By Laura Jeanne Poon

I marched in Chicago’s Gay Pride parade with an women’s organization, and witnessed a lot of this hostile, misogynistic groping perpetrated by gay men on women marchers.

JEMAINE not JERmaine

Forbes has a good analysis on how this movie wouldn’t be expected to do that well, no matter what the surrounding controversy. Black audiences want the same thing white audiences want when they go to the movies:a fun escape.

I blame opera for that one

I think standing ovations at Sundance (and Cannes) are a dime a dozen. They have stopped being festivals for film-lovers (if they ever truly were) and are now premiers for the hype-cycle.

God, that music sucks.

Here’s another face-palm moment, courtesy of Sanchez’ Wikipedia entry:

Harris would be the second African American woman in the Senate, Carol Moseley Braun being the first. She was a huge disappointment, but then we Illinoisans got Obama.

A friend recently announced at a condo meeting that she and her husband make regular runs to a recycling center, and would be glad to take other residents’ recyclables with them-space allowing. The one uber right wing resident got all huffy and said “Well, we don’t believe in recycling, so NO.” She was momentarily…

When you are less raw, read chumplady.com. It is full of your brethren and sistren and righteous laughter

My middle-aged brother got a FB virus that kept tagging his friends with a link to porn. I cleaned his desktop of the offending insatiable Brazilian anal porn file. I am his kid sister.

Who are you people without leg hair? I guess not everybody has a Sephardic grandmother.

Jared Harris. For fucks sake.

Yes, in a way she’s a stand-in for her audience: white, liberal people with good intentions. (And now we can add straight, cis-gendered)

Terry is far from perfect. I remember her having trouble (when interviewing Ta Nehisi Coates) getting her mind around the concept that black boys’ experience being chastised by a teacher might be humiliating on a whole other level. As a white woman (and a former teacher, I believe) she was preoccupied with the…

My husband bikes in Chicago streets. I will not do it--it’s too dangerous. Helmets are a nice idea, but they don’t protect against roll-overs. We’ve had at least two biker deaths recently due to them falling under the wheels of a large vehicle. Nope nope nope

Rhonda Pasek’s FB shows her with her with several children and grandchildren, all of whom will be mocked and harassed by tormenters using this image. Her behavior was inexcusable, but the LPD’s decision to post an unblurred photo has made it infinitely worse for her family.

Tell him it’s no fun when the hookers aren’t there

no, it’s because it quotes NYP, which is useless