"...which is an excuse that it seems gets made a lot whenever the guy (because it's almost always a guy) holding the gun (because it's almost always a gun) is white-looking rather than brown or black-looking."

"This to me is just a reflexive kneejerk sort of a cheap shot, just because it's from MS and just because it doesn't let the anon kids in on the development."

Susan Sarandon isn't married either. Why is is this newsworthy?

"I was buried deep in the Twitter hashtag #YesAllWomen, reading story after story of the aggression women face in their daily lives."

"Marketers know what sells."

"bushmaster corporation"

No. No. No. Aaaaand no. Stop it. Stop feeding into this.

To be fair RE: the Emily Blunt thing, ten years ago is when Tom Cruise was going off the deep end. Threatening reporters, going off on weird Scientology rants. It looked like no one was going to touch him after Paramount severed their relationship with him.

"The harm that the word "tranny" does to transgender individuals is serious. The damage is real. And while the word has been used in other parts of the queer community, it is overwhelmingly seen in a negative light and used as a slur by wider society. Specifically, towards transgender women, although sometimes…

I use two methods to check knife sharpness:

Hmm. I've read through this thread and noticed a lot of people who don't like the term 'husband' or 'wife'.

Here here. This in particular perturbed me: "Arrest anyone whose name is on either of those lists. If they are found not guilty, then good. Justice was done."

My stepfather never gave me decent advice. So I made my own along the way. I'm a Gen-Xer, so I think I can dispense advice at this point:

Seriously? She was 'sexually assaulted'? No, she wasn't. A cop grabbed her. If a cop grabbed me by the front of my shirt and gave me a bruise on my chest, that's not sexual assault. Maybe you could say it was just 'assault', perhaps even 'aggravated assault', but it's not 'sexual assault'.