Terms of endearment shouldn't cause harm. That's basic.

I would guess that RuPaul, growing up in the deep south and dealing with these issues for nearly 40 years now, is more than a little bit offended that the literal beatings he took for being gender queer are being equated with vocabulary exchanges today. I wouldn't blame him.

Yeah, as a FAMOUS gay man who dresses like a woman for a living (and who is black, btw) - he has NO worries about someone beating him or killing him, while shouting that word and for who he is. He could not possibly understand what is like to be different. Btw- I'm being sarcastic.

What about the persistent and damaging myths this sort of thing propagates though?

Why don't we hire robots to run fast food companies? They'll be equally cold and calculating but it will feel less personal.

Downside, machines break.

I was actually going to do a write up on that club. And yes, I think it does have to do with a difference of usage. The reason, in my view, why trans people have the more substantial position is because its use against trans people and drag queens come from a conflation of the two, is aimed at "men who think they're…

Probably most of the criticism is not sexist but so many liberals can be very sexist. However she is in party that hates women yet she is not calling them out , so she is probably using this as a way to score points.

I seriously doubt my fellow liberals in South Dakota (S'up you two) are saying anything bad about this asshole just because she's a woman. If they're saying anything, it's because she's an asshole.

Unless she calls her left breast "charisma" and her right breast "voice", I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you on the roots of her fame. And in an ideal world her weight wouldn't matter, but when she's making big money by endorsing a weight loss plan, it kinda does.

I'm so sorry you married someone who plays golf. My deepest sympathies, I pray he doesn't watch it on television as well as waste hundreds of dollars on pleated khaki pants.

Everyone looks better when they're standing next to mahhhble columns.

It's also very ORANGE

It's a perfect mix of "no one gets to touch OUR women" paternalist mysogyny and culture warfare. The idea that women have to be kept in the cultural/racial/religious fold for the purity and continued propagation of the culture/race/religion, while men can go forth and spread their seed because they can always bring…

Well, Darfur was in the news a LOT back in the day.

To people who hold strong beliefs it would be very hard. But regardless you missed the point.

RIP

CLEARLY CANADIAN. Specifically the strawberry flavour. Beach days/picnics/my life has never been the same without it.