Dude, you went on a whole tangent about M and how maybe it should be included in the umbrella, and it gives you some insight. You clearly understand very little about what it’s like to be gay and you need to back off with that. Having some random people insult you, or hit on you, does not mean you get it. And is your…

Haha that’s fair. In any case I try very hard to never label other people because labels can be such a personal thing. I think it’s important for us to have an umbrella term too that most people can broadly agree on, but LGBTQ is still working ok at the moment. Seems like you’re not the only one to have problems with…

Let me start by saying the Q in LGBTQ is more typically to represent “queer”, though I have occasionally also heard it used to represent questioning. Queer is certainly a more commonly claimed label than questioning. And in the sense of someone feeling themselves included under the term questioning, I would tend to…

Hmm, moving terms from medical/academic usage to common usage is often a problem because it ends up sounding like a diagnosis.

Ugh, really? Noted.

Whoa, sorry about that. I didn’t realize people were so opposed to it. You’re obviously not obligated to share why the term feels offensive, but I’d love to hear your perspective if you want to elaborate.

I do tend to think Brad Pitt at least knows better. We’ll see.

LGBTQ still mostly covers everything. I think all the people I know who identify as pansexual also feel comfortable labeling themselves queer, and the same goes for a lot of the smaller sexual minorities. That said, I did recently hear of a new(ish?) term GSM for Gender and Sexual Minorities which I thought was a…

I feel like with Inglorious Basterds and Django, the whole point was this fantasy of murdering the bad guys from history (in a bloody, graphic fashion). So the more I read this thread, the more I’m thinking the plot is going to be some fantasy where Tate is not murdered, and maybe instead kills Manson? I feel like…

Can confirm this to be true.

Increasing standards for new police (including psych testing to weed out racist assholes on a power trip) is a great start, but it doesn’t go far enough. The existing police force is rotten, through and through. You can demilitarize and promote deescalation but I don’t think that’s going to change the culture. We need…

Oh come on. You’re coming into a conversation of people being judgy on other people’s parenting decisions and being judgy on other people’s parenting decisions.

I tried calling them out on their bullshit multiple times but was just told that I was not being a team player and needed to respect others political opinions.

I see no one claiming abusive moms don’t exist or that they’re not a problem. Only that when a man is abusive, let’s not transfer the blame for his abuse onto his mother. (Not least because research says it’s not the case that abusive moms tend to cause misogynist attitudes in their sons.)

This is a very good analysis.

Sure, I can easily imagine that too. But it wouldn’t have to be them. Honestly I was more picturing that there’s probably a member of the royal staff who does a lot of the day-to-day work with the dogs already.

Edit: I misread your comment as referring to this case but I now realize you were talking about the BA flight where the pilot was nearly sucked out.

due to technology, kids today are more informed and aware of what’s going on in the world than any generation before them

Haha no thank you! I’m already on enough spammy call lists.

Probably because she didn’t dress conservatively enough.