well, she does donate at least 10% of her earnings every year to charity, if that helps.

showing up and looking pretty is definitely a marketable skill since, you know, people are willing to pay for that shit.

wow so I know I shouldn't be that shocked at the comments but I didn't realize people at Jez thought so poorly of escorts and sex workers.

yeah, I'm not sure why people are aghast at this. that's still a big chunk of change to go to a fancy party, and I think the Ks know enough to make the money now when they're still bankable.

I'd read the hell out of that.

just kidding, it wasn't the author — a commenter ON that article named him, but did not write the initial article. so yeah you're right.

the author said it was Conor Oberst in the comments, I believe.

I am only responding because I want to make it clear that I don't think you're a jerk because you had an obnoxious co-worker who was gay once.

Because "tranny" is used as a derogatory slur, and many trans activists have said that it shouldn't be used. If you're referring to multiple transgender people, you would say "trans people."

you're kind of a jerk, sry.

you aren't queer so please stop trying to police queer behavior. look up some shit on Stonewall. make a gay friend. understand that some people are flamboyant and some flamboyant people can even be straight, and it doesn't affect their professionalism. if a dude has limp wrists and a lisp, you not taking him seriously…

uhhhhhhhhhh are you saying that queer people who are comfortable with their sexuality are never flamboyant?

Uh GLAAD just makes it easier for me to know which celebrities actually give a shit and apologize when they get called out and which ones end up writing shit like this. It's not like GLAAD controls the media — the media is just reacting to a public that cares more and, you know, decides to not watch those actors.

Do you think Alec Baldwin has like, friends? Friends who might have advised against this? Friends who are going to make fun of this essay for the rest of time? It's hard for me to envision.

ugh he was a cutie, and his interview was amazing.

I read these and then I was mad about it, but not as mad as I was about reading Maze Runner. I can't imagine making a coherent film series out of Divergent, though, because it makes no sense at all, and then just starts to make even less sense as it goes along.

just fyi, you're using the terminology "straight people" here, when plenty of trans people are straight people. what you're looking for is "cis people," ie not trans people.

you're looking for one comprehensive narrative when there isn't one. most kids have pretty fluid ideas about gender at super young ages — at four…

"Male assigned at birth" or "coercively assigned male at birth" (MAAB, CAMAB) are terms that get that across, while acknowledging that even the construction of "biological" can be loaded (as there is actually a ton of gender variation with regards to biology). As Mock said, she was born a baby.

yeah he seemed really willing to learn something; I'm sure if her tweets had just been nicer it would have been great. She did, in fact, use this moment to be an ambassador and a teacher — Piers was overly defensive and hostile the whole time because he got some angry tweets from people who weren't Janet Mock. idk man.

This is totally true! But when someone straight up says, "hey, no, this narrative doesn't reflect me at all," and talks about that in the book he's supposedly read, it's inappropriate to argue that that narrative is correct.