It doesn’t just refer to coming out later in life, it relies on the stereotype that all gay men are hypersexual at some point after coming out, and also that promiscuity/hypersexuality prevents someone from being good at or focused on their job.

Nevermind the current arguments that Kamala Harris isn’t black enough.

Heterosexist is the word I’ve heard used as the racist equivelant. It’s not a perfect word, but it functions.

The argument that he can’t be homophobic, he’s gay himself is... bizarre. Internalized homophobia is a thing. Whether you want to call it homophobic or not, it was shitty regardless.

No notable accomplishments *in governance.* That’s what I wanna see. What have you done and for whom and how effective was it.

What are you even talking about - Clinton was a governor, Obama was a senator.

AOC isn’t running for president. She’s representing a district. AKA, getting experience and a national profile and doing good work in a branch of the government that desperately, desperately needs it. A lot of these folks who are running for the democratic nomination right now would do far better for their country if…

Funnily the royals aren’t really supported by british tax payers, either... it’s an amount from taxes that’s so small it’s negligable. They bring in far, far more money via tourism than they use from public coffers.

I don’t know about that but I do know that men are often given raises when they become fathers, women get no such perk.

It’s such a shame - and this presents the flipside of something I posted in response to another comment. I truly think that the focus on breastfeeding as end all be all good parenting has directly contributed to the problem with division of labor. And here we see the negative effect on men, because you actively wanted…

This is a huge thing. Breastfeeding, while a totally valid choice, absolutely contributes to the childcare labor gap - because if you’re responsible for the entire lifesource of the child for it’s first months or years of life, you just kind of fall into being responsible for everything else too. Bottle feeding -…

I was a sophomore in high school when Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (the book) came out. My fam always went to midnight release parties for the books and bought two copies. My brother would read one, my mom would read one, then my twin and I would get our turn. My mom was a real quick reader, she usually…

I was so pissed off at the first episode with the lady who just genuinely hates doing laundry so paid someone to do it, and her husband insisted that it was a waste of money but he wasn’t doing any laundry himself. If doing your own laundry doesn’t *spark joy* and you can afford to have someone help, why fucking not?

Never mind that formula is a perfectly valid choice whether you have difficulty breastfeeding or not. It’s hard to do legitimate studies on breastfeeding vs formula because it would be unethical to tell women how to feed their child, but the studies on breastfeeding that do exist reveal that the supposed glorious…

I used be an all day erry day devoted high heel wearer - I still wear them more frequently than most 30+ women I know, but yeah, I cannot and will not do all day, every single day. Not anymore. Forget my feet, my back can’t take it.

What pisses me off is when people don’t understand that other countries have sane system where people are paid properly and get pissed at tourists for not understanding the nuances of the American system. Someone on this website called me a garbage person who he felt no further need to engage with when I suggested…

It’s “if you can’t afford to pay your staff, you can’t afford to be in business” not “if you can’t afford to tip, you can’t afford to go out.” I do tip minimum 20% at restaurants, and I’m not naive so I’m aware that stiffing the server on the tip isn’t going to hurt the employer or make the industry change. That…

I think this is where I get annoyed... I remember back in the days of behind closed ovens people arguing against doing away with tipping, because people who make good tips do better with that than they would just being paid a straight fair wage. Which is not cool. You can’t ask your customers to continue subsidizing…

Yeah, Two Birds! I haven’t personally been tattooed there but a good friend of mine who’s an artist in the midwest guested there a couple years ago and my twin and their wife got work by her. It’s a great little shop in the greenwood area - woman owned and all female artists. My friend enjoyed guesting there, as well.

Well, what Lee’s family is saying is that after sitting through the entire trial and seeing all the evidence, they ARE certain  that the right person is in jail. People villify them for that, but they do believe it.