Good for you!

They mean she’ll be in prison.

I’m so disappointed that I’m not eligible.

So long forgotten that apparently you don’t remember that it was used to refer to Jews, not the Irish! See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sheeny

If it was good enough for the basement of the Lubyanka prison, it’s good enough for me.

My grandmother, who was born in Syracuse NY in 1888, lived until I was 13. It was amazing to me as a child to listen to her talk about remembering a world before automobiles, and not even having a telephone in the house growing up — never mind airplanes and radios and TVs and so on.

The family of the mother of a good friend of mine came from Vinnitsa. The ones who didn’t come over here were all wiped out in the Shoah. My ex-spouse’s father’s family came from Chudnov and Romanov, two other towns which, like Vinnitsa, weren’t that far from Zhitomir. My family, on the other hand, all came from…

She was 65 when that photo was taken. Sonya Kalish was her name. Born on the way to America from Tulchyn near Vinnitsa in Ukraine. Grew up in Hartford. One of the many Jewish women who were successful in vaudeville. Which is probably why I’ve heard of her.

Sort of like Judy Garland at the same age — the famous photo in Hollywood Babylon.

The rumor about Richard Gere and gerbils predates the Internet by a very long time — I think I first heard it in the late 70s or early 80s.

Best example: Ramona Singer on Real Housewives of NYC

Voice telling him to burn things? Like the one Ralph hears in the sandbox?

But “actual or perceived” religion is clearly not “immutable.” If immutability were a requirement, then it could be argued that an attack on a Muslim woman perceived as such because her head is covered isn’t really a hate crime, because all she’d theoretically have to do to avoid the perception that she’s Muslim is…

You forgot my example of religion.

I agree with you about this law, but a fixed, immutable identity is clearly not a necessary attribute for a class to be protected by hate crimes legislation. The obvious example is religion, which is universally enumerated in such legislation. Nor should being “born this way” be required for sexual orientation, gender…

I agree with you. If two gay men want to use that word with each other, fine. But not as a slur against someone else. If they can reclaim it, it’s only for themselves, not as to anyone else. Similarly, if a trans woman wants to think of herself as a tr—-y, that’s fine. But it’s not up to her to call another trans…

Didn’t she assault a flight attendant though?

She sure gets a lot of hearts for those comments.

Amazing how she thinks it’s OK for her to call gay men (and anyone else) “faggots” because she’s a bisexual woman. It doesn’t work that way. That word isn’t for her to reclaim.

There were about 100 students per class when I was at Horace Mann in the 1970s. I think the total number of teachers (plus the headmaster, R. Inslee “Inky” Clark) who have been exposed as sexual abusers was at least 15-20 over a 30 year period, most with multiple victims. Perhaps the percentage of the total number of…