That story has already been debunked. A blogger called the YMCAs in the area asking if such an incident took place, and it didn't happen. Such stories only play out in the fantasies of transphobes.
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Moses sounds to me like a man who was raised to be conscientious and compassionate, but decided it was too much hard work and fell back on embracing his male privilege and being an emotionally lazy dudebro. It happens to some sons of feminists, they get "social justice fatigue" and swing the other way.

Maybe it has something to do with the concept in comedy of "kicking up/kicking down". Jabs at privileged groups are funny, ones at marginalized groups are mean.

I'm a third-generation feminist (I was named after Emma Goldman), and I have all kinds of ideas about how I want the world to be, but I am also worn down today from living in the world as it is, so I'm just going to say it. I wish that instead of my (awesome and heroic) Mom spending my childhood carefully NOT…

I pass by them because their billing scheme is too expensive and makes no fucking sense. All those plus signs? What? A charge to use the bike PLUS an amt for 20 mins PLUS another amt for the next hour PLUS a hundred-plus deposit on your credit card? Ben trop compliqué!

Madonna didn't do this for "attention". She posted that hashtag because she is wilfully clueless about racial politics. She's as clueless as all the other white people who say "it's just a word" (it isn't), "it's the intention that matters" (noooope), or "Non-racists can't say racist things" (1. Yes they can and 2.In…

Ladies and gentlemen, Rocco Ritchie's entourage. wince

Ladies and gentlemen, Rocco Ritchie's entourage. wince

Haha thanks! One of my buddies did some nerdy convention thing, got a swag bag with this tee included, and chucked it at me. It's pretty tight on me bc I am a lady of Pam-ish proportions myself, but when my ex saw me in it she said; "You look hot". Also the cute chick at the bagel shop hit on me and said she liked my…

I love Archer. I have a t-shirt with Pam on it.

They're in Gstaad right now, they've been there for over a week.

Thank you for sharing your experience. It's good to hear as many points of view as possible.

There is a small group of trans people who see themselves as "born in the wrong body", in the most literal sense. They will often refer to their assigned-at-birth gender as a "birth defect", and once they have transitioned, seek to seamlessly accept all of the cultural norms and roles given to their post-transition…

I know this title is a joke, but I have a co-worker who actually 100% believes that Bieber, Beyonce, Kanye, Rihanna, Miley and the Kardashians are Illuminati who are trying to "indoctrinate children into sex magick" and prime the population for a One World Government and subsequent alien invasion (except the aliens…

I see what you're saying, but presumably she left him because he was beyond help, while the other five passengers could make it if she brought help. Basically she made the choice to get urgent help rather than witness his inevitable final breath. I doubt being carried in the cold could have hurt him at that point, but…

Imo it takes a good person to be a good mayor. Especially of a Canadian city. Our political system is pretty loose and requires that elected officials have integrity. If that wasn't the case, we'd be better prepared to limit their power when animalistic degenerates or wannabe despots got in office (which we aren't).

Imo, anonymity is appropriate in some venues and not others. The vast nature of the internet creates an intuitive fallacy that we have to create one consistent rule to govern all situations, but it doesn't have to be that way. The internet is elegant and plastic; it's within our capability to create 'net spaces where…

It becomes your business when you are dependent on the person with the thoughts; it becomes your business when they are your educator, parole officer, landlord, loan officer, social worker. Only people with class privilege can afford to live as though they don't live and die by the opinions of gatekeepers who stand…

I don't know her and I'mnot trying to make her feel bad for anything.I'm just pointing out how she's exploiting cultural tropes (such as small=cute and helpless) in order to provoke a certain response.

Did she really have to mention her weight and imply how tiny and cute she is? It's not like it's relevant, bc it's unlikely that she really would get the chance to throw down with the thief. The whole note is positioning her as someone who wants to be pitied; it's helplessness humble-brag. She hit practically every…