C’mon, it’s not even a creative insult. It almost always happens like this. I’m walking down the street and some guy honks his horn or shouts out of the side of his car. Or maybe he’s walking down the street toward me and grins and makes some kind of comment. “Hey, baby.” I don’t even […]
My whole life, people have been telling me I’m “too much.” Bullshit. The first time I remember feeling like people were afraid of me, I was 6 years old. I was at the dinner table, and I was mad about something – whatever 6-year-olds get mad about, probably some perceived injustice having to do with my being […]
Making fun of “closet cases” only reinforces homophobia. There’s a lot of division in the American left these days. In a time of political crisis like the one we face today, when every moment is an emergency and the difference between a good and a just-OK strategy may be life and death, it’s understandable that […]
Rather than letting someone shame you, wear your sexuality as a badge of honor. Being a slut is not a bad thing. Are you a woman? Do you have sex? If you answered “yes” to these two questions, then someone, somewhere, thinks you are a slut. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a slut is “a […]
