I agree with you but the word “allowing” is kind of scary here. I mean... of course we should “allow” these people to make art. That doesn’t mean we have to buy tickets to their shows or that networks have to book them. But aggressively promoting/supporting people is not the same thing as allowing.

His story was also, if I’m remembering correctly, a one-off. It’s not like it was part of a pattern of behavior he refused to address and correct. “People make mistakes” is a much more applicable attitude to apply to his situation than those of other famous people faced with multiple allegations.

I was going to say mosquitoes, given how many millions they kill spreading disease.

She also had two abortions (which she demanded her family pay for) and now uses her family name to rally against abortion rights. Her family must hate her so much.

It doesn’t, but Bernice King has dedicated her life to protecting and continuing her father’s legacy, so that doesn’t really matter. Blood connection alone gets you someone like his horrible niece Alveda King, who has reappropriated his message for Fox viewers/Trump supporters. Thanks to her there are plenty of white…

Unfortunately that’s a slogan that’s popular within pro-eating disorder online communities. I’d suggest unfollowing that friend, since that stuff can be triggering.

Eh, I’m not going to feel bad for a hypothetical person who, after setting aside money for retirement, insurance, taxes, and rent is left with the same amount of money I make in an entire year. And if she’s paying $1400/month for a studio she should be living somewhere with public transit.

I meant aside from being a Social Media Influencer, which, like “life coach” and “multilevel marketing consultant,” I refuse to consider a real job.

So does this guy have an actual job or what?

Can anyone recommend a good computer program for practicing and improving Arabic? I know talking with real people is best, but that’s just not something I can realistically do every day where I live. I took 4 years of college Arabic and have tried to keep it up but have struggled, and I’ve forgotten most of my…

Seems more like the type to react to this with murder-suicide than an apology, unfortunately.

If he regrets it, he’s got plenty of microphones all around him he can use to issue an apology.

There are a lot of people here who genuinely believe sex-specific public bathrooms are a timeless, God-given right. Really, though, nobody cared about this stuff a few years ago*, it’s just been drummed up as an issue on Fox and by various right wing media outlets to get dumb people pissed off at liberals so they’ll…

They don’t care about us women. They just care about distracting people from their economic and foreign policies, and with regard to this particular issue are terrified they might accidentally find a trans woman attractive so want to banish them from society.

This person had already made up their mind, and wasn’t “just asking” out of genuine curiosity. Best to ignore them.

Unfortunately the only surprise here is that we haven’t had one of these in (what seems like) a while.

I’m kind of wondering whether he kept asking Gates about this because a doctor told him he had one of them and was confused because he’s not gay or African.

I was getting anxious watching this video, thinking “Oh no I hope they at least let her wash her hands.”

Amazing that someone could make a video that’s so shockingly cruel and boring at the same time. She just stands outside the bathroom repeating the same nonsense of strung together transphobic slogans over and over. If you’re going to be a bigot, the least you can do is articulate a few sentences about why anyone…

Yeah, I couldn’t really tell what was happening in the video. I was wondering if the manager went in there to protect the person in the stall and escort her away from the one filming, but maybe I’m interpreting the footage too generously. Either way the manager was a man, so the woman complaining about “a man in the…