This is why it gets my goat so much - it reminds me of latinx, a term that is mostly used by people not in the group to make the group feel more included, and then the group it refers to mostly hates it.

I think what folks like Midler are responding to is the fact that, as women’s rights are being taken away and attacked, lefty organizations have responded by using gender neutral language to describe things that are widely to experienced as women’s issues (e.g. giving birth). This language, which is intended to be…

It is deeply ironic to me that a movement that places a lot of importance on respecting how someone wants to be addressed labels women transphobic for wanting to be addressed as such.

Because the vast majority of ciswomen prefer to be called women and not people who give birth, which many find dehumanizing. We can make space for one oppressed minority without stepping on another.

must....always....feel....guilty

The army literally makes you get a shit ton of vaccines before you can go die in battle.

not to mention a property no one cares about and that kind of sucks to begin with.

Fuck paltrow. She shills snake oil - her opinions are by default suspect and not worth engaging with.

Also, Iron Maiden, like Sabbath before them, are not satanic. It’s not like she had a Mayhem tattoo or anything.

Also, her explanation of it, from a guardian article:

The point of that bit was that she was embodying a character who was awful, and so that was clearly an awful thing to say and the “funniness” of it was that she was being a racist asshole, and making you laugh at her being a racist asshole. Her whole early 2000s schtick was being super fucked up and poking fun at the…

I don’t think blackface that is meant to make fun of blackface is in the same bucket as dressing up as a black person to mock them for their race. It’s not great, but clearly the point is that it is racist and fucked up. To me it feels like calling someone a racist because they rap along to Kendrick Lamar without…

Yeah, I mean ultimately if the person whose genitalia is on display has decided they aren’t cool with it, whether for legitimate or mercenary reasons, you gotta change the art. Why double down on “your penis will be displayed FOREVER even if you don’t want it!”

But if white people just feel miserable for their existence, and everyone stops making racist stereotypes about people of color and instead makes them about white people, then we will achieve nirvana.

I love fall. I don’t love white supremacy. If you don’t like that, you can eat a bowl of the genitalia of your choice.

This is disingenuous. Da Baby lost some gigs because of homophobic remarks. That dude lost his Jeopardy gig because he was skeezy. That one lady from the Mandalorian lost her job because she was spouting off conservative nonsense on Twitter. Several hundred college professors have lost their jobs because they pissed…

I played in on release, got several hours into it, but ultimately just couldn’t do it with the shitty humor and Chad take on Quentin Tarantino-type dialogue. Not only is it mean spirited, and poking fun of groups who do not need to be shit on any more, it is also childish and stupid.

I’m a big music fan and the grammy’s always have been a total shitshow. They rarely get it right, almost always leave out incredibly important artists, and are totally out of touch with anything that isn’t either mainstream or catered to white boomers. I just...stopped caring.

$21,600 for fulltime preschool in the SF Bay Area three years ago. My kid had awesome teachers who could reach her and engage with her in ways that I was not equipped to (I’m a good parent, but I am not an early childhood educator) and they got socialized at a young age which has proven really helpful. Also my spouse…

That seems like a negative way of spinning it - him having feelings for her doesn’t mean he was only hanging out with her to fuck her. That’s how some relationships develop - a friendship turns into something more. You get to know someone and really like them. And he told her, in what seems like a respectful way. She…