“You have to respect that I hate your guts.”

I hope there’s at least one adult looking out for him. I had a trans girl student pick me as the teacher to come out to after a lesson on genetics in which I said that XX:female and XY:male were typical, but exceptions abound and gender/sex is complicated.

My father, who is 78 and a Bill Buckley-style Republican, gets his coffee at a shop with a trans man working the register. My dad manages to call this man by his (masculine) name or “Sir” every morning. He has said he, “doesn’t really get it” but then he shrugs because why would he care? What’s it to him or Vlaming…

I’m...honestly befuddled by this Sheeran thing.  No, not his success but this whole thing over him dressing the same way he always does for a show while Beyonce dresses the same way she always does for a show. Yes, yes, there’s a good conversation to be had about expectations for women versus men when it comes to…

Those red trees are creepy as hell. That is all.

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I mentioned this over on io9, but this mess is just joyless. I can’t even really say there’s a cold elegance (which is more of last year’s vibe). It’s just cold and screams, “We are all dead inside. Humanity does not live here.” In other words, a perfect choice for their holiday season.

I definitely think it can be a valid argument, but the breach of trust is the more relevant issue here, I’d say. 

It’s not like she grew up rich, either. I’m sure her lizard brain still thinks of $30k as a year’s salary. 

Exactly. Worth half a billion+ or not, would you trust someone who stole money from you? And sure, $30k isn’t that much to her, but it’s still a pretty large sum of money by the average human being’s standards.

Amanda Donaldson, whom she claims violated work protocol by making several unauthorized purchases using Rowling’s funds, amounting to about $31,000 in charges. Rowling is worth about $650 million, how would she even notice this? Why would she care? And what was she paying Donaldson, I wonder.

It’s safe to say JKR’s a bit of a mixed bag, persona- and public-statement-wise. But surely she is allowed to impose consequences on someone who stole from her, and I don’t think “she has so much money, who cares about a measly five figures and a few cats” is a valid argument. IF it happened, it’s a violation of…

You can add Guns -n- Roses to that list. I’m at work so I can’t link to Axl Rose’s Twitter thread about this*, but it’s pretty fun reading.

It’s an extremely dry whine, too.  Made of only the sourest grapes.  

Perpetual victimhood is the whine of white conservatives everywhere.

Exactly. It gets way more people talking about his rallies, gets him press, and he can play the victim of the Hollywood/leftist elite.

I think Trump and his staff intentionally uses music by artists who oppose him and his policies just to piss these artists and their fans off. For Trump - there is no such thing as bad publicity and it proves he can do anything he wants without consequences. He loves getting under people’s skin and most of his base…

It seems like they are doing it on purpose at this point, going out of their way to play music by artists they know are anti-Trump, so they can then then play the never-ending victim card that they are being bullied by the Hollywood leftist elite or what have you. 

there is nothing more liberating than unfollowing a thirsty celeb.