Yeah, I do respect the source and I've heard that number before. I don't have any reason to dispute it that isn't anecdotal. I just have a sense that those numbers are pretty far off because so many trans people are in the closet. 20 years ago when I came out as a lesbian, the number of gay people was calculated to…

The adjective transgender should never have an extraneous "-ed" tacked onto the end. An "-ed" suffix adds unnecessary length to the word and can cause tense confusion and grammatical errors. For example, it is grammatically incorrect to turn transgender into a participle, as it is an adjective, not a verb, and only…

Who peed in your cornflakes?

But for the most part, trans men and trans women don't see themselves as other than men or women. The vast majority of trans people are not "out" as trans - they simply live as men and women do in their everyday lives.

I'd say if we were going to change categories, the ideal would be three categories: men, women,…

Because we don't have an equitable system currently. Women make up 51% of the human population, but are only cast for 23% of the roles in movies and 28% of the roles on television. Women in acting and the performance arts are systematically devalued and given fewer opportunities. Removing the binary nature of the…

I think they're blocking the hashtag now. I posted a number of supportive tweets with strong women as images, but the images aren't showing up.

If you don't mind - I edited out the IU logo from her helmet, so it wouldn't be confusing.

As a trans person, I appreciated the censoring of the word tranny - it at least acknowledges the word is problematic and not for use in casual conversation. It was a politeness, even during a discussion about word usage. Unless you are also a trans person, I think it's pretty impolite of you to try to make the Louis…

Trans is not a slur. Tranny is.

But when LGBT people pushed for making secular "civil unions" the legal equivalent of marriages - i.e. giving them all the 1,000 + legal rights, Christians balked and said "no, no! That would make my marriage less special! There have to be differences between marriage and civil unions!"

I suggested we read "Broom of the System" by DFW for our book club. I will never live it down. I was the only one who finished, and when I did I was PISSED. (spoiler: it just stops in the middle of a sentence with no resolution of the story. This is supposed to be edgy.)

That is an extremely good point.

Ewwwww. That I didn't know. Yeah, that's pretty ick.

My house is 180 years old. People always died at home up until the last several decades, where being hospitalized at the end of life is much more common. I'm sure lots of people died in my house of natural causes. I haven't seen a "ghost" yet.

I hated this movie because it seemed to say that being simple and lacking in curiosity (ahem George W. Bush) was more upright that questioning the status quo and trying to do something about it (like that whore Jenny who owns her own body and sleeps with who sleeps with who she wants, but gets HIV, because WHORES.)

I was born in 1968, but I do know that Farrow was the daughter of John Farrow and Maureen O'Sullivan, and that she started out as a model and actress with parents who were in the film industry. No matter what her counter-culture aspirations were, she was a child of the white upperclass establishment. Sinatra wouldn't…

If only the movie theaters and the airplanes were on the same page with this sort of thing.

Like, Woody couldn't tell Ronan wasn't his kid before now? He acted like he just found that out. I hate to tell ya, Woody, but we've known this a LONG time.

Sinatra and Farrow doesn't strike me as strange at all. I can see why on both their parts. Farrow and Allen on the other hand... Woody Allen and any woman is a WTF for me.

She's said for years that she's bi - so it didn't surprise me that she'd be with a dude. She and Vin Diesel were an item for awhile, for example. But something about Zac.... I dunno. It seems odd. Like I wonder if she's pegging him, or something.