I agree completely that questions about bodies and surgeries need to end, but Mock's book is titled, in part, "My Path to Womanhood." The official book jacket says it is a book about growing up as a trans girl.

When you write a book explicitly about your experience growing up trans and transitioning to womanhood,…

This guy is like an Onion article that went sentient.

No this not "the exact same situation". It's similar in some ways and quite different in key aspects. See what I'm saying? Feel free to call your teacher a slave owner. We'll all assess the situation and see if its an apt comparison. Just avoid telling people how to talk and derail discussions with your petty "No…

I just took a course on the history of the Holocaust

Did you boss express a specific racial prejudice against you and did he use slave owner language to justify his mistreating you and those of your race? I don't think the comparison is the problem. I think your deficient understanding of analogies is the problem.

How many times can a modern person use the exact language used to express the benevolent slave owner myth in the antebellum South before idiots like you stop complaining that we shouldn't compare them to slave owners. "I support them and give them food, and clothes, and cars, and houses. Who gives it to them? Does…

I don't think you should self righteously use the ghosts of slaves to tell people what they should and shouldn't say. Slavery, the holocaust, Hiroshima and every other historical catastrophe you can name should be alive and well in our discourse and we should always be relearning the lessons our ancestors died to…

Couldn't agree more. I think the interesting angle to this story is "Man, why wasn't he better at hiding it? Is he a dummy?" but being sloppy/stupid is miles different from being disrespectful to the legacy of Ted William's frozen head. HOW DARE HE DESECRATE FENWAY?

Rape-apologist trolls are among the worst trolls.

Redemption doesn't mean pretending it didn't happen. Redemption is the fact that he's no longer in jail and is playing Major League Baseball. Redemption doesn't mean that people don't have the right to talk about it, and it certainly doesn't mean that somebody has the right to dictate whether other people talk about…

I disagree that the Spurs can't afford to rest Parker in the first round. They have dominated Dallas, who they just beat without him yesterday, and Phoenix and Memphis aren't that scary either. Patty mills has also been a pretty effective scorer, a bit of volume guy, but he has skills. I say, if Parker is at all…

Listen, fuck face, I would have loved to embed the video of the highlight, but the clip on MLB's site is currently "not available for sharing." And if we rip the video and post it on our own, we get a cease and desist letter. So take it up with them.

There is no aspect of the story that is not heartbreaking: this woman epitomizes how difficult it is to claw your way out of crippling poverty and the many "damned if you do, damned if you don't" choices one has to make in doing so. Her children were in real danger. Very real, very serious danger, and that should not…

Bonds' 762 should have an asterisk beside it, and that asterisk should reference a note at the very bottom of the list, and that note should read "762 is greater than 755".

Israel has always been a bit strange with regards to basketball. Why, back in the 80s, they didn't even like Jordan.

I like this guy. I like him a lot. Derek values his education and his floormates' study capabilities more than he values people screaming because some dudes threw a ball into a hoop, and he's not afraid to stand up and tell the world, despite the fact that most people value sportsballs going into hoops above all else.…

I don't know, the Christian Conservative community was much more mellow back in 3500 B.C.

Good for Boomer. That's a REAL apology, not the usual "sorry if I offended anyone" fauxpology that has become the refuge of those who say dumb stuff.

SPORTS! Because the sports thing is the thing above all other things in the history of things!

Well, it mostly debunks the idea that men are all flattered and not made uneasy at all by random sexual comments from attractive women. All candid camera reporting is a little hostile to the targets. I hope their consent was obtained before putting this up.