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  • You could easily change the headline to "Out of touch old people you forgot about and still think it's 1975"

  • I have a little bit of sympathy for people who are from another era, and are stubborn but not intentionally hateful or dismissive. The Bette Midler quote is the only example from this article. Before, she’d never come across as someone who judges people or wants to treat them like second class citizens.

    She should have kept her mouth shut, at least. Although making an uninformed remark is quicker and easier than educating yourself, I wish she had taken the time.

    Santana, however, can kiss my ass.

    • I have a little bit of sympathy for people who are from another era

      I don't. Trans people are a new thing for me too, they didn't "exist" in my formative years. I grew up in Oklahoma surrounded by conservative Bible-belt redneck N-word-spouting family, at a public school where "gay" and "hermaphrodite" were used as gym insults. I'm a straight-passing white cis male with pretty blue eyes, the least oppressed motherfucker out here and a perfect candidate for growing up to be a shitty supremacist.

      Yet I'm the farthest thing from one, because all it actually takes is asking myself "Why should I have a problem with this? Does it affect anyone other than the person being made happier?" When the answer comes up as "no," it's A-OK in my book. And don't get me started on the pricks who think "but I'm Christian!!!" is an excuse for anything, God is supposed to judge us, not my asshole neighbor Karen who grew up on leaded gas and cigarettes.

      • Cool. Maintaining flexibility is hard. I wish more people were better at it.

        Part of my “cut them a bit of slack” attitude comes from personal experience. I’ve been watching an otherwise good person shift gradually further right. Since retirement, they watch TV almost constantly, which unfortunately includes Fox News (I was going to say “too much Fox News”, but any amount of that crap is too much).

  • This feels like giving these people—some of whom you haven't otherwise thought of in years—free press for being pieces of shit.

    Why not do write ups on people not sucking?

  • The only comment that did not surprise me from this list was the one from Macy Gray. I loved her music a lot when her first album dropped; then made the mistake of going to one of her shows. I was pretty disappointed by her behaviour on stage due to some of her comments, which let's just say were less than kind for some people in the audience.

  • Oh for fuck's sake. Everybody needs to calm down. Why is everyone starting using a magnifying glass to find any comment by a celebrity that doesn't 100% align with their own beliefs.

    It seems like the word transphobe is slapped onto anyone and anything that offers a dissenting opinion or doesn't align completely with this week's LGBTQ newsletter.

    I support LGBTQ rights. But I don't agree with everything. This "you're either with us or against us" rhetoric is basically the same as the republicans use.

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