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Frankly, body positivity has been co-opted in a very real and harmful way and it is roping in former “bopo activists”. The point where before/afters on insta of weight loss are being hailed as “body positive”. So the concept is becoming meaningless, but not necessarily in the way of “everyone is SO enlightened now”.…

Statistics show that 100% of comments that start with “Not that I want to victim blame . . .” end up blaming the victim.

As a woman who’s been plus-sized for the last 20 years or so, that catcalling moment seemed pretty spot on to me. I lived in Brooklyn for 13 years, and lost track of my catcalling/fatshaming moments on the street. Most vivid: I had a car of teens make mooing sounds at me as I jogged past them. I was actually feeling…

By that standard you probably also think Tiger never cheated on his wife or Harvey assault his accusers.

If I tried to do standing splits, they would become my permanent state, which would make driving difficult as my car doesn’t have a sunroof.

/reads title

What’s wrong with listing her side gigs? After all, you desperately want to pigeon-hole her, which simply proves her concerns that she would be derisively seen as ‘just’ a bartender/server.

If you read the article, you’d understand at least one reason why she didn’t immediately call the police.

I mean - when you look at how accusers are treated in these sorts of situations, it’s no surprise that many don’t choose to go level 10 right off the bat. Going behind the law and trying to keep it out of the media makes me think more that she wasn’t trying to make a big circus out of this situation, but just wanted…

I’m no expert, but commenting on what a person in a potential sexual assault case is wearing is.... Odd?

The Pride Parade.

Exactly. There are plenty of LGBT police officers and allies on police forces. And it’s the cops who keep the religious psychos from doing something horrible because they think God told them it’s okay. This article was fun until that disgusting ending.

I’m black, I’m queer, and I want police protection.

I am a bisexual woman in a hetero-presenting relationship I say presenting ‘cause we have a lot of pan fun, but we keep that behind closed doors). We’re married, we have a kid that I drive to soccer practice, the whole deal. When I started dating my now-husband I was dating a woman, and have had two relationships with…

An on-duty gay police officer protected me (trans) from a hateful bar owner that was trying his hardest to cause a huge scene to get me beat up and/or arrested. He even gave the bar owner the sternest talking to that I’ve seen an officer do to someone in real life. Even my parents were like astonished.

I honestly thought everyone with love and a positive attitude was welcome at Pride.

Strange. Both you and the thread author claim that it is about discrimination against women who don’t want to have sex with anyone with a penis, and then halfway down it suddenly turns into a bunch of bullshit about how transgender people aren’t real and children shouldn’t be taught about trans issues. Maybe the term…

Everyone that supports the community is allowed at the Pride Parade including Black Lives Matters. We can walk and chew gum, but maybe let’s stay on topic this time :) This is our space.

This is not really a problem with Spotify specifically. This is a problem with the music industry. Unless you are an 18 year old pop star in a tiny skirt whose every move is dictated by your label, you’re going to find that the vast majority of the artists who are getting active support and being promoted to streaming…

Yeah but, like, that’s exhausting to even think about.