My older brother is gay. School was always a torment. He had to switch schools in 5th grade in an attempt to get him away from his tormentors. I have always had immense empathy for him in that regard, kids were so awful that harassing him wasn't enough, those jerks also brought it to me whenever he wasn't nearby.…

letter 1: just tell the guy to back off. you don't owe him any explanation. your secret's safe with us.

I really hate the whole "well gay people should learn to be more tolerant of people who think they are disgusting subhumans!" thing. I think that the man (I don't know any of their names, not rewatching find out) when he very accurately pointed out that LGBT individuals spend their entire lives learning to negotiate…

My mother likes it. Haters gonna hate. Shrug.

Who the fuck are you?

I make a motion to start Dolly Parton facts in the style of Chuck Norris facts. GO!

FACT: Flowers don't bend to face the sunlight. They bend toward whatever direction Dolly Parton is.

FACT: Love of books is called bibliophilia. Love of cats is called ailurophilia. Love of Dolly Parton is called logic.

FACT: Dolly Parton…

I agree that it's interesting but there is something sort of icky about revealing this information about her body which she clearly doesn't want made public. I wouldn't call the post supportive or un-supportive, however it skeeves me a little.

Husband and I are atheists and our kid goes to a church-run preschool. They have a big gay pride flag on their sign and they have never taught anything but love, acceptance, and charity. I agree that the issue here seems to stem from the involvement of the religious leaders, but I wonder if since it seems from the…

My parents, going back about 30 years, raised us kids with the knowledge that girls can do virtually anything boys can do and vice versa. We kids all played dress up, Barbie, cops and robbers, making mud pies, etc. Today, my brothers are all sensitive guys, whom no one would question their "manliness." Of the girls, I…

Oh, the HUMANITY.

The only thing I'm side-eyeing in regard to Romeo's plight is the fact that any child—male or female— owns 100 dresses! And I assure you all that it's a side-eye of jealousy, not judgment...

My nephew used to rock a tutu when he was younger, but he usually accessorized it with a baseball jersey, not heels. He also was a fan of blue nail polish, but never pink, because "pink is for girls".

If this story was about a woman who beat the shit out of a guy who grabbed her leg in the toilet while jerking off, there would be nothing but a chorus of "YOU GO GIRL!!" and other similar platitudes. But because it is a dude, the author finds the whole thing unsettling and probably homophobic.

Touching someone else's leg without consent, under the partition of a bathroom stall, while masturbating? Like, if that's not sexual assault, what the fuck IS?

One of those is an incredibly vague incident from his childhood which—unlike the allegations against Singer, et al—could be interpreted in a number of ways.

Lol Jezebel. You're adorable, trying and failing to be more sensitive to LGBT people.

Agreed. To call this merely a "reaction to being touched by a gay man" is ridiculous and distorts the situation.

Oh my God, okay, it's not just me. I read that part and was like, "whaa?"

I don't care what kind of person touched me against my will while I was trying to use the bathroom - I'm kicking that person's ass just like this guy did. It's not about gay or straight or whatever else. It's about someone touching you and making you feel unsafe.