That’s awesome! First person to win a Grand Slam while pregnant! GOAT. Take that, Roger.

“I am not a racist.”™

I will say this re: calling ahead. My local theater is so focused on automation that it is basically an act of God to get a real live person on the phone. Are you supposed to leave a message and hope they get it?

Setting the theater up to fail and gin up public support is relevant AND the theater still could have handled this better/been better equipped (eight devices for the entire theater seems like *clearly* not enough for a multiplex).

Yeah people are still total assholes to disabled people. It’s just a fact. Ableism runs so deep in or society and nobody cares.

I use closed captioning at home always. I have an issue with my brain that makes it almost impossible to hear/understand one person speaking if there is any sort of background noise. I can’t separate sounds. For instance, I cannot understand a server at a restaurant over other people ordering or someone else speaking…

I’d agree with you but then I’m puzzled by this statement: “ However, one of Showcase’s managers declined to accommodate them, arguing that activating the captions would be unfair to the other audience members.” It seem as they COULD be didn’t want to out of the fear of inconveniencing the able-bodied attendees.

I am…

I struggle with British accents, so I always watch Downton Abbey and Game of Thrones with captions.

My step-uncle(whom I’ve never met) is deaf. His family sent him to a school for the deaf. He learned sign language but NO ONE else in the family bothered. I was absolutely stunned when I learned this. I mean, do they just not want to communicate with him? Is he just supposed to lip read? I’ve been disabled since birth…

So just wondering since everyone seems to be on the side of favoring the hearing-impaired patrons comfort vs the audience’s immersion. Do we expect a sign language interpreter to stand up in front of a Broadway play so that the hearing impaired can understand what’s going on?

Everyone else in the theatre:

I don’t know about you all, but I think men may be constitutionally too emotional to be in leadership positions.

What infuriates me is that what she learned from all of this is that she thinks she shouldn’t have voted at all. Really? With hindsight, you don’t wish you had exercised your right to vote for someone whose administration probably wouldn’t have ended up encouraging the type of ICE deportations that resulted in tearing…

Fuck you, Helen.

My main takeaway here is that Teen Vogue is not letting nobody get away with NOTHING. And now that there’s finally a more-than-just-decent major fashion rag out there, it went to bimonthly and may merge with the largely content-ruined Allure, *sob* (still grateful to have it at all, though)

For McConnell to say with a straight fucking face that the Democrats are being obstructionist is obscene, given what they did to Merrick Garland.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/nov/22/harry-reid/harry-reid-says-82-presidential-nominees-have-been/

Reminder: McConnell’s Republican Opposition Congress filibustered 79 Obama nominees before Reid went for the nuclear option.

Sweet Jeebus, could you imagine if the NFL encouraged fans to report infractions as they were happening on the field, and then those infractions would be enforced? Holy shitballs, that would be a cosmic clusterfuck. But...I kind of also want to see it.

“Well, I’m sorry if you just can’t handle a fan of sport making sure the rules are followed, good sir.”, the dickbag says, just before calling the HOA about those infernal children selling their damned lemonade down the street.