Totally, totally off topic and I apologize for derailing this thread - I’m just so angry and hurt right now. Got sexually harassed at Wal-mart today by a man who followed me out of the store, to my car in the parking lot, proceeded to bully me for my phone number so we can be “friends,” completely didn’t care that I…

“We need to be praying for Hillary Clinton. There’s special needs there, there’s mental impairment...”

Purple Cottonelle (why do they even make the blue kind?).

Purple Cottonelle (why do they even make the blue kind?).

This only looks scary because it combines my top three fears: answering a phone without caller ID, unexpected hair in my mouth and a malfunctioning tv on a long flight.

Yeah, me too. And I’m listening to trans people who were hurt and offended by her comments. Because me being queer doesn’t mean I know jack shit about the trans experience.

Thank you. I have real problems with Caitlyn, but her being trans isn’t one of them. I look for clear ways to say it.

Just say she’s a phony! Say she got a divorce for ratings! Say she lied about whatever, as long as you don’t say “She isn’t trans because she’s a liar.” Don’t misgender her. Don’t imply that she went to the massive expense and the massive emotional journey of transitioning in order to get attention. That makes light…

Ugh, I really did expect better from you. This is pretty disheartening, to be honest.

See, that’s just the needle I’m trying to thread here: joke all you want about her being a liar or an egotist or just an asshole, but don’t degrade trans identities to do so. Don’t misgender her. People here seem to be of the opinion that once you decide that someone is a phony in general, you don’t need to even do…

I’m not defending her, and I don’t consider her the face of the trans community. In fact, if you do, that says a lot more about how little you know my community than it does about me. And, you have no way of knowing what surgeries she’s had. But even that is beside the point: not liking someone or not trusting them is…