Right. And it saddens me that the response is not so much "no, I don't see it" but "WOW IS THAT WHAT YOU SEE, YOU'RE SO INDIGNANT UGH I GUESS EVERYONE IS RIGHT JEZEBEL IS JUST SCREECHY MANHATING FEMINAZIS!" The way the comments are being used as a tool to be dismissive about everything and make people seem crazy or…

You know, if you have to belittle someone's abuse in order to make your abuse matter, you're really going about fighting abuse the wrong way.

Where is the respect for the history? In that I acknowledge for one subgroup of gay men, specifically drag queens, and trans women who may have found a home within that subgroup (a group that neither compromises all trans women nor all gay men, and pretty much leaves out the identities of drag kings entirely) has used…

I don't understand this argument, and I'm not sure I ever will. I don't think RuPaul is out to intentionally harm trans people. This does not mean I don't think he does. I can multitask. I can point out problematic language and work to end violence against, hopefully, everyone. We don't need to choose one or the other.

Outcome matters more than intent, this is really the key concept when it comes to calling out problematic word choices. It doesn't really matter if members of a certain subgroup within the LGBT+ community don't intend it to do harm, it still does harm. I recognise that for some trans women, specifically those tied…

OMG THE NATURAL FOODS PEOPLE. I worked in one too, it was weird food conspiracy/food opinion central. There were some awesome people, but some total whackjobs too.

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…

Wow, that sounds aggravating. I think they get the opposite - people coming in, looking at the menu, asking "wait, this isn't real meat?" and then leaving.

I live in a pretty liberal area (in Canada) and most of my server friends work at vegetarian/vegan restaurants... So thankfully we're insulated from a lot of that religious crazy :\

People don't really like to acknowledge the shit that happens to us on the regular. If they don't see it, they can pretend it's not there.

While working in a bookstore, I once caught a customer going through the romance section, turning any faced out books backward. When I stopped her, she began to berate me for allowing pornography and sex books to be facing out for any young person to see. I calmly explained that it was corporate policy and they…

Back when I was working at the movie theater I had something like this happen. A man came up to buy a ticket to some new indie documentary and asked me if I knew what it was about. I hadn't had a chance to look at the description and when I told him he replied it was about evolution. I said that sounded cool, and that…

When I worked at a comic book shop we would get people every now and then who would come in and try to stuff pamphlets into books. After a while I would play some satanic heavy metal to make them feel like they were really doing good work before I went through the shop to collect all their brochures and trash them.

Poor fucking babies.

At least most of you desk job motherfuckers get today off! I'm just starting a 12-hour shift, so quit bitching. And I'll go ahead and quit bitching too, cause I get holiday pay today.

This is just stupid. I guess there is no middle ground, we either don't care when fuckery happens, or we punish as harshly as we can get away with. Forget teaching them anything, just make sure the punishment well exceeds the crime. Making these kids scrub the mess they made would never work. Putting them on…