Bathroom Panic And the Lies of Transphobes
The religious right is obsessed with public restrooms. All the rest of us go into them, do our business, and leave, giving little thought to any of the strangers we may briefly share that physical...
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Transgender actress Laverne Cox, whose breakthrough role is in the part of Sophia in the Netflix original series Orange Is The New Black, is the cover girl on this week’s TIME magazine, which carries...
View ArticleOriginally a Newspaper.
The Daily Mail never fails to live down to my expectations. It’s a century-old London tabloid, and it’s guilty of some of the worst sensationalist excesses of the type. Its online content is shared...
View ArticleHear that? That’s the Culture Shifting.
After the Bruce Jenner interview on ABC, in which Jenner came out as transgender and Republican, the conservative National Review Online aggregated a few tweets about mean, mean liberals expressing...
View ArticleCredit where it’s due.
I don’t understand why people are always saying Republicans don’t like minorities. They seem to really love the minority of scientists who doubt anthropogenic climate change, the minority of scientists...
View ArticleSkeptical Dragons.
This past Labor Day weekend I attended Dragon Con, the ginormous science fiction and pop culture convention, which includes a programming track known as the SkepTrack (“Skeptics at Dragon Con”). Run by...
View ArticleMistakes.
On August 20 of this year, Monica Cole, director of One Million Moms, a subsidiary of religious right hate group the American Family Association, made this post to the AFA’s website: God Doesn’t Make...
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