Check Your Privilege, Facebook! Social Media Giant Slights Members of 51st GenderBy Alec TorresFebruary 13, 2014 4:34 PMComments0
As Patrick Brennan recently discussed on the Corner, it’s getting harder to know how to refer to another person’s gender(s). Now, Facebook is making it even harder.
The Associated Press recently broke the news that Facebook now offers users a customizable gender option with about 50 different gender-identifying terms people can use to describe themselves along with three separate pronoun choices: him, her, or them.
The grammatical debate over the application of the plural pronoun “them” to a single subject aside, it’s a sad sign of the times that Facebook excluded whatever the 51st gender descriptor is, thus committing a hate crime against the dozens of people who probably describe themselves with said descriptor.
How dejected — nay depressed — must flexual people feel knowing that Facebook now accepts cisgender females, Trans*Men, and Trans*Males (don’t worry, the distinctions elude me, too) but not them and their girlfag peers.
Or what of all the trigender people who find out that Facebook will let one choose up to “bigender” but not beyond. They must be at least a third as offended as the flexuals.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 February 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
it gives me pleasure to think how bad these assholes are gonna hate the future
― joe perry has been dead for years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 13 February 2014 21:45 (ten years ago) link
guys, we're over here: NRO's The Corner: Obamacare ‘like a house on fire’ with more flammable parts yet to come
MODS?
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 February 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
xpost amenfuck y'all str8 men
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:18 (ten years ago) link
jesus christ, that Charles C. W. Cooke 'satire' piece has its head so far up its ass, it could probably discover three or four new genders just by opening its eyes
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
I used to be way into subjecting myself to the internet conservative cesspool; nice to see that the quality of the prose hasn't slipped:
Among her most enthusiastic boosters is Cecile Richards, daughter of the late Texas governor, who is paid nearly a half-million dollars a year for her work defending the surgical dismemberment of unborn children in the furtherance of sexual convenience.
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:33 (ten years ago) link
... And You Will Know Her by the Surgical Dismemberment of Unborn Children in the Furtherance of Sexual Convenience
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:34 (ten years ago) link
also, I mean, just, huge roffles at these guys scratching their heads all "The ideology of feminists is incoherent—some of them want one thing, but others want this different thing!! Whatta buncha flighty dames!!!!" (You don't need to keep capitalizing 'feminist' — ED.)
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:39 (ten years ago) link
"why is it okay for Hillary to call other women in politics 'whiny', but not for me, a white man at a computer, to continue dragging Anita Hill's name through the mud??" *tears flow into bib*
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:44 (ten years ago) link
hahahaha
― WilliamC, Saturday, 15 February 2014 04:04 (ten years ago) link
It’s one thing to be tolerant of what once were known as “alternative lifestyles.” It’s another thing to be asked to celebrate them, as the exuberant mythologizers of Michael Sam and Johnny Weir ask us to do. And it is way beyond the pale to hold forth on any sort of sex life — perhaps apart from self-restraint — as if it’s a form of heroism.
Yet the culture of the professional Left, enthusiastically aided by the establishment media, is going bonkers in pushing active homosexuality (or any one of several exotic variants thereof) as an absolute virtue. One can hardly turn around these days without facing, in fiction or in real life, what amounts to homosexual chic. From the amount of primetime air time afforded to gay Americans, one would think they constitute at least a large minority of the population, rather than the 3 to 5 percent they actually do.
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that,” as Seinfeld wisdom had it. Most Americans assuredly don’t much care what other people do as long, as the saying goes, as they “don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses.” And if the Bible tells us it’s a sin, well, we can leave that issue between the putative sinner and a God famous for both judgment and mercy. Our job, speaking spiritually rather than physically, is to love our neighbor, not from some misguided impulse to charity but instead genuinely, as equals — and to worry about not committing our own particular brands of transgression.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 February 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
active homosexuality (or any one of several exotic variants thereof)
ooh do tell!
