I moved to Boulder, the fittest city in the US in 2011 from Houston, once a titleholder for the fattest city in the US. I'm a 32 year-old latina with an ass that pulls tides. Since moving to Boulder, I hike, run, or bike nearly every day and am 100% more active here than I was in Houston.

I've gained nearly 35 pounds.…

Nope. Not white. Wow, congratulations on shittiest comment ever. #trollpatrol

Agreed.

Conversations among viewers in a public forum in a public space are constructive, if anything to make less-aware viewers aware of a lack of representation. I don't think that sitting down with a producer to discuss hints of racism or lack of representation will do any good. They're robots looking at the bottom line.…

It might be more productive for you to be sick of why this conversation keeps happening instead of being sick of the conversation. There's no way to remedy lack of representation without asking these questions. So I'm sorry to make you angry, but this is something that matters to me as a Latina viewer who is sick of…

I love that show too, but some of the lines ("I wish we had Indian neighbors straight off the boat we could ignore" and "Your employee, is he documented?") are just insane.

Sure, but Charmaine's still a protagonist, and we ultimately view her sympathetically despite her flaws. Also, it's not even that Charmaine is racist in that spa scene, it's the whole situation—the point of the scene is for white ladies to discuss their loneliness and how ugly they feel. The Asian women serve them and…

Absolutely none. Diablo Cody's work is rife with racist situations and dialogue. In the United States of Tara, Charmaine's treatment of the pedicurist in the day spa (Season 3) was outrageously racist, and the endless jokes about Max's gardening staff were just unreal.

Not to mention lines like, "You need a Chinese…

Totes. In fact, I'm writing a song about how hot white libertarian women are who live in the suburbs and have a 'thyroid problem' but love their Skinny Girl margaritas and love to pour ketchup all over their pink nipples. I'm calling it Average Girlz.

Oh jesus. This article is the equivalent of 'this bar is OVER.'

I realize there isn't such a clear divide, otherwise, I wouldn't be studying the art form, and otherwise, there wouldn't be a whole branch of scholarship dedicated to defining the differences. I was attempting to define the two art forms in a general way. Like any art form, hybridities and outliers will exist.

And to read up on the differences between crossdressing and drag, look at Polly Mclean's work. She did (and is doing) a lot of work on defining the differences between crossdressing and drag, and they are vastly different practices.

Oh hell no. Madea is a crossdresser. Ms. Doubtfire is a crossdresser. Don't even try. Do. Not.

How's this for opening up the discourse: drag queens are fighting the same fight. But rather than looking at the argument in defense of one sex over the other, they are questioning the very interpretation and performance of gender at its core, and asserting that gender divisions are what create prejudice to begin with.

You made the assertion that evolutionary theory had 'issues.' Are you trying to argue that theories posited in the social sciences have less value because they're objective, and therefore debateable? Because if I'm not mistaken, there is no way to escape subjectivity—objectivity, even in the 'hard' sciences, is still…

Boo, from the Oxford English Dictionary:

The problem is that measuring privilege and oppression, after a while, becomes a circular and empty argument because quantifying institutionalized oppression is like trying to describe the color of the air. So as much as you'd like to claim that women are more oppressed than gays, I'd argue the exact opposite. Hetero…

Isn't that the same argument creationists use to argue evolution?

Last time I checked, women were allowed to marry while queer folk still mostly can't. Who's the oppressed minority?

Of course I know that. Why so hostile, boo?