Spotted on Facebook: Left side: Photo of Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine. Caption: “Pretending to be awoman: Must accept and approve of”Right side: Photo of Rachel Dolezal. Caption: “Pretending tobe black: Unacceptable!! We disapprove” The people I see most often making the equivocation/slippery slope argument between “acceptance” of transgenderism and “acceptance” … Read more
I was all set to write a post on TERFS, right before Caitlyn Jenner came out. I had several paragraphs written, comparing trans-exclusionary radical feminism to regular transphobia, explaining how regular transphobia tends to be rooted in religious belief and social conservatism, whereas TERFism comes more from a second wave feminist idea of a sisterhood … Read more
A commenter at Dispatches From the Culture Wars remarks, in response to conversation about Kobe Bryant’s recent $100,000 fine for calling a referee a “fucking faggot”: Most people who fight for ‘equal rights’ do it because they, or people close to them, are members of the group being discriminated against. They fight – and this … Read more
I realize that I could dedicate this entire blog to making fun of stupid things on Fox and Friends and have more than enough material every day. I don’t want to do that, because a) there are other things to talk about, and b) doing so would require actually watching more Fox and Friends. So I’m going to … Read more