My 26-year old son is in L.A. for vacation and was going to Pride today. I kind of almost had a panic attack when I saw this, combined with thinking about Orlando since I saw what happened at 7 am today.

I was kidding.

But if your honorific (not pronoun, really) were Mexclamation point, President Trump would deport you.

I think the standard wild-card character is actually *. Or sometimes ! But M* and M! would be very hard to pronounce.

People use “you” both for second-person singular and second-person plural — both of them gender-neutral. Somehow, they manage to figure out from context which is intended. I’m sure that people will learn to figure out the same for “they” when it’s used both for third-person singular and third-person plural.

I’m not sure that “eating” is an accurate description! Isn’t there a Stephen King novel about that?

Ugh. Gender essentialism, despicable homophobia — the worst of second wave feminism.

Just did — http://www.britannica.com/event/Srebreni…

I’m confused. What do Bosnian children have to do with the Dutch?

I’m not the least bit surprised. She’s been a notoriously horrible transphobic asshole for years now.

I’m not saying you made a mockery; I’m just trying to explain. JFK Jr. wasn’t just a random famous rich person. A lot of people had affection for him and felt sorry for him from the time he was 3 years old. So when he died, people felt sad. Because they felt they knew him. If God forbid something happened to our…

That’s only because you’re not old enough to remember three-year old John-John saluting at his father’s funeral.

Just think how much better you could have been if he’d been an actual decent human being who’d figured out a non-abusive way to bring out your talent. There’s a fundamental flaw in your logic. And whatever benefit you may think you derived from having chairs thrown at you, you have no right — none, zero — to excuse…

I defer to your greater wisdom. I suppose I think of mercenaries as operating abroad, but I guess there’s no reason they couldn’t include breaking someone out of a gay reparation camp in the U.S. as part of the mercenary job description. Then, of course, you’d have to decide whom to cast in the movie.

That would work!

They could probably hire a team of ex-mercenaries to break her out and spirit her away to another state. At least, that’s what they’d do if this were a movie.

I thought he was of Persian (Iranian) ethnicity. There are certainly Persians who identify as white and look as European as anyone Italian, Greek, Spanish, etc. If he was Afghan, I agree with you.

And if it’s your first pregnancy at 35, the phrase is that you’re an “elderly primagravid.”

This is what my family wears to the beach (in 1905, 1911, and 1906 respectively, all taken in Germany on the Baltic Sea).

The idea that until 30 years ago most parents let their babies “cry it out” is absolutely ridiculous. My son was born in 1990, and the “Ferberizing” concept of sleep training by a modified version of letting babies cry it out was something that I’d never even heard of before — let alone just letting them cry it out…