Actually, light-skinned black people are often questioned about their race by other black people. That can take a real emotional toll on an individual to live with that. So yes, it does hurt people who are ‘the real deal’ because it will cause further questioning of their identity despite them not misrepresenting…

You’re talking about transgender people. Non-binary just means rejecting the gender binary. You can be non-binary and female for example. 

This person is trash, for sure. My concern with the pronouns isn’t for their feelings, but that picking and choosing which people deserve to have their pronouns used shows disrespect for trans people in general. 

Trans and non-binary are interconnected, but not equivalent. It’s kind of messy because since non-binary is outside the binary, it’s hard to make up a standard for what’s outside the binary “enough”. Not everyone is going to have experienced dysphoria.

I mean, I think “non-binary” is intentionally vague enough that someone could just feel uncomfortable with gender roles and claim it. I don’t think that’s necessarily a problem, but I do have a problem with people using that intentionally vague label to try and speak over other people who are talking about their own…

Hence the gritted teeth. I would happily hand them back to the straights.

Joan, goddess bless you for keeping up with this stuff, and for making it interesting! Please keep doing it so that those of us that just want to dip our toes in without committing can continue to feel like we know what’s going on with pop culture.

GOD YES SAME. I was like are you seriously going to tell me that the women are just letting ~metaphysical~ medicine and alleged espionage just slip through their perfectly manicured hands?? Who cares if Brandi and Denise had a consensual sexual relationship. I wanna know who was in the black SUV following them around!!

Brie Larson single-handedly shook and triggered tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, fragile incel cucks and the dumb women who crave their unwashed dicks, that I will love her forever. The fact that she did this and led to them claiming they would boycott her and “Captain Marvel” and then it went onto make…

Thank you. In this instance, the vets found evidence (internal organs so damaged that the dog was incontinent, vulva and anus so swollen that she couldn’t sit) of at best neglect and at worst abuse. Come on people, that stuff just doesn’t randomly happen to a dog. We can fight for more dignity for houseless people and…

Agreed. Discrimination against unhoused people on the basis of unhousedness is not okay. But just as we don’t pretend that all housed people are angels, let's not pretend that all unhoused people are. There are both housed and unhoused people who abuse their animals, in horrific ways. And this seems to be one of those…

Honestly y’all this is a really bad take. It seems like she definitely could have done more due diligence about the appropriate chain of command that should be followed before accepting an animal into her rescue. But that dog *couldn’t walk*. She was severely malnourished, covered in excrement, and had a badly…

I think you’re being a little harsh on this guy. He accomplished something pretty difficult to do at this stage of the protest; he made this about himself. That’s got to count for something.

If we can’t genuinely self-reflect after making a statement fraught with racism, intentional or not, we’re not going to have much of a society. OH guess what, that’s happening right now.

The tone of dirtbag shifts so much. Lauren and Garrett’s are fun, cheeky, and poke at celebs. Joan just comes across as bitter and angry. To each their own, but their less fun to read. 

Thats exactly what Taylor Swift did to Nicki Minaj all those years ago after the tweet about the Grammy nomination. It is right out of the White Feminism handbook.

I was with you until the whole her husband is a dork, it’s not about race or sex shit. Why do white people always want to tell you it is not about race without checking their internalized racism? I was not born in this country and yet I am always checking how casually racism is imbued into every part of our lives.…

The Alison thing is such an unforced error on her part. The interviewer did not bring up Chrissy or Marie Kondo. The interviewer did bring up goop and Alison was like, nah, I’m reaching for these two Asian women to shit on instead. Mean girl and cool girl (TM) vibes all rolled into one.

That’s the absolute worst part: he’s not a jerk. He’s an amazing person all-around. His big mistake wasn’t breaking up with her. It was partly the way he did it — he just didn’t come home after work one night because he didn’t have the courage to confront her. And mostly the fact that he drug it out for six years — he…

NOT INTERESTING, really, but this is an increasing issue within IP law. Brands wanting to trademark the feeeeeeling you get when you walk into their stores is becoming more and more of a thing. There is something intangible in the way you can walk into certain stores and restaurants and know that they are part of the…