Briefly, I don’t think I was suggesting that these women should be silenced or that they should never be allowed to talk publicly.

This is yet another reminder that having a child does not suddenly make you an expert on literally anything, and that the act of birth is something that literally billions upon billions of people around the world, both very smart and incredibly fucking dumb, have done throughout millenia.

Speaking as a minority attorney that used to do some criminal defense work, I will literally defend anybody and rigorously. Including her, although I imagine she wouldn’t want me to be the one to defend her.

I’m conflicted. On the one hand, I’m 100% on her side and 100% opposed to the alt-right. On the other hand, her special was not good. I’m a fan of her show, and I liked her movie a lot, and I liked her previous special, but this one sucked, frankly.

I feel that people are being a bit reactive and surprised so many teachers can’t see what was being attempted here. Recreating visual source material from a certain period is a big part of stimulated learning for visual and kinetic learners. This wasn’t an entirely terrible idea, but displaying the final product as…

So, I’m a very femme guy who is often told he must be trans (always from cishet people, mind)) - I’m not. There is a very clear, internal knowledge that means I like high heels, make up, and dresses while also knowing I’m male.

I think there is merit to this exercise once there are proper and clear objectives and explanations, particularly as a counter to the dangerous movement of late to romanticise slavery or mischaracterise it as part of the normal transcontinental migration of humans.

That definition is just as circular as the first. “Woman” is the construct, and anyone who identifies as a member of that group is part of the group, but that doesn’t tell me what a woman is, and it leads to the idea that womanhood is just a collection of stereotypes.

You’re using it as a self reinforcing statement—I’m asking you to define what a woman is, and your effectively saying a woman is a woman.

Tautology. That doesn’t define what a woman is...

Okay—so then tell me, what is a woman? I can tell you I’m a clefsej, what effect does that term have if it has no meaning, if it doesn’t describe anything, if it doesn’t create any distinction or classification? What does it mean? Nothing—it becomes a nonsense term.

I just commented this on a transphobic post that was all like, “In a sexual species, females have two X chromosomes and males have an X and a Y, I’m not a bigot it’s just science.” I’m a science teacher so I responded with this.

This isn’t a debate.

Not at all. It illustrated how we feel when someone we love unconditionally has terrible opinions.

“That’s the magic of Fire Island, you bond with people that you wouldn’t normally bond with.”

But Naomi normally gets along with everyone.

Every time I say something like that to my conservative family members I’m told not to take their political posts personally. Uh, you just insulted a group I’m a part of, how else am I supposed to take it?

Why it’s almost like Wikileaks has a vested interest in tamping down suspicions of Russian malfeasance....almost....

Kind of nifty for Wikileaks to plan a data dump just in time to create some smoke around Trump’s wiretapping Trashfire.

I listen to a podcast Pod Save America and one of the host made a good point that Donald isn’t unhinged or out of control, this is the same Donald that he has always been, it’s just the circumstances that have changed. He now has the weight and power of the US government and military behind him, as well as the…