Oh absolutely !!! Kids need to learn life skills without being tossed in the proverbial deep end. My mom was truly awesome but she suffered from severe depression. So I sort of remember this as being the start of long stretches she just kinda checked out. I am who am because she raised me right but looking back as an…

Very upset with Eddie Izzard

Eh, the age thing would be discrimination. I’m not against the elderly having a say in society. I’m just against any group or person having the only say that matters.

What Rowling has said is shit. Don’t defend this bigot she has more than enough money to do it herself. If someone says awful things they should be held accountable. 

This just goes to show that the real divide is “I have money and you don’t so you’re shitty” and “I have money, and so do you. Let’s create a cultural cabal.” JKR is a TERF piece of trash and Eddie is just feeding into the perception that if you have enough money, everyone with money will love you. If Eddie were a…

I think she’s also a special case in that she’s frankly starting to lose her marbles, even by the admission of her own staff. 

I mean in hindsight it’s fitting.

“I don’t think J.K. Rowling is transphobic,” Izzard says. “I think we need to look at the things she has written about in her blog. Women have been through such hell over history. Trans people have been invisible, too.”

It bothers me especially because they basically make these proclamations based on a passing understanding of American evangelical Christianity. Everything else in their eyes, including entirely different religions, is exactly the same and other religions have the same theology minus the Jesus-y bits (Christian superses…

Yeah, I’m with you on the religious/white Christian right. I’ve got no use for those folks anymore, no matter how nice the surface looks. I’m acquainted with a pastor here in town who is very politically connected, and I literally cross the street when I see him now.

I know you’re loudly and proudly atheist, but the degree of ignorance, arrogance and self-certainty you’re displaying is right up there with any religious fundamentalist I’ve ever seen.

You "guys?" 🙄

Yes this. We even have a Baptist church one town over with a big ol’ pride flag on the front.

This. I’m not currently practicing any religion, but for years attended a progressive Christian church that was welcoming transgendered individuals long before it was popular to do so. My atheist family was far more fundamentalist in thought than I was, and could never grapple with “the god you’re yelling at me about…

I’m from Ohio and can confirm that there are a lot of racist white people there.

Anyone else see the cell phone Karen security tapes were released that showed (shockingly I know) that Karen definitely tried to tackle the kid and was acting like a psycho?

Lightfoot was the former President of the Chicago Police Board and also chair of the Police Accountability Task Force (“created by former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to address Chicago PD’s longstanding issues with racism.”)

After reading that, she honestly sounds mentally unwell. I’ve worked with homeless addicts and people in mental crisis for years, and between her behavior in the video, and the rambling CNN interview, I’m starting to wonder if this was less “racist Karen” and more “psychotic break”.

I call her Fiona Apple Junior.