I just started watching the incredible Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and in one of the songs (‘Put Yourself First’) a creepy-ass photographer wearing a sweater that says ‘Male Gaze’ takes pictures of singing teenage girls. He’s a dead ringer for Terry Richardson. The subtle dragging of that asshole was deeply satisfying.

But... but economics! Rust Belt! We don’t understand Middle America, and need to relate to their pain and feel sympathy regardless of how much pain they happily inflict on anyone else! Oh and not hurt their feelings by pointing that out!

*Glare*

Michelle Obama, Mother of America has a nice ring to it.

I’m 100% in support of this. Plus, if HRC is elected, there technically will be no First Lady, so why not just keep her in that role until a replacement is named?

Yeah, exactly. Which is why having a transgender woman play a transvestite man is a terrible mistake that hits far too close to home to very real and very hurtful stereotypes people have about trans people.

Came here to say the same thing. The article doesn’t make any sense unless you replace the word “transvestite” with “transexual.” Transvestites and transgender are two different things, while transgender has replaced transexual in meaning.

Um, I’ll be the asshole: that was terrible. Are we listening to the same thing? It was so blah— totally the antithesis of the original (or even a good local production).  

Doesn’t Eddie Izzard refer to himself as a transvestite because he wears women’s clothing?

It doesn’t make sense, right? He’s not MY rapist so he’s ok by me.

‘“There’s no question that if the word ‘Manson’ was not involved in her crimes, she would have been paroled 20 years ago,” said Richard Pfeiffer, Van Houten’s attorney, said before adding that he plans to file an appeal’

Gilmore Girls’s first couple of seasons were goddamn TV magic that may never be recreated. If I could walk through the back of my wardrobe to go live inside that Stars Hollow with that dialogue and that cast of characters, I would never come back. After Rory went to Yale it all went to hell and I have no desire to…