Catharine MacKinnon’s musings, while intriguing, don’t really match up all that well with the research on rapists. The research suggests that they rape women because they can get away with it, which is why they’re also raping family members, children, and subordinate males. It’s not about hating women, it’s about…

Why would he need to know how to ride the subway? Most of America doesn’t live in NYC. Many of us live in places that (gasp) don’t even have a subway. I’m not going to fault him for not knowing the exact procedure for using a transit system he doesn’t ever have to use.

No one should be surprised the Biebs would mimic black people’s hair to be cool; he’s been mimicking lesbians’ hair for years.

Does writing a Kardashian-free Dirt Bag mean that you’re the worst at Jezebel blogging... or the best?

Tara was such a “this is why we aren’t fucking, guys” character for me.

I mean honestly anyone writing a lesbian character in a sci-fi/fantasy show should already have known this was a bad thing to do. It’s not like Tara’s death and the backlash from it is esoteric knowledge.

What made The 100 so painful was that:

Yeah, but otoh, anyone who comes out suddenly finds that people don’t think they can convincingly play straight, so like, at least they could give them the queer roles, you know? I’ll worry about straight people getting to play queer when queer people aren’t struggling to be able to play straight.

Nah. Either tell someone you hope they’re in their meds and that you’re here for them (in whatever capacity you’re up for), or, tell them to fuck off because we’re done here. But combining the two is a total power move, not a great way to help people struggling with mental illness get better.

No, do not try to make lesbian representation something that is only done to please men. Everyone here disagreeing is a queer woman, because having ourselves be represented onscreen is actually very important to us. Discounting it as “a man’s story” is not at all helpful.

Ooo, I was with you right up until Peggy and Angie, whose live-in gal-pals relationship was filllled with subtext.

It’s a shame Chien-Shiung Wu wasn’t a character on Manhattan; sounds like she would have fit right in with the plot.

It is in some flashbacks, but not at the time of her death, which is when this pic is from.

It’s from when she was a guest star on CSI. Her character was emo.

Because record labels put clauses in their contracts that forbid them from coming out.

The headline reads “towns in Arizona and Colorado”, but it should be Arizona and Utah. Colorado City is the city in this case, not the state.

Universal desperately wants the Hogwarts ride to be the greatest thing about Harry Potter Land. It’s the latest in roller-coaster technology, see!! That people find one or two rides is more than enough is besides the point; they want the bragging rights to having implemented such cutting-edge technology.

But, unlike your friends and deboochery, this is a popular, widespread, and consistent usage of humanism.

Is it then that she’s really using the word incorrectly, or just in a newer, more contemporary fashion that has little to do with Enlightenment-era philosophy but does accurately communicate a set of beliefs, most especially a criticism of identity politics?

You’ve had a lot of support from the gay and transgender communities. Some of them are your biggest customers. Why do you think they gravitate to you?