After seven seasons, and my stalwart badassness that I pretend I have, this was the first episode of GoT where I legitimately felt like hurling. That greyscale procedure was more viscerally graphic and disgusting (and it’s a fake disease!) than any violence this show’s ever portrayed.

lol true. it’s almost offensive like YEAH WE KNOW WHY DON’T YOU RUB IT IN

She’s 24, it’s just how she looks. I appreciate that she doesn’t style herself in kiddie fashion like Ariana Grande.

Nope, too soon. It’s none of my business and I’m glad they’re all happy but all the hair stands on the back of my neck when this happens

I suspect it’s not so much “growing rapidly” as “pent-up demand” than might take decades and decades to fully know.

I read it as “Cyril.”

Yeah but also like...if your kid is trans they’re going to experience dysphoria anyway right? Because they have sex characteristics that do not belong to the gender they identify as. So really this is about the parents and it’s going to be annoying as fuck for their poor kid from a legal standpoint.

Eh, I mean anyone reading/watching The Blaze is in a nasty confirmation bias spiral to begin with.

A bit performative? I mean, the baby even had a home birth. I bet the parents are vegan too and the child will only be allowed to play with organic wood toys made from recycled wagon wheels.  

Yeah, this was my first thought - I would bet that’s NOT what’s going on here, but frankly there are babies born which physiologically don’t fit into the gender binary, and the option of going “U” should have already existed for them rather than just arbitrarily deciding to make whatever seemed like the less intrusive…

I agree, plus sex isn’t the same as gender. There’s nothing wrong with recognizing a child’s sex at birth while making zero assumptions about their future gender (or sexuality) provided you give them options to identify correctly down the line.

I don’t suppose it matters on the birth certificate, but it does seem a little foolish to just pretend sex has no relationship to health. You don’t need to force anything on a child, but that is medically necessary information regardless of what gender, if any, the child identifies with.

“Again, 4:44 is so far a terrific album (we’ll have more on it at a later juncture, after we’ve had time to absorb it)“

More like, intersectional feminist writer: on top of bullshit dealt to WoC because of the color of their skin, they also deal with sexism and sometimes a gross combination.

If only the same compassion and logic were applied to all addicts and people suffering from mental illness, regardless of fame or socio-economic status.

Pretty sure she actually does have lupus.

Maybe when their dads were cheating on their moms.

Agreed. Her current decline is from that haircut. She Felicity’ed herself.

She’s trying to do exactly what Miley did. You can tell by the hair.

“You’re ‘bout as cute as / An old coupon expired”