I was pretty appalled and later (she was at work and I didn't want to get into that fight on the phone while she was at work because that would be bitchy) tried to parse out what the hell was going on.

The difficult part for me is that no one was saying anything wrong. For the most part people were sticking with the transwoman's preferred pronoun (I have to forgive occasional slips, especially if it's clear that the speaker is making an effort) but there was something about the tone of the conversation that just…

I'm aware that I'm really lucky no one in my family is like that, but I was struggling with this over the 4th of July when my family (generally good LGBTQ allies though I do call them out for outdated language now and then) was discussing the transition of a transwoman whose daughter was in Girl Scouts with me 20ish…

Wow, now my comments asking for some sort of discourse on the matter are getting dismissed. Super fun. Thanks for the suggestion, I think I'll follow your advice.

I'm going to admit I've been binging on Veronica Mars fan fictions because of all the feels I had after SDCC.

Could very well be. Frankly, I still felt the need to defend that site, even though I haven't been an active user in years. The navigation is terrible and I just can't manage the time suck any more.

Oh my god thank you for finding these! I'm drooling. Positively drooling.

So what's the solution? Shut the entire site down? Why not do the same to 4chan, or Tumblr or Twitter or Facebook or YOUTUBE, who proportionally have the same number of issues if not more? There is no user-generated-content site on the internet that does not include individuals who commit terrible acts in the name…

I specifically said that parts of reddit are good. Unless you didn't actually read and just decided that because I can laud their communities that support good causes while still decrying those who victimize people means that I'm a terrible person and you need to call me out on it? Was that your goal?

Part of the challenge with reddit is the way it's organized. You know how most of the Gawker sites are pretty independent, but there's some userbase overlap? Imagine a place like that but with hundreds of thousands of different sites, each of them unique. Of course there's assholes buried in the hinterlands.

Parts of reddit are actually really awesome. IDing people caught on camera committing crimes, free photo restorations for (there's a YouTube of a British WWII vet getting his enlistment photo back in perfect condition that gets me crying every time), sending pizzas to little girls in cancer wards...there's a lot of…

As I said in my previous comment: "I do not have to respect it [your opinion] (though I do respect you for having it." To make it clearer, I do not respect your opinion. I respect you, because you are a human being and you deserve that much. I do not want to discuss or disseminate your opinion, so I deleted it. I…

I think it might be from Glee? I don't know, I get all my GIFs from Tumblr.

I only learned because the first time I made the mistake the boy I had a crush on (kilted, in a Ramones shirt and combat boots, practicing his bagpipes in a parking lot because he was making too much noise to be inside) rolled his eyes at me. Teenage shame is a powerful weapon, and so is wanting to make out with cute…

Flip the script: if a woman walked over and complimented your car, would you be weirded out? Or just complimented?

If the Doctor or Sherlock explain it, I'm sure people would start paying attention.

Exactly! I learned so much about giving birth by reading this (and me being going to school for anthropology and taking a lot of human sex and sexuality classes...I'm surprised there's stuff I have yet to learn about pooping out babies) and have even more firmly solidified my desire never to do it myself.

I'm so insanely happy that no one jumped on you that I'm actually smiling at my desk like a loony person. Yay for real conversations!

Exactly my sentiments!

I'm dismissing your comments because I don't have the time or energy to have this conversation (again) for the THIRD time this week and it's only Tuesday. While I appreciate that you hold an opinion that is different than mine, I do not have to engage, I do not have to respect it (though I do respect you for having…