Marriage has its roots in gender inequality, women being bought and sold, raped, disenfranchised, and controlled by their husbands. Its history is very much tied up in the patriarchy. It is still a tool of the patriarchy in many places, where women have far less power than their husbands. If I were straight and wanted…

It can be a subtle difference, but to those like me (male) and my partner (female), it’s enough of a difference that I wish we had this in the US as well (not all states have “common law marriage”). For us, it partially comes from growing up with our own sets of parents involved in either horrendous marriage/brutal…

“Diagnosis: Stylish” did make me laugh out loud, so I guess I am part of the problem.

To bookend our look at nude presidents, here is 45 in all his glory...

“What advantages does this war have over, say, an ethnic cleansing, which I could also afford?”

I think it’s also easier depending on how exposed you’ve been to the linguistic shift that’s been going on for a while now (organically and non-academically) that’s really pushed back on the whole idea that “they” and “their” can’t be used as a gender-neutral singular pronoun used when you don’t either don’t know or…

It’s really not, when you get used to it. My friend’s partner goes by they and them, and sure, the first few times talking to my friend it was a bit odd but after a little while it just becomes second nature. So, a typical conversation might be “Hey, how was your visit out to see [John]? They doing well? How’s their…

Teach him to spell “Matriarchy”

eta: I’m gonna be hella real here...I spelt TEACH as TEAM because my finger slipped and autocorrect is a dick. So I can laugh.

That’s why I don’t walk red carpets.

“Selling” seems like a reasonable place to draw the line to me. I don’t think anyone wants to prohibit Grandma from making Thanksgiving dinner for her friends and neighbors, even if it were constitituational to do so. Church and school functions are a bit different, but those at least are occasional things that set…

Oh the myths of 1939! It may have taken over 70 years, but everyone now knows that there is no tranquility to be found in the shade of a doily tree.

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I’m sure I’m going to get shit over this, and be called a racist, but really?