I don’t see a lot of gays running around saying “Only gay people can get married! No straights! It’s the will of Our Lord and Savior Cher!” So this argument that gay people can “choose not to support traditional marriage” is bullshit. 

OK, mine is definitely not as interesting as some of these. In Chicago, there’s a beauty store called Bravco, in a basement on Oak St. It’s very small, but has a million different hair and beauty products and its wall of travel sizes is legendary. My friend and I are in there looking at products. I go around a corner…

THANK YOU. When you are six, your world is your family and your dog. Losing that dog would be like losing her brother or her dad. That’s supposed to be funny? Fuck these people so much.

Because she’s probably mean and has been playing cruel tricks on other people all her life in the name of a “joke”.

Yeah, that’s bullshit. Bold patterns can look great on bigger bodies because we have the larger frame to carry them off. Bold patterns can swallow smaller frames whole.

Leopard print is my neutral.

Hooray for the “progressive” Pope! In Catholic terms, “progressive” means “thinks it’s 1850" instead of “thinks it’s 1550".

In the 90s some friends got into Williamson’s stuff; got me into it a bit. Listening to some tapes, I remember hearing her sneer something to the effect of “I met people who were dying from AIDS who felt less sorry for themselves than people who felt daddy didn’t love them enough.” The disdain in her voice for people…

This told me everything I needed to know:

A body is not a costume. Body shape is not easily changeable; it’s basically only through plastic surgery or weight gain/loss (which is dangerous if done quickly/often). Body shape’s not a dress, or a toga, or a suit of armor. It’s not colored contacts or a fake beard. To argue that a fat body, which is the subject…

I thought the same thing, and not in a “Aw, you look like your mom” way, but in a “Wow, you look 20 years older than your actual age” way.

She’s a pretty woman but this look is very aging.

Yeah, but I’m not making spreadsheets to amuse and entertain the general public. When you put your personal life up for entertainment value in order to get paid, you don’t get to be mad when people treat your personal life like...entertainment.

Internalized misogyny vis a vis the Madonna/Whore Complex is real and it’s shitty.

Nope. We need to stop with the “It’s generational” stuff. My own mother is in her mid-70s and is appalled at Streisand’s comments.

Gross people are gross people, no matter their age.

No cash bars. If you can’t afford to give your guests food and drink for the entire party, get cheaper food and drink or get fewer guests. Not having booze is a perfectly acceptable choice, for whatever reason. (A dry wedding is not my favorite kind of wedding, but I’m also not the one throwing the party.)

If you…

YES. It’s rude to invade someone’s private party where they are trying to celebrate an important life event with their loved ones. Someone’s desire for a free meal and LOLs is not more important than the couples’ right to celebrate with their invited guests at the party they paid for.

So if you had too much food at your picnic you’d be fine with someone (who isn’t food insecure) swiping food from your blanket while you went for a walk, just for shits and giggles? Or reaching through your dining room window to steal the leftovers off your dinner plate when you went to get some more wine? Because…

Indiana is the Mississippi of the North.
(As a former Hoosier I am allowed to say this.)

Because my body is not a costume. Thin bodies have privilege that bigger bodies don’t. I don’t get to take off my hips and thighs at the end of the day and enjoy the privilege that comes with being thin. I exist in a body in a world that tells me my body is wrong.

As McCarthy’s performance so eloquently proves, there wa…

I wouldn’t know Cardi B if she walked up and punched me. Nor do I really care to.

Because it’s all a zero sum game, you know. If you care about gender neutral language, you can’t care about anything else. Never mind that the fight for gender neutral terms is important to non-binary and genderqueer recognition as well as ‘classic’ feminism. But I’m An Old so what do I know?