At least 13 of these are about schoolkids and/or pop idols.
I’m of two minds about the Last of Us II kiss. On the one hand, yay representation! On the other hand, showing two girls kissing is about as safe as you can get when trying to bring queerness to the masses. It’s also how TV started introducing queerness a couple decades ago, to the point where having two girls kiss…
Or, these types of articles work to delegitimize trans identities and experiences among allies and potential allies, thus reducing safety for all trans people and making it easier for fascists to harm trans folks with no protection from allies.
So what you’re saying is that a secret-ish group of many people who represent a significant portion of those who write the news in the US and who are passively or actively resistant to including trans perspectives in their group, despite the fact that they report regularly on trans issues and as a result have a…
As Harron pointed out, the fact that there is not much research and writing about trans issues means that what DOES get published carries a lot of weight and power with the average joe’s reading it. The fact that this cis person has irresponsibly become a sort of spokesman for “trans issues” (putting that in quotes…
Yep. In the last 2-3 years I’ve started to really side-eye on first glance so many who label themselves as “feminist” and in conjunction with other shortcomings just start to ponder if the term is now becoming toxic in general, not because I don’t agree with or support empowerment of women or equality/equity but…
I’m with you on just about everything, but nothing about the gatekeeping ended in the 80's. Unless of course the “gatekeeping” is now referred to as bathroom door keeping.
“The elephant in the room is that while 999 trans kids having their lives destroyed by being denied hormones is unfortunate, only a single cis kid mistakenly attempting transition actually qualifies as a tragedy.”
“I’m not interested in sharing this list or any other space with someone who is going to insist on nullifying and erasing my existence and experience as female,” a prominent futurist in progressive news media wrote back.
The fact that they toss out around the word “groupthink” so freely while ensconced in a secret, private listserv where they happily jerk each other off about how great they are is pretty much the epitome of the problem.
It is okay. The real revenge here is that trans women walk past her probably every day. She may even know one or two. She pees one stall over from trans women in the washroom.
“I’m not interested in sharing this list or any other space with someone who is going to insist on nullifying and erasing my existence and experience as female,” a prominent futurist in progressive news media wrote back.
People online were expressing such relief that Bourdain had no drugs and alcohol in his system, which I thought was a very odd reaction. Like it would invalidate their grief if he had relapsed. It just made me feel really, really sad actually.
You know, saying I’m petty for being irritated by his Twitter presence this week (and in general) is fair enough. But brushing off the Amy Winehouse corpse as “Dead celebrities are a thing at Halloween” is a little weird to me?
Except this is more like if Perkins was soliciting children to design new menu items for them that they can profit off in the future. The winner of the contest gets a free lemonade.
Fuck them for trying to pull this shit.
we refer to this film as “Dune: The Conjuring” because at the very end when they crown him my friend whispered “he is the Kwisatz Haderach!” and i lost it.
Peter needs to write more articles on Kotaku. Such good read.