*fans self*
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 February 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
Steve_Seattle • 33 minutes ago
For liberals, it is an easy step to go from support of fornication, abortion, pornography, and prostitution to support of homosexuality. It costs them nothing, while giving them an opportunity to bash conservatives as bigoted and unenlightened. For that reason alone, the MSM will not soon drop this issue. But I sometimes wonder how sincere is this liberal celebration of homosexuality. In less-guarded forms of liberalism, such as blue-collar liberalism, you still hear gay jokes and gay epithets, and these typically go unchallenged even if the participants don't care much about gay marriage. And in unguarded moments, liberals such as Alec Baldwin resort to gay epithets when they are angry, or will refer to some conservative as a "closet homosexual."
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 February 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
I am looking forward to crowds of conservatives, milling about, holding crude signs and fervently chanting, "Down with fornication!"
― Aimless, Monday, 24 February 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
For liberals, it is an easy step to go from support of fornication, abortion, pornography, and prostitution to support of homosexuality.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kYBdM44_J58/Sa3OeSHaArI/AAAAAAAABbU/k2MeHt1WpXE/s400/PornInUtah.JPG
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/8/27/Screen_Shot_2013-08-27_at_10.00.11_AM.png
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
anita queen?
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
OK, here you go!
http://news.tangatawhenua.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/The-Queen-7.jpg
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link
heelllooo loyal subjects!
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
Quin Hillyer
― goole, Monday, 24 February 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link
In which it is shown that Jay Nordlinger has lost his mind.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
Decline Is a Choice. A Bad One. But People Still Choose It. I Don't Understand It. Decline Is Bad. Hello. Is This On.
― goole, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/vrib3xM.png
― bnw, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link
The best comment I've seen in forever, on Roy Edroso's alicublog about Rich Lowry and this whole Arizona thing:
Also, if you go back to Quin Hillyer on the fainting couch about Johnny Weir gaying up figure skating, this week brings us National Review writers protecting the following from gays: 1) figure skating 2) bakers 3) florists 4) photographers. They can't even figure out which end of the slippery slope is which.
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
Charles Pierce had fun with LOLry: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Brewer_Veto
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
nutrition information labels about to become "a whole lot more intrusive":
These reforms are not minor. The most important change is that they are increasing the size of a serving, so all foods and beverages will immediately appear to be more calorie-laden than before. Anyone watching their calories could be easily caught out by this, and eat less, for instance. But that is irrelevant to the main point at issue here — the role of the First Lady.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
Today's nutrition labels state the size of a serving and the number of calories in a serving of that size. Under the immanent doomsday scenario, nutrition labels will *gasp* state the size of a serving and the number of calories in a serving of that size.
― Aimless, Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
dlh you dropped the best line:
But that is irrelevant to the main point at issue here — the role of the First Lady. As one food-industry insider told Politico, “I don’t think anyone is going to be foolish enough to attack the first lady — that’s just stupid.”
― goole, Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
how wrong you are, food-industry insider
Henry Burlingame • 42 minutes agoHow about a regulation requiring Michelle Obama to put a warning label on her fat ass?
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
With all that exercise and healthy eating? I think not.
― Spaghetti Sauce Shampoo (Moodles), Thursday, 27 February 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link
yeah. i have a crush on FLOTUS, and i'm pretty sure that's the first time in my lifetime i could say that.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 27 February 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
http://www.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/legacy/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/nancy_reagan_mr_t_2.jpg
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 February 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
did nothing for me.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 27 February 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
what about Nancy?
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 February 2014 23:20 (ten years ago) link
I hear she gave Too $hort a blowjob
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 February 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
yeah 'michelle obama is disgustingly hypocritically fat' is one of those rightwing memes that's so mystifying i don't know if it's misogyny or racism or what kind of insanity.
― balls, Friday, 28 February 2014 04:13 (ten years ago) link
"or"
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 28 February 2014 04:41 (ten years ago) link
they also think her clothing style is "trashy"
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 28 February 2014 04:44 (ten years ago) link
racogyny
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Friday, 28 February 2014 09:22 (ten years ago) link
or assholism, that trips off the tongue a little better
Michelle Obama is exquisitely well-dressed.
