I get it, but maybe The New Republic was not the right place to publish this kind of thing? This type of humor may work in queer spaces but when you deprive it of that context...

While I’m sure that many of these parents do worry about the children’s health, I think a lot of the stigma against autism comes from the fact that a lot of people view their children as status symbols. They don’t want a “broken” child because it reflects badly on them.

I’m just going to go from personal experience and say that that woman’s son improved because he got older. There’s this assumption that autistic people are perpetually stuck in arrested development and that they don’t age. Which simply isn’t true. A significant amount of autistic people do happen to have intellectual…

She was the inspiration for Benson. Not joking.

Toxic masculinity must be awful for your mental health. It’s the only real upside about being a woman in this society; you’re permitted to have emotions other than rage.

Have you ever seen the videos by Contrapoints? She makes a very convincing case that a lot of these incels are probably suffering from untreated depression.

Fifty Shades is still worse. The first Twilight book is a passable YA book. It just gets bugfuck insane as the series goes on. There isn’t anything redeemable about Fifty Shades though.

What did she crib Grey from? Because there are two BDSM themed movies featuring a powerful dom named Mr. Grey and I don’t know which one she’s more likely to have seen.

Well I’d rather put the blame on the British government and a nasty fungus.

She got famous by completely ripping off Twilight. 

Well part of it was the whole “Twilight fanfic” thing. She had a built in audience.

She named him after a guy who believed that the potato famine was sent by God to teach the Irish a lesson.

I think her plan is just to try to outlive him. Her mother lived to 101; who’s to say she can’t beat that record?

They’re basically misogynists. They view women as inherently weaker and more fragile than men. It’s just fundamentalist Christianity without God. Actually its Catholicism without God; Janice Raymond was a former nun and she was clearly still influenced by that.

I’ve never been a fan of Family Guy, but I really hope that at some point in this woman’s life someone has yelled “Shut up, Meg!” at her.

I was bullied a lot by boys for body hair when I was in elementary school. The bullying stopped by seventh grade, basically right about the time I grew boobs. I don’t know if the two are related or not. I could never tell if girls were bullying me because I was too socially retarded to figure it out.

Where’s this idea coming from that Biden is our “best hope” anyway?

I’m not sure about this but I think they were the ones who actually came up with the term. It was only once people started using it to criticize them that they decided it was a slur.

I think TERFs are laboring under the impression that only men can commit sexual assault. The corollary to “all penetrative sex is rape” seems to be “only penetrative sex is rape”.

She recorded a J-pop album apparently.