Speaking as a gay man, orientation and gender are only “irrelevant” when non-straight, non-cis people want to talk about it. When a Republican wants to drive voters to the polls with a bathroom bill or a gay marriage ban, it’s extremely “relevant.” I would be happy to live my life without ever discussing my…

Tinder is a dating app. Where “dating” is a euphemism for “fucking.”

Amen!

If you actually watch the clip, it seems that Ford said “Lawyer,” as a joke (because he and Fisher are still friends). See also http://www.today.com/video/carrie-fisher-my-affair-with-harrison-ford-was-a-3-month-1-night-stand-814192195746 at about 3:53, where Fisher is more explicit that this is what happened. …

Thanks Obama!!

Sometimes Jon Stewart is a little too deliberately middle-of-the-road for me. It’s true that “the country” is the same as two weeks ago, in the sense that the same people are in it, more or less, and since the new administration hasn’t taken power nothing awful has yet happened. But it’s foolish to think that severe…

I seriously doubt that Trump ran for president because he was reacting against comedians. (First of all, comedians have been mocking Donald Trump for 30 years — the “tiny hands” thing comes from 90's satire magazine Spy).

Amen.

“So what would be the male equivalent of cunt? Is there any pejorative word out there to be thrown at men that would resonate in the same way?”

“The worst case scenario is that we wind up a bit more like Russia.”? Well that’s a big relief!

It writes itself!

Hey Trump! You’re fired.

I would watch/read/holodeck the shit out of that.

You mean ... it was a nice torch.

If you read People magazine’s stories about AIDS in the early 80's (i.e., when gays were widely deplored, and AIDS was seen as God’s curse), the stories they ran were objective — they didn’t simply get on the bandwagon of condemnation. It was journalism. 

They’re really...what’s the word... deplorable.

As a lawyer, I can tell you I do it because I think it increases readability. And that’s important. (Note: Kinja might take them out, but I put two spaces after each period in this post).

As a New Yorker I couldn’t agree more, except maybe that November or December was when most people who were not directly involved started feeling normal again — that was my case, anyway.

I think the point is that he says he doesn’t ask first. If he perceives the women’s reaction after he makes the grab as consent, he’s probably wrong in 95% of cases. Maybe 100.

“So throwing away long-respected journalistic principles, whereby people may tell you things they otherwise wouldn’t/couldn’t in exchange for confidentiality, is OK as long as you don’t like the guy? the guy threatens to shut down the independent press to further his autocratic destruction of the United States.”