Good.

So you get drunk and mash random buttons on your keyboard? Is this a hobby or a profession for you?

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I think a closer analogy might be a middle-class, light skinned black person telling a lower SES, dark skinned black person how they should deal with racial inequality. I mean for sure, both experience inequality, but they are vastly different experiences.

If they're fine with it, fine, but don't call me a tranny.

Yeah, honestly, most of my experience with the drag community was very early in my transition so 10-12 years ago and the women I knew were kind of using drag as a gateway to transition so my perception of the scene is probably pretty skewed—especially since my own transition track took a much more privileged turn (I…

Actually, I'm going to be more specific. I think in the drag community, tranny is most often used as an empowering term and there is a long history of drag being one of the few places that very feminine gay men and some trans women are able to feel empowered. But, some of the girls I've met from the ball scene…

I definitely get what you're saying, and I don't think it's because they're poor that they don't understand that it's a slur. I think it's because they live in a closed culture where that's the normal way of speaking and that is far removed from the concerns of white middle class transitioners. I'm not saying "oh my…

I completely agree that cis gay men need to stop using the term tranny, but I'm a little more cautious about telling drag queens how they need to refer to themselves. Drag culture has a much longer and deeper history than middle class white transsexual culture. For a very long time, drag and 'female review' shows were…

That's been happening since day 1.

forget it, I'm not wading into this.

I once had a cab refuse to come get me in Birmingham Alabama because I was working at a JCC. The cab driver who did eventually come had a couple of interesting opinions about Judaism, which he shared with us (they weren't hateful, just weird). Just for the record, no one in our group was Jewish...

Oh my god, did you go to that? It was sooo much fun. The best part was when Obama reached into a bag of iPhones and just started throwing them out into a crowd of lazy drug addicts like they were parade candy. Next year I hear they're going to have babies on spikes in a stem cell sauce as an appetizer. Make sure to…

Boom!

To be fair, Fit Mom's muscles do look much prettier than mine but, I can stand on one hand and swing on a flying trapeze, so I win.

This is a thing I've never understood. My job involves being very athletic so I hold myself to a very high standard of fitness, but I have no interest in judging how other people feel about their bodies. What's the point? I have my own body to take care of.

It depends if you're celebrating the mythic 'First Thanksgiving' that we're all told about in kindergarten or the national holiday for giving thanks declared by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Personally I like to celebrate the second one because it has less jesus in it than Christmas.

Forget the sweater, I want that coat!

This makes me so sad. I'm obviously seeing this through the fog of nostalgia, but when I was growing up we always kind of prided ourselves on being better fans and having a better football culture than Miami or Florida. When I was at school, we did have normal shady football cover ups (Peter Warrick was caught…

well, it's true anyway.