― A specialist in foolery (Michael White), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
misogyny, racism, and closeted homosexuality :)
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
obama dentata
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
classic headline and byline:
How We Can Make Putin Pay, and Why We MustBy Elliott AbramsMarch 3, 2014 2:44 PM
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 March 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
Putin pays $50 at least
During investigation of the Iran-Contra Affair, Lawrence Walsh, the Independent Counsel tasked with investigating the case, prepared multiple felony counts against Abrams but never indicted him.[24] Instead, Abrams cooperated with Walsh and entered into a plea agreement wherein he pled guilty to two misdemeanors of withholding information from Congress.[25] He was sentenced to a $50 fine, probation for two years, and 100 hours of community service.
― bnw, Monday, 3 March 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
I constantly see Right Wing relatives comparing her to Marie Antoinette and seem to think that the Obamas are living like monarchy while the rest of the US starves which is a little odd to me because nothing they do seems flashy and I think they take fewer vacations than other families in the White House.
― akm, Monday, 3 March 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
They hate success.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 3 March 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
Anyway, last week, I felt a surge of bitterness. Why? I am disliking the current occupant of the White House more than ever. And, on seeing this house, I winced. And then I caught myself: "Come on, Jay. It's still the White House. Presidents come and go. This is a great and glorious country, with a constitution, separation of powers, regular elections . . . Don't have an ‘our planes' attitude." Like others, I suppose, I have to remind myself of this from time to time. I think I'll need ever more frequent reminders in coming years.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
it's just... sometimes it's so hard to be a jingoistic fuckhead, you know?
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
singing "imagine there's no country" at the funeral of a country singer smh
― symsymsym, Thursday, 7 December 2023 05:30 (six months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/HEtfLKO.png
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 February 2024 15:57 (three months ago) link
Now I can't unsee it
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 23 February 2024 16:00 (three months ago) link
missed u boo
Entirely reasonable description of January 6 as an event in which 'many of the...protesters broke the law in what may have started as a protest but turned into a riot.' Especially so in light of absence of DOJ insurrection charges against anyone involved. https://t.co/FfQfKTjYet— Byron York (@ByronYork) April 5, 2024
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 April 2024 19:50 (two months ago) link
probably need a new thread but that site is full of tired cranks griping about woke
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 April 2024 19:51 (two months ago) link
Are you familiar with that old joke from the Eric Andre Show, where the host asks a guest, “Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?” It’s become ironically memetic shorthand for moments when someone expresses an entirely banal or inoffensive opinion. And yet, strangely enough, Fetterman’s position on the Gaza war fits this frame to an almost shockingly perfect degree: It’s both popular among his constituents, and certainly among Americans at large, while also authentically controversial and brave, certainly when compared to where his Democratic peers in the Senate are. I hesitate to speculate about the origins of the seeming change that has come over him, other than guessing that the discipline and strength of character required to recover from a life-altering stroke also suggests a certain willfulness. (To be fair, I do also like my other theory, which is that Chuck Schumer unwittingly leveled him up by stuffing him back into a suit.) Fetterman has clearly demonstrated he is now his own man and also a savvy hand at public relations; I doubt he’s unaware of the political armor his medical situation gives him, and good for him — he’s wearing it straight into battle.
― President Keyes, Friday, 5 April 2024 20:00 (two months ago) link
Ah yes that old joke
― symsymsym, Saturday, 6 April 2024 04:32 (two months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ZpRcTsq.jpeg
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 June 2024 19:44 (one week ago) link
Thought this would be a revive for NRO staking out its anti-Dolly Parton position. Always a good sign when you're trying to rally the troops against a national treasure with universal appeal.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 8 June 2024 04:51 (six days ago) link
oh that was the Federalist not NRO
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 8 June 2024 04:52 (six days ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/opinion/presbyterian-church-evangelical-canceled.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 9 June 2024 15:11 (five days ago) link
yeah I thought this revival would be about that idiot David French realizing the racist church he joined six years ago is racist.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 June 2024 15:14 (five days ago) link
lmao i hate this entire class of pundit just categorically now, i wish they would all get hobbies like gardening or model ship building
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Sunday, 9 June 2024 15:30 (five days ago) link
Seems so nostalgic to even talk about NRO anymore, if it ever meant anything it definitely doesn't in 2024. (Ditto NYT columns, I suppose.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 9 June 2024 17:08 (five days ago) link
I would expect classic NRO to be losing their shit about the criticism of Alito and Thomas.
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Sunday, 9 June 2024 18:25 (five days ago) link