Teddi and Kyle were 100% homophobic. From the moment that Brandi said that she and Denise slept together, Kyle (pretending to pack) with her gaping mouth and wide eyes had a reaction that wasn’t about Denise cheating on Aaron or Denise lying (because Denise had not lied at that point)- it was straight up homophobic.…

“The baffling, ludicrous, utterly unserious claim that a guy joshing you on Twitter is anything close to “totalitarian regimes” is absolutely insane, but it’s also a good indicator of where, precisely, Stephens is operating from: a sense that any personal slight to him, no matter how small, is nothing less than a…

I once read some interview with one of the show’s writers that said Doherty was the writing room’s favorite because she was a pro who would always inflect the line exactly as written, and that a lot of the cast hate for her was founded in petty jealousy for how good she was at her job. She had a photographic memory,…

Hot Take-Rome Was Bad up above makes a good argument about the fiscal cost of being out in the eighties and nineties and how it can feel when the “babies” come along and snap up relatively cushy lifestyles and acceptance while you’ll never be able to retire. It’s a good and important point, I think.

Gaytekeeping?

Yeah, it is judgmental. It’s also often coming from people who made a different choice, to come out younger to light a path for the people still in the closet, who suffered to make space for the people who had the privilege to wait and lie about their identity and gain power in society by doing so.

Thanks for articulating this in a way I couldn’t. Super cool to be felt like an outsider all of your life in the straight world, but even cooler to enter the gay community and then be derided because you’re not the “right type of gay”.

Peck’s column popped up in my newsfeed on Saturday and I read it all the way through. Within its text, one thing became clear to me (me: a 57 year old gay man who went through the early 90s in NY and LA - and all that meant, too): Peck is stuck in a time and place and suffering from arrested development. I’d wager…

Thanks for the perspective, but you really don’t think that a historically progressive magazine like The New Republic publishing an article that argues that because a gay politician came out relatively later in life than the current norm, he won’t be able to focus on his job because he’ll be too busy exploring his…

Is it possible that it’s maybe not outright homophobia, but still pretty shitty to criticize someone for not being gay the way you want them to be (politician or not)?

...even though Butler looks nothing like the King of Rock and Roll to me.

Well this gay man found parts of the article to be quite homophobic. Calling a gay man “Mary” in an attempt to degrade and belittle him is pretty textbook homophobia.

Randomly found myself at one of her shows circa 2011/2012 and was really impressed with how well she was able to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes. She’s just dull, evidently quite dim, and a kewpie edgelord persona ain’t ever gonna change that. I hate how much Janelle Monáe collaborates with her, it makes me…

Yes. There was more exploration, intelligent conversation, and moral philosophizing in the last two weeks than basically any Trek since the rare good episode of Voyager (or Enterprise’s final year if you want to be kind). First Handlen said Discovery was too unlike TNG. Now it’s too similar to old Trek. Which is it?

Tonight’s episode was great. I haven’t felt this giddy about Star Trek since I was 12 and Voyager was still a thing. I guess Discovery isn’t for everyone.

...I’m really struggling with Tilly...

Another for the “bizarrely angry Discovery review” pile. This one is better at seeming like it’s not a “waaaaah this doesn’t make me feel like TNG made me feel when I was 9" screed than the ones on Reddit, but that’s all this is.

With respect, seriously, you need to go back over this piece and make some corrections.

It sounds like Average Anna has a pretty good time until she gets married and has kids.  That was obviously her mistake.