So the alternative is to let people rant, rave, and cause significant distress to others for the duration of a transatlantic flight, just because they were the victim of racism? Would you tolerate that from the victim of any other abuse?

"Please leave the plane."

I'm more unsettled by the attitude in the article and comments about wanting Laverne to be some kind of "my trans best friend" (that last paragraph in the OP, for example) like Laverne and her character are one-and-the-same and are there for the amusement of cis- straight people.

Try to watch this without screaming "I LOVE YOU, LAVERNE. PLEASE LET ME BE YOUR BEST FRIEND AND PLAY BARBIES WITH ME AND TALK SHIT ABOUT HOW MY BARBIES ARE TACKY AND DRESS LIKE SAD REJECTED REAL HOUSEVWIVES CAST MEMBERS." Just give it a try.

I feel sorry for you, Uber. It must be tough having to EXAGGERATE things all the time just for clicks. You've turned into a bully who can't take criticism and just looks for the negative in things that you disagree with.

What a surprise, Pinkham can't take criticism without getting absurdly defensive.

If you think it's just a semantics lesson, you missed my point.

Yeah, this isn't cute. It's like an extension of the "f*g hag" thing where it's okay for a dude to make sexist and sexually demeaning comments to you if he's gay, and women get to use the "sassyness" of "their gay friend" to make themselves more intersting. It's not okay, nobody needs to be publishing a book with a…

But your feelings about genitals are.

Making this soley an issue of individual will is foolishly obscuring societal context that - whether we like it or not - comprises at least half the big picture.

So once a person sexualizes herself, she's nothing more than a sex object?

Your mum's Funbags are ruined.

I don't know, can you hit a 50yd FG with no defence?

Yellowish Fever

I'll go with "vaguely-brown", like always.

Is your screenname a reference to the show I think it's a reference to?

Funny how virtually every major media source (even the Daily Mail) notices that distinction, but Jezebel can't.

The Time 100 list isn't ranked, nor has it ever been. It's a list of the most influential people (plural) - Beyonce made the cover because she can sell more magazines than Jenji Kohan or Angela Merkel, not out of any special distinction - publications of the issue in foreign markets carried different cover photos,…

You realise that the Time 100 list isn't ranked, right? It isn't the same thing as Person of the Year.

I guess if you're a shitty human being you shouldn't care about whether or not you hurt someone