I would also like to know the answers to these excellent questions.

While it’s definitely admirable to have a stunt coordinator looking out for their stuntworkers considering how many stuntpeople get injured or even killed on the job, I’d like to hear a more in-depth explanation of why he thought he was more capable of doing the stunt in drag than an actual woman.

Agreed, the intent was to minimize the severity, but (at least, I hope) such parties are a thing of the past. It sounds almost barbaric at this point, thanks to the advances of modern medicine, and yet...it’s what we did, and nobody blinked an eye at it, not that long ago.

I’m all but certain they think it’s NBD. Or at least, they’re completely unfamiliar with the actual reality of polio or a serious mumps/pertussis outbreak. I think most of us have seen pics of kids in iron lungs, but the generation that actually lived that is beginning to die out, most of us don’t have siblings or…

Fully agreed. It creates a convenient fig leaf wherein we don’t have to examine how deeply sexist our society is and all the myriad ways it affects everyone’s lives, and lets people believe that what they do doesn’t need to be examined because “I couldn’t possibly be like that”.

I’d love to star the comment as is, but of course we have to qualify it forever and ever amen because the grays are all about #notallpoliceofficers. Similarly, yeah, #notallmen, because someone will absolutely speak up if they feel that hasn’t been mentioned.

Ah, right, I see it now, thanks.

“But why don’t women speak up?!?! Why don’t they go the authorities??? All you have to do is go to the authorities!!!1!”

No lie, would explore.

It’s so refreshing not to have a massive list of still-loading tweets to try to scroll past before they manage to load! This is the best Barf Bag ever!

The turkeys are in a nicer hotel room than I have ever set foot in. We’ve got hundreds of kids living in quite literal cages yet the administration has the time and money to set a couple of fowl up for a week in this plush palace. Cool cool.

It’s 100% projection.

To be fair, this came about mostly because of the western side of the state. It’s quite red east of the Cascades. But the cities have enough population to carry the state when it comes to voting, which often makes the more conservative parts of the state hopping mad. So baby steps in your state, maybe?

Maybe that’s the secret agenda, the hope that Washington State will pay them in coffee to go away.

The pervasive and wide use of “girl” to describe adult women is one of my big pet peeves. It’s so infantalizing.

Hey NRA, take a seat. Maybe several. We know what we voted for and we want gun control.

Good point. I’d definitely call that one flat out aggression.

Yes, that’s exactly the point. There isn’t enough diversity in Congress, so when people see a young woman in the halls, often the automatic default assumption is “this person couldn’t possibly be a Congressperson”and treat her as such.

When men ask what microaggressions are, this is a good example, because it happens over and over and over. Grace Meng is right on the money. Let’s make this the new normal.

What in the ACTUAL fuck.