I think it's less that gay people and transgender people are similar; it's that the people opposing them are similar. If you have a common enemy, best to oppose them as a united front rather than let them divide and conquer, no? I'd say the strategic advantage is well worth some slight dilution of identity. (Then…

You'd have thought we'd be past it by now. My sister's pug managed to learn not to bark at black people on the bus, and he was pretty stupid even for a pug.

i suppose it would defeat the point of being wilfully ignorant if racism required you to actually know anything beyond discerning colours.

Pet peeve alert: there's someone in the media who keeps saying that "cognitive dissonance" means the ability to hold two contradictory viewpoints at once. It actually refers to the mental distress that trying to do so causes. It's genuinely stressful and discombobulating to know that something you sincerely hold to be…

"I didn't understand what you said but I'm confident you're an awful person for saying it. But not in a presumptive way."

So, wait - these days the contestants ARE there to make friends?

See, walls DO bring people together!

Kind of more like dropping a porch tile onto a pile of flaming poo, no?

That's weird, you two said opposite things but they're both right.

No, no, see, they choose to be alone and celibate because they're winners. If you only have sex when you pay for it, you're always in control so the theiving harpies can't steal your masculine thunder. Also weightlifting is really important for some reason.

upvoted for wordplay (intentional or otherwise)

I'd settle for someone peeing on him in the shower.

Nothing a little midichlorine spray won't fix.

I comfort myself with the knowledge that for most of the 20th century, people couldn't imagine that there would ever be a day when The Shadow wasn't a ready pop-culture reference for people of all ages. This, too, shall pass.

a wasteland when people put on their pop culture critic hats
The AV Club

playing solitaire WITH HIS MIND

Clone Flew Over the Dooku's Nest

:: finally works out what EU means in this context ::

I don't think it would add much to the story to reveal that all the characters had letters in their pockets declaring their love for one another.

A dystopia movie having unpleasant social connotations? I'm shocked. See my avatar? That's my shocked face.