This is one of those excellent examples of why the LGBTQ+ community uses a rainbow as their symbol. Sexuality isn’t one thing or another, and it might vary by context.

Depends entirely on whether or not the actual participants are happy with the arrangement (in this case, fictional persons, fictionally happy). I’m in an open relationship where my partner has other boyfriends and I don’t ... ‘cause I’m not really interested in going out and getting it on with anyone else but I’m also…

Or making it law to be forced to share lines. Happily using Cable laid by one company and using another for internet...... Oh, and free healthcare. Sorry, I had to put that in......... I’ll see myself out now.

The unintended consequences would be an epic nightmare.

This is me. History Buff Vacation Dad. I took my family to Gettysburg and no one understood a damn thing. But I was in heaven. Did the self-driving tour with the CD and got out at every point of interest. Wonderful experience.

Fuck. I’m Vacation Dad.

Look, I get it. That’s a lot of $$ for a thing that keeps my $5000 monitor from falling over. But they’re giving you the option to mount it to something else.

I tell you what.

It is less functional than an ergotron arm and 800 dollars more expensive.

If you’re eager to be insulted and claim victimhood, then yes, I suppose a Snapchat filter is insulting. 

First time i’ve heard of Cis and that is just dumb... Anyways, people need to stop being upset about everything they could possibly get upset about and live their life. This filter is not a big deal. There are a lot of more important things everyone should be upset about. 

Not quite - I just find it disappointing that we have such a hard time tolerating one another despite claiming to be staunch champions of tolerance.

Fuck you, you fucking fuck!

Explain the trivialization. No one is pretending to be trans, or that they had a struggle to get there. Its just people go “Hey look, I look like a woman!” The filter isn’t a trans filter. So does the trans community view all gender “swapping” in entertainment, Halloween, etc as trivialization? Is it insulting for a…

The lightened skin is there to lighten shadows so the filter can reconture the face. They try to remove shadows around the eyes to reduce the appearance of a brow ridge and then darken the shadows to try to make the brow ridge more apparent on the male filter. Snapchat isn’t trying to say that the lighter you are the…

I think this is a great opportunity to reiterate the idea that your assumption of another person based on their outward presentation doesn’t necessarily align with their identity.

I am confused.

I would venture that the people using this filter and Snapchat users in general (i.e. young people) are far more accepting of the LGBTQ community than otherwise.

My problem here, is that nothing is being talked about in depth enough. Why are people offended and why should I care? Yes there are follow up questions. This isn’t sexist, this isn’t black face, this isn’t really anything. So if you want it to be something, come with more the an empty tweet and some hype behind your…

Or...maybe you could use this opportunity to start your journey towards being less offended by the world, and write about that.