I’m neither a fan of The Chainsmokers nor T.I., but to suggest T.I. popping one of them in the mouth for an unwarranted kiss has anything to do with his homophobia is just... stupid. There’s a certain irony in Jez pointing out Lovato’s penchant for bad takes while making one of their own within the same damn article.

Lol whut. Your comment prompted me to watch the video, thinking I’m missing something obvious. She doesn’t sound unhinged, she sounds like a frustrated parent being recorded in a bad moment. I’d be pissed too if my preteen child decided to walk into a shop with bare feet like that was a normal thing to do. She took a…

“Whistle toning”?

That’s a great point. I wish civil partnership held as much weight as marriage. 

Just end government recognition of marriage altogether. There shouldn’t be laws governing religious services and I don’t even know that we need civil unions which are just proxies for traditional Judaeo-Christian marriage. Start by treating everyone as individuals for tax purposes. Allow for legal guardian ship of…

I can’t help but notice that Loving v. Virginia is pretty much the only marriage law Thomas isn’t calling out in all his nonsense.

If no-fault divorce was eliminated than almost nobody would get married. Back in their “good old days” society pretty much did not ALLOW an unmarried woman to support herself economically, let alone to pursue personal aspirations. It was either get a husband or face significant, permanent discrimination for being…

WTF is that about the twins? Are you trying to imply there was some kind of incest going on? Or that identical twins look like other sets of identical twins? Or that their kids are going to procreate together? This is the most nonsensical pile of garbage ever. Is it odd that twins married other twins? Sure, I guess.…

The blind Beyoncé worship is bad enough but the ridiculous levels of defensiveness when so much as a whisper of criticism is directed her way is beyond ridiculous. No one is above reproach or questioning or criticism. People need to stop with that nonsense. If she’s as fucking brilliant as her fans want us to believe,…

Hold up... Beyonce absolutely deserves to get called out. That Daily Beast article cited above even notes how she’s got a bad habit of using “I” and not “we” when discussing her music. From that article:

Good thing Ne-Yo isn’t a rapper, so you can be properly shocked.

I think legally she’s clear by crediting the writer and producer. Kelis can be mad but if she doesn’t own the rights, it’s not going anywhere.

Yeah, however I am still torn here. Kelis’ voice is not in Beyonce’s track as far as I can hear, she has zero songwriting credits on the original track so is not necessarily owed any more than anyone else involved in making it, and there would have been many others. Also, I generally think Kelis seems pretty cool.

From the post: “Imagine being villainized simply for venting you didn’t want to continue working on a project you’ve already given five years of your life to, in a moment of frustration.”

I agree. People are so eager to criticize and jump all over people online. A friend of my posted the comment on an article (I don’t recall what it was about.. something inconsequential) “Happy wife, happy life”. Two people in particular jumped all over him about it - saying it was sexist I guess. Anyway, little did…

“Speaking of, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton will release Gutsy, a docuseries highlighting powerful women. One thing about the Clintons, they have a knack for delivering exactly what no one asked for.”

It’s not just you. I worked for a midwifery organization and they explicitly put out a memo saying that their efforts to make language more inclusive would not involve removing the term ‘woman’ from the language, because the midwifery profession is very much aware of its history and that it provided a counterpoint to…

I will never have children and I still don’t like the idea of doing away with woman/women, for any reason. And I think a lot of women feel similarly and this is really a ridiculous hill to die on, one that will alienate more people than anything else, and - because the left sucks at messaging and thinks shaming and…

Well said. Thank you. And I like your use of “And”, which is far more inclusionary than eliminating the word woman.

I’m fine with “women and birthing people” or “women and menstruators” or any other term people want, but I’m not ready to give up on woman/women because women are still struggling to achieve equal rights and the word’s existence doesn’t preclude that of people with other gender identities, but they can be listed in…