To be fair, a feminist meetup was the only place where I've ever been congratulated on my apparently political decision to be a lesbian.

Anybody remember when "freedom of religion" only meant that you were allowed to make decisions about your own life on religious principles, and not anybody else's?

Personally I think ze probably was abused (though maybe not by zir father necessarily) seeing as how that seems to be a common thread through all the various identities. I'm just amazed that somehow this slipped through the cracks. I can imagine pedophilia, mental illness, and drug abuse being missed by the various…

Holy shit. I think you win.

Well, marriage was originally devised as a way to ensure inheritances, lines of succession, and property rights (in ancient Greece, the ceremonies for joining families and joining property were nearly indistinguishable. There are records of marriages of two men or two women for the purpose of joining property). The…

Okay, but when has a single one of those men pretended to be a transgender woman in order to gain access to the fitting rooms? Seriously, can you name one single case? Nothing from either party's story gives the impression that Kylie presented herself as anything other than a woman needing a bra. The fact that she had…

My phone once autocorrected "vulvas" (and spelled correctly, too) to "Vulcans."

The article neglects to mention that the Harappans had no written records (that we can decipher—seals from their civilization survive but they're thought to be pictograms and not true language). So its actually entirely possible that they did fight wars or smaller skirmishes and we just don't have the records of it.

To be fair, the Harappan Civilization had completely disappeared by that time, even in local lore/myth, and was not rediscovered until the 1920's. So we can't really say that the colonial brits erased it.

Gender non-conforming is a subset of trans. Trans is an umbrella term encompassing all people whose gender does not match that assigned at birth, not just binary transgender women and men. Not knowing Wren himself, I can't say if he identifies as genderqueer or male (some people use gender non-conforming to mean "does…

Oh, I would love a novel from Yoon Ha Lee! Although that much of her writing in one place my explode my brain.

As a woman, I've always imagined that having a penis must be a terrifying experience. I mean, to be BLASE about getting your genitals caught in your zipper? AUGH.

I accept that you might actually have some weird thing against all commercials of this format. But you do understand why this is an inappropriate forum to express that, right? Calling media portrayal of an LGBT couple "pandering" has negative and offensive connotations, since historically, whenever LGBT people have…

I guess I don't see how you think this is odd, since it is literally the format of half the commercials on TV. And since you've chosen to take this stand on an article specifically about an LGBT commercial, and have chosen to call it "pandering" as if the rest of capitalism is somehow not pandering to every possible…

Why does it matter? There are plenty of commercials that feature a straight couple getting engaged or revealing to family members that they're having a child. Why is featuring an equally emotional moment in the life of a queer couple "pandering" when it follows the same basic formula as those other commercials?

No, we should start eating dogs.

I wouldn't be surprised if all humans were a skosh bisexual, frankly.

I'm not sure the source, but Tatiana did say at one point that Cosima's sexuality wasn't meant to imply that nurture causes orientation, just that sexuality is complicated and arises from a multitude of factors. The showrunners seem to be deliberately staying away from making any definite statements on the…

Well, I think it goes along with what the show's basic argument about nurture and nature has been. The showrunners have taken the stance before that (re: Cosima's sexuality) things like sexuality, personality, etc are deeply complicated and influenced by a multitude of factors. I don't think that goes against what the…

"Shim"? Really?