It’s kind of hard to synthetically produce a tan effect on white skin. You want warm tones, but too yellow and you look jaundiced, too red and you look burned. That leaves orangey tones that can end up looking more Sunkist then sun-kissed.

So TERFs are the result of women rightfully identifying men as the biggest threat to their lives, and choosing to combat that by exerting as much control as possible over their interactions with men. Then they hear about these trans women and they just go nuts at the idea of men sneaking by their security and into…

The thing is, it’s really not. Read Dworkin and it’s all about elevating women to break the hierarchy and destroy the gender binary with it. People just get stuck on this protectionist version of womanhood, where it’s all about separation and defense and nothing about tearing down patriarchal institutions.

They’ve been pretty heavily infiltrated by bog-standard conservatives and religious fundie types since then. Like After Ellen got bought out by some media conglomerate who then dumped their editorial staff, wipe all the pro-trans articles from the site, and started pushing TERF garbage. If there are any actual radical…

One dude tells another dude this one cool trick for stopping a single bully defined only as ‘bigger than’ but otherwise lacking any systemic or institutional advantages/disadvantages that actually make bullying a complicated social phenomena not easily solved by punching. Why didn’t women, minorities, people with…

The same as its always been for anyone not able to physically dominate their bully: just endure.

It’s The Running Man with more grounded protagonists.

Even if all that didn’t happen, there would be a whole “but did he have to hit him?” hangwring over it because the entire goal is delegitimization of complaints. The real insidious thing about what Hugely and those like him are saying is that it’s not really about stopping predators, just upholding your masculinity at…

God dammit DL. I watched your dumb sitcom as a kid and it made me like you a lot, enough that I watched your dumb Netflix show of which you were the best part (except for the episode with Nichole Byer). Why must you be some old boomer “stop talking about systemic problems” asshole?

Unless he’s got some amazing drug slinging skills, they wont want him. Aryan Brotherhood is mostly just a prison gang like any other these days.

They’ve got a way too bright light on him and it’s making his face disappear. Maybe that was his solution to looking less wrinkled? Only costs an eye socket...

Hey now, some are just hype-men for terrorism. Getting the paranoia and bloodlust up on the front end while cooking up deniability and obfuscation on the back.

So there is a whole complicated discussion in feminism around sexual objectification and whether you’re subverting it or reinforcing it by deliberately playing into the sexualized image patriarchy has constructed for women. Conservatives, and especially their women co-conspirators, think it’s some magic spell for…

In defense of Ms. Kondo, she’d say if the bag of old clothes still brings you happiness then you hold onto it. In contrast, if I could get the county to haul off Tomi, I’d just remember her face when she got thrown in with the rest of the garbage for my spark of joy. 

There’s no need for violence. These are but children and surely a homemade flamethrower like that one dude as Charlottesville whipped up would be enough to put the fear of god into them.

The thing is you think this level of disrespect is something new instead of jsut something you aren’t getting shielded from anymore. Ask any minority or a woman about how rich white boys have acted over the last century and you’ll get similar stories and much worse than what those boys in the video are doing. The…

What is with this dumb idea that the two options are beating or coddling? Hitting people doesn’t make them want to change. It just scares them into either avoiding you or coming back with a bigger stick to take you out once and for all. You have to engage social consequences for being an asshole. Someone around you is…

Kicking the shit out of someone doesn’t change them. It just scares them away. You have to apply social pressure to change minds; throw this kid in a peer group that challenges his crap and can freeze him out for being a shitty human and he’ll be forced to grow. Or he’ll just get online and find some dark corner of…

Who’s to say their local public school wont be another all-white setting where they face no real consequences for being budding sociopaths? This problem isn’t new; it’s just visible to people who would have been shielded from it by privilege or their own blinders.

Buzzfeed probably has the best newsroom in existence right now, and deliberately so. They built a mountain of click-bait gold and then spent it on some of the best reporters in the nation. Meanwhile outfits like the NYT and Wapo are letting their teeth get pulled in exchange for access to an increasingly fragile and…