You don’t have to click, because it’s the Daily Mail, but Emma Thompson has forgiven Helena Bonham Carter for humping Kenneth Branagh back when Ken and Em were were married. No word on if she’s forgiven Branagh.
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I am not even giving you the opportunity to click, please type “Richard Cohen racist” into Google News and click only on literally any article not by Richard Cohen. Richard Cohen is a fucking idiot and hates people of colour and should be fired: discuss!
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Hero has bitch wife, needs help. Who do you think the famous writer is on p.2?
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Hero has two bitch wives, needs help. Oh, just set it all on fire today, Jesus. I’m done.
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Trans women in women’s washrooms: an imagined harm.
And they think they’re the ones who are uncomfortable? They’re the ones who are “a little bit nervous”? We’re the ones who have to live in the constant fear that just using the restroom might mean encountering someone who doesn’t like how our faces look, how our voices sound, how our necks are shaped, or how tall we are. We have to live with the possibility that at any moment, no matter how unimpeachable our behavior may be, cis people can single us out, question the legitimacy of our gender, and make such an issue of it that it becomes a worldwide headline. And the world will think we’re the ones who did something wrong. We fear this because it’s actually happened countless times before, and it’s certainly going to happen again.
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After the session, Joshua came to the front of the stage and asked to speak with me in private. He told me he was born in a prison and that he’d been held back in school. Twice. He didn’t belong in junior high anymore. It made him feel like a loser. But he wanted me to know that he wrote stories sometimes. About San Antonio gangs. When he asked if I’d be willing to read the one he’d just finished, I told him I’d love to. “But you’ll have to get it to me quick,” I said. “They’re about to shuttle me to the next school.”
He sprinted off toward his locker on the other side of campus.
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For art nerds, the Impressionist Two Step:
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The curmudgeon’s guide to The Sound of Music.
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