this is a correct position.

I went on a cruise a few years back & there were a couple stores in Turkey advertising (this is a verbatim quote): "Genuine Fake Watches."

one of my good friends (a gay man) once declared "I'd like to bend Ann Coulter over a table & fuck her 'til her eyes bleed" & ever since then that's been my definitive hatefuck example.

I know, I actually got misty at the end, which is kind of ridiculous considering how absurd & unsentimental the show usually is. the fact that it could feel like such an earnest moment between two best friends is a testament to how well-developed the characters are (& likely stems from the IRL friendship of the leads…

I also enjoyed that Adam ended up experiencing all the typical setbacks of a racing game—crashing & having to take forever to restart, going the wrong way on the course, etc. it was well played.

yeah, that really sucks, but it makes me glad that your wife found a supportive partner.

well the fact that you're even trying puts you streets ahead of a lot of other people, so keep up the good work.

not anymore—not in this brave new world we live in.

once you detach gender from specific sex organs, anything's possible.

I kind of think they're one in the same, though, in some ways—the distinction seems to be largely semantics & individual preference. so much of how we define "female" is "not-male" & vice-versa, so to be both is to be neither, in a sense. (not speaking for gender-neutral people here, just speculating from my own…

I imagine you just…do. like a Goldielocks-&-the-Three-Bears situation—"man" doesn't feel right, "woman" doesn't feel right, so you pick "neither."

I'll happily use zie/hir if people prefer it but to me "they" wins out by virtue of its more widespread intelligibility among people who don't regularly engage with critical gender studies.

I'm a huge grammar pedant, but I don't find it confusing. I use it all the time in non-sexual/genderqueer situations too: "whoever left their book here needs to come get it." "if someone has an issue, they should come talk to me." "that person knocked the bag out of my hand & then they just walked away without…

maybe. or maybe that's when they feel most like a strong, powerful woman.

this is me not making a joke suggesting he taught at Brigham Young.

…which is probably why the letter-writer made a point of setting up their partner's gender neutrality: to avoid having Savage mistakenly use "he" in the answer.

yep, exactly. welcome to the world!

I just mainlined all four episodes of this show last night & now can hop on the "it's great" bandwagon. that bit with Garol's yogurt totally reminded me of the ridiculous B-horror movie The Stuff, which is definitely a compliment.

fantastic live, fantastic on album (even when it's someone else's album, i.e., the latest Big Boi), fantastic doing stripped-down acoustic sets—& I didn't even know this was coming out, so you just made my day, AVClub!

I just did. I was actually pleasantly surprised it wasn't something more disgusting.