George is the absolute dead spit of his father as a child. Genetics are amazing.

The Play arrow on the video is showing up as a little dunce’s cap on the cat. This makes me happy.

I’m not enough of an expert to argue the point. I shall have a look at the book you recommended and see what it says.

The Grim Reaper. Black and white facepaint, and Youtube tutorials. I had two professional makeup artists tell me they would have been proud to claim the painting. My shower was a trainwreck after I washed it off, though.

It cracked me up when my daughter came home from a babysitting gig and cried “Mum, why did you want to have kids? THEY SUCK AWAY YOUR LIFE!!!”. This is accurate.

I think you may be confusing gender identity with gender expression.

I hear you about being constantly on guard; I’m a woman, I know. But trans women don’t sexually assault other women in public toilets and hassling them won’t make women safer. The only thing that will do that, is the dismantling of rape culture and the proper prosecution and sentencing of people who commit sexual…

Always happy to help those willing to learn. I haven’t been able to find the original document, but the Harvard Crimson article gives a lot of quotes. It’s enlightening.

A man who wants to prevent a woman walking out of the date, that’s who does this. At least it was only her property he was taking hostage.

Sorry, what?

My personal favourite was the recent suit against Led Zeppelin for freaking Stairway to Heaven...because the opening of both songs used a chromatically descending bass line. Bitch, please. Everyone uses descending bass lines.

Looks like Emma Roberts found the same Youtube tutorial I did. But I did it better.

Wow. I thought I won Halloween. I see now I wasn’t even in the right race. That is AMAZING!!!

Minnesota cult leader who preyed on young girls sentenced to 30 years in prison

I agree that argument, as it stands, sucks; it erases not only gender-nonconforming people, but trans people who can’t, or don’t want to, “pass”. It’s very effective, though. A lot of people will reflexively think “OMG, can’t have (strawman stereotype of transwomen) in the women’s toilets, force them back into the…

...we’re talking about a transman. He wants to stop using the women’s bathroom but his school administration has gone to the Supreme Court to force him to keep peeing with the girls.

It’s absolutely true that men commit most of the violence against women, and also true that most women don’t want men in women’s bathrooms. But transwomen aren’t men. They’re women with atypical genitals and secondary sex characteristics. In fact, you could regard them as suffering a hormonal disorder that makes…

Which cultures are those? I’m not familiar. I’m Australian, and Halloween isn’t a big thing here, so I mostly only get second-hand glimpses of the American experience.

I did not.

Eek! Accidental appropriation? Sorry. But yeah, stock photos are SO BAD at depicting musician stuff. Violins are held to the left and flutes to the right, guys. Clarinet reeds go against the bottom lip, and saxophones need mouthpieces. Damn, I’ve seen some horrors. And that’s not even getting into the opera…