Be careful, though. There are some situations — especially when the harassment is by a co-worker rather than a supervisor — in which the company can raise as a valid defense the employee’s failure to take advantage of the procedures established by the employer for reporting harassment.

My reaction to the comment that “none” of the series on Netflix are great was “What? Babylon Berlin is absolutely fantastic, and I still think about it, and can’t wait until the next season!” I even went and read the books.

Wasn’t he going to do exactly that, “soon,” in 2016?

As long as you’re willing to disregard her history of transphobia.

About a dozen years ago, not long after my transition, I was taking the 6 train downtown from Grand Central when an obviously inebriated woman walked up to me and started pointing at me and repeatedly shouting, “I know what you are! I know what you are!” I thought to myself, oh no, she knows, what’s she going to do to…

When my son was applying to college a decade ago, I gave him permission to write his essays on how he overcame the trauma of having a parent (me) who almost died when he was 14, and transitioned when he was 15. We used to joke about it, in fact. In the end, he wrote about other things entirely. (One was on his love of…

You couldn’t possibly be stupid enough — even as a TERF or TERF supporter — to believe what you’re saying, so I’ll assume that you’re being deliberately disingenuous. I made the comparison because the attitudes are identical, based on underlying factual premises that are equally false. Not because I believe either…

A perfect example of TERFs being monsters is efcdons’s response to my comment below, in which I pointed out that TERF rhetoric towards trans women is functionally identical to Trump’s rhetoric about “illegal” immigrants. Her brilliant response is that I’m a racist for drawing the analogy (as if I actually believe…

Their rhetoric is really very much like Trump’s, in that it’s based on extreme “nationalism” and on a presumption of danger and collective guilt for the inherently violent and dangerous outsiders trying to invade their “country” — in the TERFs’ case, the country of Woman. Trans women for TERFs = Mexicans and other…

Of course, the TERFs will tell you that you aren’t a lesbian, because your trans wife is simply a violent man whose very existence is an act of sexual assault upon all women.  Feh.

Even though she posted under her real name, she was so thoroughly unpleasant in general that I have no desire to go looking for her!

The “exemption” for current military applies only to those willing to serve in their birth-assigned gender.  So, not an exemption at all

I remember a Stein voter demanding that I prove to her that Trump’s Supreme Court appointments would be worse than Hillary’s.

Leyritz was acquitted.  The other driver was just as drunk as he was.

Mel Hall was the other one, but he was pre-championship era.  Not born-again as far as I know.

Also, Icke and his ilk don’t get to pretend it’s really only about Israel by saying that the world is controlled by “Zionist-Rothschild” lizards.

Yes, I know; that’s why I deleted what I said about 5 minutes after I wrote it. I believe the original story I saw in the NY Post spelled her name with an “o” at the end, which made me think she was Ukrainian.

She’s obviously both.  99% of what Icke says has nothing to do with Israel. It’s about Jews.  And so is most of that disgusting poem Walker wrote.

Because she recently praised him, and she’s a lot more famous than he is

And is a raving anti-Semite.  But God forbid she should be criticized.