I can't get very compassionate about the parents either, but there are likely many friends trying to grieve peacefully, and beyond that, people there who did love Leelah and didn't have the opportunity or position to counter her parents wrongminded interventions, and as far as we know, may not have even known about…

Now that's some erasure. Why would those bigots want to discomfort her family, who ostensibly are on their big bigot side? Why is it unimaginable that people who would support trans people would do something like that? There are always zealots on every side.

A much-lighter-though-still-horrifying version of this story happened to me with Nature Valley "CRUMBS EVERYWHERE" bars. Variety, kids. I will speak to the first-time-in-a-week evacuation of shit rivaling the glory of your best orgasm.

Me too, but that isn't gonna happen. I'm sure he'll miss having friends, respect, a platform, and a legacy more than he would miss fancy cars and houses.

I think she's dead on (as she almost always is.) Even if it isn't this year, he will die in disgrace.

There's no way to wrest away his millions in a criminal or public court, but he will die in a cage of his own notoriety, having lost many friends and the uniform respect of the industry. And despite feeling that he…

Even if it's not and never prosecutable, he will and is losing everything. The Coquette laid it out succinctly: http://dearcoquette.com/post/103377184…

It's odd how Downton and especially Julian Fellowes talks so often and leans so heavily on the fact that "their way of life comes to an end" in the period when it's set. There was a huge social revolution between the world wars, but the Herbert family still live at Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey.) Still with butlers,…

The preferred name is clear, and I feel it would be purposely obtuse to use Shiloh, the pronoun is unclear and therefore journos are using "they."

I love how the child psychologist (something) Blair spoke of about that in a few articles I read about this child. She was all "all sorts of exploration is completely normal in children. The best way to know if it's just a phase is to be completely accepting of it."

People worry so damn much if trans people OF ALL…

I also knew tons of girls who self-identified that way as children, for what it's worth.

The article I'd read about it earlier said that "They had asked their parents to let them have a boy's name," which like, cool, form your identity however you feel most comfortable, but Shiloh is not a girl's name, it's a boy beagle's name.

On another note, I google-bombed this subject earlier after hearing about it…

It's just a 20/21st century idea, American "aristocracy" had their fair share of cousin marriages until WWIIish.

Historians also tend to agree that she nothing/very little wrong.

That first response was perhaps needlessly insulting, but the heart of it is the basic advice I see most of my POC friends expressing on the subject of Good White People - that they are not your oracle about how to be a Good White Person, that they don't have to offer anything at all to accompany their expectation…

The glaring contrast between perception and reality is what I found fascinating about MA - because her actually personality is nearly never fascinating. She had impressive grace and capability, certainly, but no frivolity, no wit, no sparkle, none of the things that make for fascinating historical figures and which…

I lost it when I was 15 to the 20-year-old manager of our local American Eagle. It felt aspirational. His name was Randall. I've been skeeved about it for a decade.

Whispers are not newspaper photographs. These people have a skewed idea of what actually damages the monarchy. The toe-sucking thing didn't. Prince Phillip being a dick to Diana sure did. Though, to be fair, Fergie's more recent on-film extortion attempt probably has her in the royal burnbook more than those 20 year…

Instagram needs to up their blocking game. When you block someone on Insty, they basically just cannot see you. You can still go to their profile. You still see their profile name if they like a friend's post. You see all their shit, and Instagram will even suggest that you follow them sometimes (based on your friends…

I think the whole .. thing is very difficult to grasp for people who did not live through it or are too young to remember sequential events. Really, the Cold War has a very loose narrative for digestible history. Because it was pointless and dumb and ended in an especially anti-climactic and surprising way. WWI (and…

An ethnicity is not an elective label. Do you grasp the difference?