Eagerly awaiting the mental gymnastics it will take for someone to insist this makes her horrible person.

I’m in my 40’s, I’ve been following the R Kelly story for what feels like years. I don’t listen to R Kelly, and I’ve made a point of not pulling up his songs even out of curiosity. I do know ‘ I believe I can fly’ but only from Space Jam. I learned it was an R Kelly song literally yesterday.

It makes me so angry that workplaces are full of slightly younger people propping up the tech averse [and being generationally robbed of things like tenure and retirement plans by these same people] while at the same time having to heed workplace policies that bludgeon how unfair and frowned upon ‘ageism’ toward these…

Famous people stop evolving at the same time they get famous so I wouldn’t be surprised if Bezos didn’t know how to properly use email.

I can actually see Jeff Bezos believing that the Wall Street Journal is basically his receptionist.

Seriously, NBA.  Give the Kardashians their own franchise just for dating convenience.

You seem like a pretty all right crayon to me :) Totally agree.

Y’know, when I was young, pretty, thin (and all of 5'2"), I bypassed the lines at concerts for the ladies’ room and instead went to the men’s room, because I have a bladder roughly the size of a tic tac. I sure got a couple of “What the?!” looks, and more than one “Uh, miss, you know this is the men’s room, right?”…

I’m sure she’d quibble that what she actually wants is “*these* people to be protected from *those* people but not *these* people because *these* people are actually secretly *those* people in disguise.”

Setting aside her cruel and incorrect assertions about gender for a moment, “I want fewer people to be protected against violence” is a weird hill to die on. 

You know, my life is pretty easy. Without huge amounts of dysphoria and mental illness I am happy and thriving for the first time... ever. I am like any other woman making her way through this world and the only times I ever get problems are when I am online.

I am so sorry. It must be incredibly difficult to go through life knowing that people wish that upon you. 

Like, if she was advocating for including trans women who transitioned awhile ago, had bottom surgery, etc. then it might be believable.

This! The repeated argument that men are just waiting for trans policies to come into effect so they can come and assault women in the bathroom blows my fucking mind. Because that’s what’s keeping sexual predators and rapists back y’all - signs that say women (no trans people) only.

They want people like me in the men’s room getting raped and killed. That is their endgame.

I think it is important to call them what they don’t want to be called.

Ya know, I COULD believe that people like Beck are motivated by genuine concern for women’s safety rather than sheer throbbing hatred for trans women... IF they actually made some kind of effort to protect trans women who are very obviously not faking it.

This reminds me of people who think that sexual assault victims come forward, “for the money.”

Though Beck told the Baltimore Sun that she does “feel kind of nervous about working with the right wing because they have opposed women’s bodily autonomy, and lesbians’ sovereignty,” it has not stopped her from forming an alliance with Republicans.

Men don’t need to appropriate womanhood or “dress like women” to commit violence against women. They’re already so damn successful at it.