Why does it not surprise me that people are suddenly scandalized by provocative or inflammatory language by a Biden staffer despite spending the past four years letting Donald Trump say literally whatever the fuck he wants without repercussions or consequences? 

“I apologize for calling these people fuckers. They’re obviously motherfuckers.”

I’m totally cool with an, “I love you and your music but what are you doing”. I think Lizz is talented and ground-breaking and wonderful (while the Kardashians are a scourge) and that’s why this is so disappointing. But Jezebel’s take was, “Leave Lizzo alone”. I mean, of course she can do whatever she wants with her…

I think the theme for today is that any mild disagreement with a celebrity is read as outrage.

If the Kardashians had any other discernible talents, they might not get half the vitriol.

Also, if you really want to cut a rich person? Especially a vain insecure narcissist like Trump? Wish for them to be poor.

I can’t fathom how people still think it’s appropriate to joke about prison rape! But imagine going that extra step and saying “don’t worry, I wasn’t making a ‘phobic joke about gay hanky-panky, I was just openly wishing for someone to get violently raped.” Why would you write that and post it thinking that somehow…

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I have a guy on Reddit telling me that kiddo is not misogynistic. When I said that no one would say that about a man, he accused me of saying that male PhD’s don’t get shit for not being medical doctors. I honestly don’t know how to win this argument outside of my personal experience, but all the misogyny I experience…

Even my dad would only use kiddo as an insult.

I’ve seen idiots defend it because Joe Biden calls her “kiddo” but like... there are things your spouse can call you that other people cannot? 

I call my teenage daughter “kiddo” as a term of endearment. I’ll be sure to have a talk with her tonight that if anyone else does that she has permission to spit in their faces.

Have these people been to a beach? Or a women’s track meet? The fake outrage is strong in the GOP.

I’m pushing 50 and towing 40 on a trailer hitch.  One my parents is dead, and I don’t speak to the living one.  So, anyone who calls me “kiddo” is going to get told real quick I’m not a kid, and they can go fuck themselves.

I hate when people in child care call actual children kiddos.

I care so little about the whole doctor thing that I completely forgot to have PhD put on my last batch of business cards.

OMG this! Anyone calling a grown woman who is not a close friend or relative “kiddo” just better GTFO. Makes him seem extra extra sleazy, which he was accomplishing just fine before throwing “kiddo” into the mix.

It just so highlighted how much he wanted to stress his distain for her and her doctorate having ovaries.

Right?

My mom had bosses do this into her 50s (she’s about to be 60). She is an engineer with TONS of work experience - usually more than her bosses - and was infantilized because she didn’t have a BS as a designer but was doing the work of sr. engineers. She got her degree and then started on her MS. But she won’t…

The kiddo part is what really got me. the rest is just garden variety misogyny but calling someone in their late 60s kiddo is just the worst.