controls built into them are more likely to be accurate than your own informal poll (which I find honestly find hard to believe) of your wife’s coworkers in a different industry.…

All along it was Jimmy who wanted his hair tousled.

A quick internet search tells me that not only does United carry way more animals than other airlines, but that United checks dogs and cats and also rabbits and household birds, which most other airlines refuse. They also will transport brachycephalic dog breeds, which most other airlines refuse. So I’m sure that has…

[...] what might “masculine”-leaning affect, mannerisms, and aesthetics look like in the absence of trying to oppress/control?

I have such a different reaction than you do (which is good, b/c that is what art is for). Drag queen performances exhaust me (in a way I know the artist does not intend) because I experience it as being told what being a woman should look like. After a life of being inundated with images of what media/advertisers/men…

I will always love her because Sydney.

Ru’s version of drag isn’t the definitive version of drag any more than McDonald’s is the definitive version of a hamburger. Drag has a rich history in the LGBT community across many different kinds of bodies and identities, and the idea that an art form that is supposed to be subversive and transgressive has a “only…

There are biological women who do drag, and not as kings.

Women like a bad man: “Why do women always go for assholes who treat them badly? Ugh. There’s no point being a nice guy.”

Women don’t like a bad man: “If women were nicer to him he probably wouldn’t have done what he did!”

Maybe so, but as a pregnant person I would say “heavily pregnant” feels apt. With you 100% on that POST BABY BOD garbage, though.

It accurately describes how you feel, though. The days after giving birth is a haze, but the one thing I remember with clarity is how AWESOME it felt to be able to get out of bed like a normal person and not roll out bed like a whale carcass being pushed out to sea

bloggers always review the quality of phone speakers and i’m over here like ‘who the eff ever listens to their phone speakers??”

But they DID hire Lindy West, and for that I am standing on my chair, applauding.

I THINK SO.

I love her disingenuous “Women who criticize other women for dressing hot are seen as criticizing the women themselves. A sad conflation if you think about it, rooted in the idea that who we are what we look like.” Bitch, that’s exactly what it is when women like you (and men too) start your shit. Everything from a…

Claim that shit. Fuck yes. Just like Bitch and that other word.

Oh I agree with you, but I’d be careful about unnecessarily conflating these issues. To your point, I don’t think it’s right for me as a gay man to use terms like bitch or cunt, even though the latter was a lot easier to delete from your vocabulary than the former. But I also don’t jump into the fray when women use…

Black, gay dude here, starting out his rant with the standard disclaimer that none of us are monoliths, people contain mulitudes and whatever else you need to hear to stop you from instinctly responding “not all queers” or some derivative thereof.

THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE ARTICLE IS THAT I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHAT STRAIGHT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT ME AND THE WAY I USE LANGUAGE IN ORDER TO FEEL VALID AND RESPECTED. IF THEIR ALLYSHIP RELIES ON POLICING MY LANGUAGE ITS NOT FUCKING ALLYSHIP