they have zero sexual chemistry. more brother/sister energy. as noted by others, this is the weakest part of abbott.

Count me among those who was hoping for a “they just end up being good friends” relationship, but it does not look like they are going that way. I do appreciate that no one is skirting around the issue (everyone knows) and that they had the interaction at the club, but overall it seems like most will they/wont they…

The Janine and Gregory plotline is the weakest part of Abbott Elementary for me.

I think it’s important to actively acknowledge how fucking awful they are, and how much worse their shit makes people.

Homophobes used to use that argument too. “I don’t hate gays, I just disagree with homosexuality.” How do you “disagree” with who a person is?

She went down a rabbit hole and devolved into a hateful shitbag.

Race is a social construct. The differences between white people and people of color revolve primarily around the fact that white people have power in Western society that people of color don’t. There are no genetic distinctions among people of different races; the differences are literally skin-deep, and yet that’s…

The term trans ideology is where I checked out.  That's a term people like Helen Joyce fucking love, and there's nothing ideological about the assigned gender at birth not matching the preferred gender.

Absolutely true. 1000 words of nonsense to say that trans people are responsible for nice lady Rowling’s bigotry doesn’t make you eloquent and right, it makes you verbose and wrong.

THANK YOU. I fucking hate the take that the people fighting for their rights as trans folk are to blame for Rowling’s transphobia. Rowling is full grown educated woman. She’s responsible for her own beliefs, not the people she victimizes. 

You’re laying the blame of oppression at the feet of the oppressed, there’s nothing thoughtful about reaching that conclusion.

“If a trans person honestly tells you they’re a man or woman, then accept it. Accept them.” works as simply as the statement is.

The guy who wrote the game and served as lead designer for most of its production is named Troy Leavitt. He is a known neo-nazi youtuber. Big surprise that he wrote a story where Jewish analogue characters are the bad guys and need to be put in their place.

All this talk and it still just boils down to the oldest excuse in the book: “Maybe if this minority group had shut up and never stood up for themselves, people wouldn’t hate them.” Victim blaming is so damn lazy. Do better.

You have some points about the average person not engaging with culture war shit, but using the term TRA is fucking stupid cause only transphobes use that, and jkr has become a transphobe first and foremost as part of her identity. It’s her personality to be transphobic now. I don’t think there’s a point anyone could…

Counterpoint: If a trans person honestly tells you they’re a man or woman, then accept it. Accept them.

The roots of Rowling’s transphobia are pretty clear, actually. She’s said before that if transitioning had been an option for her as a kid, she’s afraid she would have taken it, because being a woman seemed like such a raw deal.

That’s pretty much it. Being a woman is so awful, so dangerous, in Britain that women like…

Of course the performatively centrist take still lands on the side that trans people and supporters are the problem. Weird how that always happens.

Yes, yes, conservatives don’t care at all about other people or what they think BUT HOW DARE YOU JUDGE THEM OR CRITICIZE THEM IN ANY WAY.

So, your standard for not being a transphobe is “wrote a gay character who didn’t groom his students.” Sounds about right.