I don't see this mistrial as doing anything to deter racists from acting on their bigotry. If anything, it tells them to just refrain from shooting at a car speeding away.

What makes me really fucking upset about this is that so many will dismiss the mistrial verdict because he's going to jail anyways. IT'S NOT THE POINT. And it sure as shit wouldn't be if you were worried about your son or daughter just doing things that normal teenagers do.

Labels are culturally produced and can be harmful, too. No, I don't feel obligated to support the blanket term "gay" when I see it as a harmful erasure of marginalized sexualities. I also don't see the women who use the label as "bad people" though. I think they're caught up in a harmful trend.

I respect this as a reason to reject 'lesbian', but don't see how 'gay' is any better if we're wanting to find some way to be more inclusive. To me, 'gay' is absolutely identity politics erasing differences. Thanks sincerely for your response.

This is really sad to me. The modern Gay Rights Movement has had the unfortunate effect of normalizing a particular gay experience. Your queer female-identifying foremothers fought really hard to make sure a purely female (though not merely cisgendered) experience was marked and understood to be different than male…

Thanks for your response and clarification. It's just frustrating to hear 'gay' become the unquestioned, normative term when lesbians have fought very hard to carve out an identity that isn't understood as a simply the "female" version of gay (which is historically the cismale identifier). I think it does both a…

what? it doesn't do anything to the gender binary except privilege cismale experience and erase queer female experiences.

I agree with you! What a vapid response to a vapid criticism.

Totally.

I unscruted it.

LOL Lenox Mall. "Don't throw no shade-ah/ it's where I buy my Aveda."

I love Scar Jo's teeth so much. Yay for asymmetry!

This woman needs a full dose of inattention to get through whatever she's going through.

I'm not sure, but she seems to be lying low through all the attention the other two women are receiving. Here's a Jezebel interview from last July though. She's thankfully safe, and sounds to be very involved in her own way. Maybe she's the quiet one behind the scenes.

I got you:)

This is addressed in the "Use details you already know section." Also, metaphors aren't useful rhetorical tools for explanation because the point of them is to obscure the relationship. Analogies are much better when trying to explain something complex that you don't want to accidentally oversimplify.

Freud would beg to differ about your literal reading of "perfume."

thanks!

Is this downloadable? itunes doesn't have it, and that is the extent of my internet music-getting capabilities.

maybe she's referencing this more subtle look? I dunno, I'd need to see pics, ERW.