Pity they couldn’t work a “dickless” joke into Die Hard...

I just now realized that the Ghostbusters’ character is named Peck...

This will replace the whale in my nightmares

“I’m taking it one step at a time and not expecting anything,” he says. As far as going public with his long-held secret? “I’m at the age where I really don’t care. Since I hit 40, I don’t care what people think or do.”

Cool! I hope the surgeries go well for him and that he’ll have full function and sensation!

I say this knowing that I’ll probably get my block knocked off but, Matt McGorry is starting to weird me out a little.

I concur...

She’s gonna be all like:

Shart officially jumped

Well maybe they’re both into it and they’re soul mates

I actually don’t think you get it at all, at least in your ability to empathize with people who have different cultural beliefs around this.

But you are calling them dumb. The widespread use of first names for adults is a very upper middle class white convention and reflects how there are a lot of people whose power is assumed a priori. Other people come into these conversations from different power positions and different and often more marginalised…

I said I agreed with you on the gender issue but I disagree on your dismissal of honorifics and what they mean, especially cross culturally.

You should address people as they wish to be addressed. Just ask ‘em.

I totally agree about the issue of gender based language being exclusionary but in regard to honorific to some extent, you are also talking about social conventions. Cross culturally, people have really different feelings about how people should be addressed. I think it cuts across class too.

These kinds of pieces come up from time to time and they always miss the most important part: teach your kids to ask what someone wants to be called, then call them that. They prefer Mrs. Snoghorn you call them Mrs. Snoghorn. They prefer Fat Amy, you call them Fat Amy. True etiquette is not calling someone something…

Yeah, because being treated as an outsider, told to “go home, Chink”, told I can’t have a white name because only white people can have white names, treated as if I can’t speak / read English, expected to be quiet and do what I’m told because that’s how Asians are, etc. totally isn’t racist or discriminatory, amirite?

As an American of Chinese descent, this guy can go sit on a cactus pantsless. I, and many others who share my ancestry, have faced racism galore in the United States.

Matt - you sexy muthfucka. Get in here with your foxy, feminist ass.