I get that people are offended but calling RuPaul transphobic is a bit much. His whole life has been dedicated to bringing the LGBT community forward. So now because some people feel he isn't as PC as they feel he should be, he's transphobic?

Quite frankly: I like you, but you are wrong. You do not own this terminology. Any man who dresses in women's clothes—and that is what a drag queen is—faces bigotry. RuPaul can talk about that experience as much as she wants, in whatever terminology she wants. You do not own the terminology. You do not own the humor…

A frank one?

I think that that calling him a cliché invokes the "older man trades in wife for younger model" narrative. I think that narrative is demeaning because it seems to presumes that women can be traded like pokemon cards. In assuming that the younger woman is something the man "traded for," it makes her his commodity and…

I used to think it was feminist. Now I'm mostly just peeved that it calls itself feminist, but perpetuates rampantly anti-woman concepts.

You go ahead and keep devaluing women's roles to that of a pawn to be traded in for. Hope you feel great about your contribution to feminism today.

There's a LOT to unpack in that comment. The assumption that a May/December is necessarily a leverage of resources to acquire a younger model is really offensive and I encourage you to think further on that.

Erasing Heard's agency from the narrative reinforces stigmatization (by way of calling it "cliche") and devaluation of women's choices.

Right. Which Amber Heard did, as much as Johnny Depp. Saying that he's "falling into the same behavior he mocked in others" and losing regard for him because he entered into a mutual, consensual adult relationship does not acknowledge her agency in entering the relationship. It's a patriarchal narrative.

In the glory days, a copywriter would proudly say "copywriter." These bros are obviously pretending to be now-struggling, later-Letheming novelists. when in fact they are non-struggling copywriters (even if they are struggling "on the side").

And so rock 'n' roll. This guy really knows what appeals to us youth.

I'm 3 minutes in and I keep thinking it will get better. I have lost faith that it will. I need Jesus to save this.

"CREATIVE POLYGLOT WEDS CULTURAL PHENOMENON IN STUNNING CEREMONY ATTENDED BY GEOGRAPHICALLY NAMED INFANT." This is the zenith of English prose.

Autocorrect thought that was what I meant to type, too ...

I'm impressed that Stella McCartney actually designed anything that could be classified as cute.

I'm don't really have the philosophical chops to wade into this argument; but I'll just say that, IMO, maintaining the bodily integrity of infants and young woman is, empirically, "the right thing".

Fuck cultural sensitivities. The only reason foot binding was so quickly and effectively banned in china is that Mao not only banned it, it was swiftly and vigorously enforced without any regard to cultural sensitivities. Harmful cultural practices have to be eradicated and the only way to do it is to remove tha taboo…

Cue the cultural relativists showing up swinging out of the woodwork. :)

Well, one thing that I think contributed to me changing my mind was the fact that I worked exclusively with people who were in their late thirties and older. This means that I worked with people who were about to or had lost their parents. They all had siblings that were heavily involved in their care. (If they…

That's not kindergarten, that's the Pantheon.