I usually mostly agree with your comments, but on this, I completely disagree. I don’t think gay black men have the support and community around them that gay white men do.
This is no different than any other thing in our society that is affected by white privilege/racism/whatever you want to call the fact that black…

I have so many questions.

Now that’s just obvious.

she publicly defended the Trump administration’s separation of children from their families at the border, at times describing people attempting to cross the border as a “violent mob of migrants.”

Looks like an Aquapet!

She’s 1/4 Spraytanese on her mother’s side.

I feel like so much of this could be solved if these people got the shit beat out of them just once in their younger years. Seriously. I really do. 

It’s also largely about respect. I use they/them, and people that respect me do their best to remember and apologize when they flub. People who argue about grammar don’t respect my wishes.

The headline on Fox:

The fact that it is a social construct makes it meaningful. That’s what meaning is, the things we socially determine to be meaningful. When we talk about gender as a social construct, we’re talking about how its traditionally defined boundaries are not immutable. That because we constructed it, we can also reconstruct…

Person: “Hey, boss, someone called while you were at lunch!”

FWIW, I have friends who are linguists who like to point out that a lot of our grammatic rules come from the mid-19th century when a lot of newly posh Brits decided to whip the language into shape (and distinguish themselves from the common rabble) by stealing rules from Latin. This is where we get things like not…

I wasn’t implying better, just different!

The public school grammarian in me still bristles at the singular they, but I’m working on getting over it. Its use since the 1300s is a good point: singular they predates anything you’d recognize as the English language, and has been in and out of style but never out of usage.

On the one hand, this is cool. On the other, I guess I took for granted that while this was never explicitly a thing, using “they” when you weren’t sure of someone’s gender was just the thing that made the most sense. 

Facials for all, no bull.

“And All That Jizz.”

I’m from the same town as him. Hearing him use our accent in Gone in 60 Seconds was so meaningful and encouraging after a few years in my late teens of being told I would never get anywhere in life without voice training to get rid of my accent.  Whenever people slag off that film I take it very personally.  

Low would’ve been great to see again.

A Low show in ‘96 was the weirdest show I’ve ever attended. It started out Standing Room Only, morphed into Sitting Room Only, and by the time they got to Do You Know How To Waltz every single member of the audience was lying down on the floor.