“TL;DR don’t be a dick, respect people’s genuinely held gender identities the same way you want everyone to respect your genuinely held religious beliefs.”
This. ThisthisthisthisthisthisthisthisTHIS. Can we take out billboards across the country with this written in giant bold fucking print?
For me part of it is from therapy and part of it is from reading articles in women’s magazines that advise strongly to begin all serious conversations with “I feel like...” In retrospect, my parents should never have allowed middle-school me to read Cosmo.
nope nope nope at wilmer who slept with multiple teens while in his late 20s/30s (mandy moore and lindsay lohan besides demi) you dont get to be a predator and be woke!
We had a peer mediator program in my elementary school where they taught us to get everybody to use “I statements”, and I’ve found the habit very valuable in life. When I’m talking about my feelings, I try not to confuse those with assertions about external realities. There’s a world of difference between, “You’re…
Exactly. When you are told your whole life to use I statements that is what you do. Now even that is a problem.
Except when you start every sentence with a phrase that implies it’s an opinion, people deny facts. It’s why you get a ‘everyone is entitled to an opinion’ phenomenon including things like anti-vaxers and evolution deniers.
I’m lactose intolerant so I’ve found that drinking a milkshake or eating some brie is a delicious way to “detox” my body.
This is so fucking mean.
I said on another post that activists might want to consider organizing campaigns of conspicuous compliance with these laws. I imagine public opinion will turn when people who are too stupid to realize what these laws mandate actually see it in action.
I don’t understand why a man waltzing in behind her as she walks into a bathroom is SO MUCH MORE threatening than a man waltzing in behind her into any other room. Is there something about bathrooms that just make men all of a sudden way more rapey?
And why haven’t these people been worried about their sons in the men’s room all this time? Oh, so maybe it’s not really about protecting their kids.
Newflash dipshits: if someone is going to sexually assault someone in a public restroom they already don’t care if they’re supposed to be in there or not. Making up some stupid transphobic rule under the guise of public safety won’t make a lick of difference.
I think there needs to be a world kebab-off: the very best Turkish, Lebanese, Georgian, Armenian, Persian, Afghan, and Pakistani kebab chefs, all throwing it down on the grill in their national styles. If we can keep the Armenians and Turks from killing each other it’ll be the greatest thing in human history.
Do you know the story about Titanic? Apparently NDG hassled James Cameron for years over the constellations in the sky at the end. NDG said they were incorrect for 1912 and that time of year so when Titanic was re-released in 3D a few years ago, Cameron corrected it for him. I super admire that level of nerd tenacity.
Would still watch with him, tho
Can you imagine watching a movie with Neil Degrasse Tyson??
“HA! Want to know why that can’t happen in real life?”
“I don’t care, Neil! Just let me watch Tangled in peace!!”
Ice T is totally right. I don’t care how much money you have, the markups places charge for it are goddamn ridiculous. 10x the retail prices for a bottle of Grey Goose (nevermind the wholesale) AND you want me to mix my own? Sure you get a dedicated server but you're doing most of it yourself! Pffffttttt.
THIS. We are seeing the devastating results of low voter-turnout right here. People need to vote, not only this November, but EVERY TIME there’s an election. If we don’t vote, then the aging, paranoid, Fox News-Watching folks will continue to have their way.