I still can’t hold my pencil the right way, and I’m a pretty good artist.

Does he do anything artistic now? I worry my artistic son will give it up , he’s pretty amazing. But our school art teacher is a crusher of imaginations.

TBH, I’m havinh my own close call this weekend as well. Shit with my ex and our son nearly drove me to the edge. My son refuses to talk with me, and his dad is encouraging it. After a long argument, I hung up the phone and sat there looking at the bottle of pills. Called my dad for support with dealing with my ex. He…

I am amazed at the amount of similarity I share with you, only my little feminist to be is turning 2 in A few days. And I couldn’t agree with you more. Only you said what I was thinking much more eloquently than I could have at this hour. Thank you!

This is the kind of statement that moves me further away from the feminist movement. I’m male, a feminist, son of feminist parents, husband to a feminist, father of a 20 mo feminist-to-be. Yet every article here, every posting on NARAL and PP’s fb, ig, twitter, are loaded with comments from women who condemn all men…

I understand the instinct to say such a thing; as a black guy, when I hear about some white police officer having killed yet *another* unarmed black person and then hear a bunch of random white people blame the dead person, I want to say, “most white people are like this, whether they realize it or not.” But it’s not…

I love this drawing.

That’s what makes me so mad about the way Hollywood talks about the “bravery” of these roles—it’s not, it’s a resume builder.

The first one was not likely done by a five-year-old without significant assistance. The fine motor control is too great. The second picture is more in line with the developmental age.

Good for a giggle:

Pencil outline drawn over in marker pen then erased is still visible - methinks the kiddo was given a template drawing to start with.

Yeah, that is a very nice and almost Picassoesque forge. I have an almost six year old and I like his pictures but NFW. He drew this a month or two ago and I love it.

You may be right — and, honestly, you know best, given the degree of familiarity you have with your kiddo.

It almost seems like the teacher drew the right eye, lashes and brow for the child to mimic on the left.

It isn’t enough that the movie is sincere — after all, “Glen or Glenda” was sincere too. What matters is whether the movie really is a movie worth watching, because that’s how it makes it worthwhile in its exploitation of the media’s current interest in transgender topics. And whether it is actually telling the story…

Exactly! These movies are enfuriating in how hypocritical their casting is and how they are praised during awards season. You are not being brave playing a minority in a movie that you are clearly using to advance your career—maybe if you did this 40 years ago. Hollywood is trash.

They gotta stop with the casting of Cis Gender actors in roles about people of different genders. It’s not like there aren’t transgender actors out there who could play the roles. It always comes off really bad when they give a straight person an award for “how brave of a performance they gave.”

And for a statement that will NOT get me upvotes: I’m skipping this movie because it looks like dull, insincere Oscar bait - if they’d actually cared about making a statement they’d have cast a trans actor - and because I don’t like Tom Hooper OR Eddie Redmayne. But this comments section almost makes me want to sit…

This shit looks so desperate for attention and prestige...the worst kind of film in my book, because they lack self awareness and are pretentious as fuck. What’s most enfuriating is that they couldn’t employ the many Transgender actors and artists out there to play the lead. Whenever I see a movie like this come out…

I don’t think the “wasting money” argument works so well on a website dedicated to reporting on a multibillion dollar industry that revolves mostly around grown men playing games.