I was responding to the “technology making things die out” parenthetical.

I don’t think technology itself causes things to die out. Rather, I think technology accelerates natural cultural evolution and that process necessarily involves discarding certain cultural artifacts along the way.

Mathematically speaking, assuming people move the decimal, double, and round up, splitting the check would actually lead to a bigger tip.

But if drag is purely about gender expression why is he using gender identity to lock people out?

Great minds :)

Drag performers don’t dress up as trans people.

As I said, it’s a primer: a highly simplified introduction. Many people— including you, evidently—conflate gender identity with gender expression. The graphic is a way to illustrate the difference.

Here is a primer:

In order for their gender to be taken seriously, transwomen are often pressured into presenting as highly feminine. They aren’t deciding to reinforce gender stereotypes: they’re having the stereotypes forced upon them.

I second the question...

My brother and I both knit. Krysten was much more successful teaching Stepehen than we have ever been trying to teach our dad.

The type of comments you’re making, however “tongue-in-cheek” you intend them, are very similar (in some cases even identical) to sincere comments made by others. This is the problem with “comedy racism”: you will not be able to come up with something absurd enough that a bigot has not said it before. So you end up…

Unrelated to the original post but I want to talk about Community. *dons tinfoil hat*

[This post is secretly another star because I love that video and can only give you one.]

Why would the NRA have to specify that they’re only interested in the right of white gun owners? It seems more likely that they would enjoy the benefits of increased sales while continuing their dog-whistle racism to keep the white buyers scared.

It’s unlikely that Killmonger thinks in terms of “will this course of action best demonstrate my manhood?” but he clearly has specific ideas about how a king should act and those ideas are tied up with toxic masculine ideals: extreme self-reliance (why alienate religious leaders who demonstrated that they had accepted…

I think you (and others) are right that Killmonger has a desire to kill anyone that opposes him, regardless of their gender. Given the number of women in prominent roles in the film, that desire leads to a more-noticeable amount of violence against women. But the gender ratio of his victims is not what makes…

I think the point of the “no blacks in disguise” part is to emphasize how often black actors are only present in movies when they’ve been rendered more palatable under prosthetics and makeup: it’s referring to black actors being in disguise. In Get Out, the significant thing is that you have black actors appearing on…

I think it’s pretty likely that that is her reasoning because... well... that was my reasoning. To be clear, I’m not Emily Lakdawalla and I’m planning to go on Sunday. But I did give serious consideration to whether it was appropriate for me to go opening weekend at all because I would be “taking up space” as it were.…

It seems premature to be asking about “letting go of the past” when we can’t even get a plurality of the country to acknowledge that past.