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The Five Defends Chris Rock’s 9/11 Jokes: We’re Not the ‘Comedy Police’ | Mediaite. I’m OK with the way Chris Rock handled this. His jokes expressed some empathy with the victims, laid bare his own fears, and criticized the trend of commercializing holidays. I don’t think any topic should be automatically off limits to comedy…
Thinking about the bathroom access objections to transgender rights- the idea that men would suddenly dress as women to access womens bathrooms and commit sexual assault. One, there’s precious little evidence this happens often. I wouldn’t be shocked if it has, somewhere, but it’s clearly not remotely common. If it was, I’d expect long lists…
Fox Panelist Apologizes for Comments About Japanese Internment | Mediaite. At most, he successfully made the point that profiling doesn’t automatically mean we lose a war. I’m also wondering how he draws a parallel between what someone looks like, and an ideology. The example is horribly flawed, even if all he was trying to show…
Reading Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Shiri Eisner. I’m still early in the book, and trying to withhold final judgement, but there have been a few points where I’m thinking “Fuck you, I’m not a weapon in your silly revolution”. Some of this may be more writing style than a criticism on the…
Just ran across a new initialism. “GSM”. Not the cell phone network type- “Gender and Sexual Minorities”. Roughly equivalent to LGBT, it seems. I think I like it more. While less specific, it also seems to be more inclusive. I’ve seen extensions of “LGBT” that attempt to improve inclusivity, but these quickly spiral out of…
Picked this one up on Amazon for all of 99 cents. By Shiri Eisner Started reading it- It’s interesting. It opens with an explanation of the authors view of radical politics- taking things down to the root of the problem and attacking it there, with little to no regard for existing power structures- viewing them…
Pat Sajak Thinks You’re an “Unpatriotic Racist.” This Response Is Perfect. | Mother Jones. Racism? Really? If you are looking at the facts and deciding they best support climate change, that’s not racist. Not at all. I suppose there might be racist reasons for believing in it, and certainly proposed responses might be tainted by…
Boris backs BBC DJ over Sun Has Got His Hat On racism row – Yahoo News UK. For a mistake he was willing to apologize for on the air, I don’t think this should have gotten to the point of firing. An ass chewing, sure, and a note in his personnel file that would count…
So. Chilk Fil A. I decided not to eat there because of Dan Cathy being a jackass and some of their corporate giving being a bit quesitonable. Mostly the latter. Whatever companies you spend money at, some of your money is going to get into the paychecks of people who will use it in ways…
If I believe certain twitter feeds, Sterlings girlfriend behaving unethically in creating that recording absolves Sterling of any guilt of his own for what he said. I haven’t really dug in deeply enough to judge her ethics in this situation for myself, but seriously? He said or did not say those things, they were or were…