I think that the backlash against Patricia was a bit ridiculous, but I appreciate that she clarified her statements and learned something in the process. I actually missed a lot of this controversy because I was healing from surgery at the time.

What really needs to change is shitting on people with good intentions and start shitting on people who actually deserve it.

This is classy as shit. Good for her. People fuck up but she actually went out and learned something. Yay for learning!

It was such a short amount of time, not to mention with the excitement of winning an Academy Award, for women to jump down her throat the way they did. Nobody should assume the worst at all times. The message she sent was powerful and necessary on basically highly watched show. And she has tried to make up for it.

Yep. Her heart is in the right place, she did some research and introspection, and she explained herself. I applaud her for that. I especially appreciate her pointing out that so many trans women are living way below the poverty line- that is a very sad truth in our society, and it’s because of this that a couple of…

Sounds like she’s done more learning and reflection. Good for her.

The only person cooler than Princess Leia is Carrie Fisher.

I found this interview completely delightful, but I worry about how the hosts seem to introduce the clip and react to her like she’s some kook, instead of a whip-smart intellect. She’s more than wacky—she’s making a deliberate choice to turn her high intelligence and highly tuned BS-meter into humor instead of despair…

“Your parents mated well, please congratulation them.”

Carrie Fisher is the shit. “Gary’s bored as hell.” BEST INTERVIEW EVER.

Yeah the moment where Carrie mentions being over a certain age and the interviewer says that she is also over forty... gloves came flying off.

I went to Comic-Con, and waited in line to take a picture with her, and she had this pup with her then too! She was just so kind and sweet, she held my hand! and when she thought the photo didn’t turn out well, she asked the picture people to take a second one, and she was right, the first photo I had my eyes closed.…

Gender identity is biological. Racial identity is social. When you are transgender, it is literally how your body is hardwired. When you claim to be a race that you are not, you are pretending.

Agreed 100%. However, now that she has done so she can go away forever.

She seems to have a healthy detachment from reality as evidenced by basically her entire life.

She may have been born white, but in her heart she will always be Hawaiian Tropic #3a Medium/Dark.

This is the proper place for her to talk about her nonsense. On a panel with black women. All along this is exactly what this story needed - not white men, or white women, or black men. Her actions are an affront to black women and that is who needs to talk to her and set her straight. Bravo.

I just don’t understand how she hasn’t been in bed under like 4 comforters since this happened. How is she not mortified? I wish I could watch this video, I hate work.

The problem is that the definition you just posted there isn’t what she meant. Humanism has zero to do with equal gender rights. Feminism promotes the nice easy balance she spoke of. She meant feminism, but she was afraid to say it.

There’s nothing wrong with being a humanist, but saying you are in response to a question of whether you’re a feminist implies that humanism is an alternative belief system about equality of the sexes, when it has nothing to do with gender.