But you must remember it’s just easy for her daughter in her family where she lives. There are plenty of places where it’s still dangerous to be out, or people even in the US who will be disowned for being queer or trans. I am amazed at how younger generations are out here exploring their gender identity and being…

I have had this thought, too, but sometimes the barely hidden resentment of the younger generation swings firmly from “you don’t know how hard we had it” to “anything young people embrace, I reject with my super-power of contrarianism!”

If he goes one step further and apologizes to the 2 servers he insulted...

that is dead-on!

I’ve been a Seders fan since Naked was published, but he increasingly has these hot takes that expose how out of touch he is after decades of fame and wealth. He can’t seem to shake this idea of himself as an outsider in spite of being an old, white, cisgender man with a lot of money and influence, who has lived…

There’s a difference between saying “idiotic things” and accusing a murdered person, whose killer was convicted, of dying from a drug overdose and doing so in a manner that can seriously damage that murder victim’s reputation. Especially when the only reason Ye is on the podcast is to boost his own reputation and make…

The Boston Globe didn’t bother covering this. I would have had no idea it happened except that lots of people were posting about it on Twitter. The thing that really pisses me off about it was that apparently had a HUGE police escort. Given how the police did jack shit about the recent, un-permitted, Neo-Nazi marches…

Pick a lane, dude. You can’t knock the shows for having fighting but then balk when asked what the alternatives are. Barney was also imaginary! So were the characters on Sesame Street and Mr Rogers had the Land of Make-Believe. People are trying to make this “people hated Barney because he was such a Nice Guy” when…

This! Having to have a whole conversation about your name every time you’re introduced or someone has to spell it is SUCH a pain in the ass. My only saving grace is that my last name is easy to pronounce and spell. Which was one of the many reasons I kept my last name when I got married.

Wtf? TMNT, Power Rangers and Pokemon are mostly fighting things that aren’t even human. If a giant monster is attacking a city, does nonviolent conflict resolution really make sense? Plus you’re comparing a show for preschoolers with shows for older kids.

I was a latch-key kid and we were lower middle class. Teaching kids to be nice to everyone all the time isn’t teaching them emotional intelligence. Sesame Street and Mr Rogers taught me that feelings like anger, jealously, grief, sadness and fear were normal and that I could talk about them with people I trusted.…

I disagree because TMNT, Power Rangers and Pokemon were in some way original and actually entertaining. There’s a reason they keep coming back. They are based on solid concepts. Barney’s concept was just “nice singing dinosaur.” He had no depth, no complexity, no personality beyond just being nice. Even Big Bird…

When your theme song can be used by an intelligence agency as torture -- IS it really harmless?

It was based on a true story so I’m sure they felt like the character needed to be included but the casting choice of a very young woman in the role was incredibly distracting. Their attempts to make her look older just made her seem like a kid in her mom’s clothes.

That movie lost me the minute it thought it could pass a 22-year-old Jennifer Lawrence as a long-suffering housewife. It felt like when you see a high school production of Guys & Dolls.

Given fashion week’s history of excluding and ignoring Black people but appropriating their culture, it’s really fraught to just ignore this because then the white designers who boo-hoo when called out for appropriation or only using white models will go right into a whataboutism argument.

I still feel like that’s too optimistic, but we can hope.

I’d like to think anyone old enough to have received an email chain letter knows better, but I know I’m wrong.

It’s almost charming that anyone who was raised on the internet would think the internet was a safe place to put a hoax that encouraged other people on the internet to do something dangerous because people on the internet are too smart to believe a random something they saw on the internet, as if this hasn’t played…

That LA Times source: “ a source familiar with the inquiry said Wednesday. The source, who was not authorized to speak publicly, told the Associated Press that the investigation was closed within the last few days.” So that could be anyone affiliated with any party involved.