Thank you. And yeah that pretty much sums it up. It’s just so fucked up that situations like Britney’s, where there was clearly an abuse of power, can happen, but also that there are so many situations where there is literally nothing families can do, legally, while their ill relatives aren’t taking care of themselves…

I think no one has wanted to because it would just make things more complicated for the kids, or they could end up in foster care or get sent to live with their dad’s mom who’s younger than my cousin’s mom but also a total psycho. The school is some weird small private hippie school that wouldn’t call either they just…

I don’t think she’s representative at all, starting with the amount of money in that family that even made it possible for them to hire lawyers and pursue a conservatorship in the first place. Most disabled people and their families are in a situation where they can’t find the resources to pay for the care they need. 

I don’t think Britney Spears is necessarily a good example. Yes, she had her rights taken away by a shitty family and it’s terrifying that they could decide if she’s allowed to have kids or not but she’s also worth millions and millions of dollars so even if she is so mentally ill that she couldn’t reasonably take…

That’s where Kris Jenner’s talents come in. She capitalized on a sex tape that dropped right in the context/zeitgeist where celebrity or celebrity-adjacent (which is what Kim was at the time, from her family association with OJ and her friendship with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie) sex tapes were all the rage. That…

I do agree with you on the principle. I think instead of trying to shoehorn our modern understanding of gender into an outdated M-F binary that was created to include only cis men and cis women, and that no longer reflects society, we should be looking at it from another angle: how do we improve sports categories to…

I think that’s just the morbid curiosity we all have about a celebrity sex tape, plus Kris Jenner’s pimping - I mean PR and marketing - skills. Not because the tape (and the sex) itself is actually any good.

That first tape was the most boring tape ever and Kim is the worst actress/faker in the world, if it exists I can only imagine how boring this second tape is if even Kris Jenner didn’t see any point in trying to make money off it, and you know she would have if she could. 

I tried watching that but his acting and character wasn’t enough to save it it and it just reminded me why I never liked Lindy West’s writing. But then I love Dan savage and his sense of humour and his directness and I never understood Lindy West’s obsession with hating him.

hahahahaha Omg thank you for that. Gold. 

I mean, aside from the anti-semitism of the comment, he is an absolute fucking moron. Does he actually think Jews were allowed to hide during WWII or that it was easy to hole up in a building for years at a time or cross into Switzerland? If it were so easy 6 million people wouldn’t have let themselves get killed. 

It’s funny how turns of phrase or opinions can remind us about sometone. I’ve seen comments online that could have been written by my father who’s been dead almost 20 years. But I think you might be misunderstanding me, which I can see how “I don’t give a shit” might do that lol. I’m not saying jokes can’t hurt, or…

I love him soooooo much and Hedwig will forever be one of my favourite movies. I wish this interview had been longer. This made me love him even more, as did his comments about younger people today and their rigidity about labels. Especially in art. You can’t be a good artist - or even truly appreciate art - if you’re…

Yeah I get that, I guess I just don’t give a shit what people joke about, because to me a joke is not the same as whatever the joke is about. Plus, everything can be a joke, even if some people hate it. 

Um, because it’s just a joke? You’re free to laugh or not but there is no reason why it wouldn’t make it into the final cut. 

I fucking love Damon Albarn and he can run circles around Swiftie talent-wise and is basically a fucking genius but he didn’t have to be such a cunt about it. Plus, it’s not true, Swift can most definitely write her own songs even if I’d rather slit my veins than listen to them.

It’s not worth engaging with them. I suck at remembering names so I replied to them not realising they were the same dogmatic/irrational asshole I’ve told myself repeatedly not to engage with. And it’s not just this issue, they’re like that about everything. Don’t waste your time. 

Were you trying to illustrate JPlum’s point about both sides being irrational and ignoring science? Because it’s spot on.

Wouldn’t it also fuck up your credit score? 

The problem is we have bad actors (i.e. republicans) who just hate transpeople, and so our reaction (‘our’ being people who don’t hate transpeople) is to uncritically come out against everything they say. And that means we don’t actually evaluate anything by any rubrik other than ‘are we being nice?’