Ooooo, I need some of that. I’m 5 months pregnant as of today, I’m not totally sure how much longer some positions will be feasible.

I love her so so much, every time I got a chance to talk to her I feel like I was completely nonverbal, she is just so smart.

Why is gender being constructed in any way contradicted by the idea of gender as a spectrum? And in any case, I correct them. I just corrected a student on Faust’s gender not five minutes ago.

“They’re going to need the biggest jaws of life to cut me out of that car wreck! They’ll have to build a whole new factory to build those bigger jaws of life. And that factory will be in America!”

Fucking hell I SAID I correct them. Wanting her to be given the credit for her academic work doesn’t mean I can’t also want us to live in a world in which people see gender as a spectrum, don’t police bathroom usage, and don’t throw baby “gender reveal” parties.

For sure, I have a trans brother and trans students so I get that impulse. But I also hate the idea of policing and binarizing gender. So I correct them when they misgender, and I long for a day when gender truly doesn’t matter and is seen as a spectrum, not one of two boxes a person checks based on what’s in their…

No, people are so dumb I have seen them make period jokes about her. About a 69-yr-old. Stupid: it’s an epidemic.

True, but I also don’t want to play into the gender policing dynamics that leads transphobic folks to feel like they should be checking genitals outside of bathrooms.

Yep! Racism was totally eliminated on that hallowed day! We aren’t in for 4-8 years of misogynistic, ignorant period jokes! Nope, no way!

Excellent point, thank you. OBVIOUSLY we’re not post-gender. Not until Nov. 9th, after Hillary is elected! (massive eyeroll)

It still blows my mind that we’re simply NEVER going to see his tax returns. It’s just not going to happen. And he might be our next President. (I lived through the 2000 elections, I’m not getting cocky till it’s called for her definitively, anything can fucking happen.)

I’m grading an exam for my Civil War class and so so many of my students are misgendering Faust when discussing her article about Civil War deaths. On the one hand, gender is a construct, so why make a big deal and correct them? On the the other hand, I was at Harvard when she was inaugurated & attended the ceremony…

Yes, time is such a big ingredient! After that many years and major life choices together a solid relationship isn’t threatened by some ex from years prior! That’s why I love the line by Beyonce in “All Night,” discussing her relationship with Jay-Z: “nothing real can be threatened.”

Well, he’s a man and I’m a woman, but neither of us is straight. Which is also how we manage to have overlap in exes / people we’ve made out with, despite having totally different taste in men. Until this thread it hadn’t occurred to me how much more being friends with exes is normalized in queer circles. There’s only…

She was the absolute worst.

Ha, that’s not totally inaccurate. I thought Carrie was so fucking small minded to break up with a guy for being bi, but then my SO is also bi. If you ever watched the L Word, the incestuous diagram of former luvahs that Alice makes is pretty spot on for our friend group. I’m pregnant, most of the close friends we…

I know! I miss Tweet Beat so much! And I’m even on Twitter now. COme back to us!!!

Huh. I was friends with my SO long before we began dating, so many of our exes are long-term friends of both of ours. Our friend group was too incestuous to get weird about exes.

“Here’s a question,” features editor Joanna Rothkopf asked. “Did you call someone? Was it someone on the phone? Not Siri?”

I am living for it. It’s refreshing to see such demented rage about something other than Hillary, for once. It escalated to “can you do basic fucking math!??!” so so so fast.