Star Wokes Episode VII: The Bae Awakens

A new Bae has come.

Seth Woken

I hate the show for exactly that reason. People who are going about their lives don’t need to be morally tested for entertainment purposes. Imagine having your unexpected moral crisis filmed and put on television. It sucks. I have anxiety that I’ll be on that show.

Not TMI. I was totally ready to tell you all about the time I left a tampon in for like 10 days and did NOT get the smell all the online articles said come along with that. Now THAT’S TMI.

Aluminum will just give you dementia, not actually kill you.

moreover, it is not every trans-identified person’s goal to “pass” nor should it be.

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Except Jeremy Clarkson was less of an asshole. Seriously, I’m absolutely not defending Clarkson’s past dickishness.

Thanks for writing this.

Okay, fair enough. I certainly did NOT consider that. And now I understand much more clearly. Makes total sense, and I do try to educate myself as much as possible (I wouldn’t be a frequent reader and commentor on a site like Jezebel if I didn’t). I will definitely check out that link. Thanks again!

Serious question: have you considered how many times I’ve personally been asked by men to talk them through Feminism 101? Why should women take the time and emotional energy to kindly and graciously educate men who want to be anti-sexist? Part of the work of being anti-sexist is realizing that asking women to do that…

I don’t think enough gets said about how absolutely terrifying men find other men. Physically, emotionally, mentally. The idea of losing other men’s endorsement is intolerable to many, many men, so they don’t risk it, and they’ll do and support nearly anything to keep it.

Get the fuck outta here with your #notallmen apologia. The reason why a minority of men can get away with such spectactularly bad behavior is that the rest of us participate in power structures that ensure that they don’t suffer any consequences for it. Nobody gets a pass for not being actively sexist in a patriarchal…

I read it and still don’t know what this is but Jay Z with his arm around Cole like a father coming back into your life for money had me rolling.

Jay: Where you at?

Came to say. When you put it all together in a row like this, it looks like what it obviously is, pure fiction. Exactly the type of shit they used to do in Hollywood’s studio era. Orchestrating phony affairs to drum up interest in projects, to launch new stars, and to create fan sympathy and thus a renewed interest in…

I have yet to see one that doesn't.

If only there were some way to update her character... some sort of new development in comics, refreshing and tweaking characters and storylines, maybe even reaching out to (or acknowledging) demographics that have been largely ignored... shrug. What can you do? That's the way she was written in the Bible.