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ur mom revere me all night like paul revere

there are critics treated with great reverence?

just bill james

Not so much an opinion as a gut reaction, but the term "queer" still makes me uncomfortable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsmR1OVjs0s

Frederik knows less about US politics than Trump

Not so much an opinion as a gut reaction, but the term "queer" still makes me uncomfortable

― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee),

in what sense? As a portmanteau, I prefer it to LBTQ, largely b/c I don't drink alphabet soup.

i wonder if it depends on how old you are. this is how i heard it all the time when i was a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dKpHtc9F9M

so in a way, subconsciously, queer will always = wrong in a way? wrong like archie and the hundreds of other people i heard for decades. but i don't really think of him every time i hear or see the word.

i am glad i lived long enough to see queer duck. and jeez just see and hear so many things i never thought i'd see or hear. we've come a long way baby. ellen is selling her 45 million dollar villa!

an out and proud woman is the biggest thing on t.v. and worth 400 million dollars!

sorry i don't have anything controversial...

oh, wait: england is a fag country. there.

Morbs' take completely uncontroversial imo

Scott gets it...I'm of the age where "queer" is still a derogatory word used by Archie Bunker (and my dad, on occasion) back in the old days. I was having this very discussion with my best friend (who happens to be gay) some months ago, talking about my discomfort with the word, and I explained that I understood the theoretical process of an oppressed group wanting to reclaim a pejorative as an affirmative term...and he explained that that wasn't the point at all, that it was more of an umbrella term for LGBT-related issues, and so in theory I get it. But it still bothers me.

(Still, give me a few more years and I'll have gotten comfortable with it, the way it took my younger sister ridiculing me to get me to start referring to pot as weed)

an out and proud woman is the biggest thing on t.v. and worth 400 million dollars!

who? Ellen? (i've never liked her much and her recent cuddlyism with Dubya hawking his paintings, blechhh)

I still heard "queer" as a derogatory term in the 80s and 90s, probably even the 00s? Do engineering students still sing that drinking song?

"who? Ellen?"

yeah, ellen. oprah is worth 3 billion but i think she's still in the closet.

in case you know anyone who is house-hunting in santa barbara:

http://www.sothebyshomes.com/Santa-Barbara-Real-Estate/sales/0114121

IDK if it's an age thing. In my undergrad gender studies class in 2009 or 2010, some of the (straight) students were horrified by the professor's use of the term "queer," because they only knew of it as a pretty nasty slur.

I started seeing less wincing when "Q" joined LGBT. I just use "queer" to avoid the alphabet soup.

i was chastised by a professor in 2006 for describing something as queer in joyce's ulysses in a lit class

"Queer" is so commonplace within academia (at least now, and at least in some departments) that I often forget, when teaching first-years, that most of them probably only know it as a slur, so there's always that moment of discomfort the first time I use it in class.

That said, I don't think that it would have ever occurred to me to use "queer" if I wasn't familiar with Queer Theory (as it is still called).

queer theory is definitely a cool term. try saying it ten times fast though.

would love a quare fellowship

My workplace does health work with sex worker organisations, and i'm not comfortable with using the word 'whore' instead of 'sex worker' or 'prostitute', even though it is many's preferred self-description, because it sound as though i'm trying to be colossally offensive

imo it's a self-description that maybe peers are cool using but it feels very much like in-group nomenclature

Yeah, very true

i like Jason Schwartzman

that doesn't seem too controversial!

you need to add another word in there, like 'torturing'

...in bed

yeah, i guess it's true! i remember back in the day when 'jason schwartzman' became a pair of words that more than a few dozen people recognized, the general consensus among friends and acquaintances was that he kind of sucked. but you know what, that guy's alright. plus he's starring in dash shaw's new film so i'm primed to cheer for him.

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I like Zack Braff

trailer for new ZB film looked not too bad

well as not-bad as any bank-robbery-but-they're-social-crusaders comedy can be

James Corden doesn't really bother me.

GET OUT

To be honest I've never seen much of his work, just guest appearances on panel shows and stuff like that, he mainly just laughs. Didn't like The History Boys much but that wasn't really much to do with Corden.

Well done, that is a genuinely controversial opinion.

Jared Kushner is hot.

his brother joshua is hotter

that's not controversial. everyone has at some pt digressed from a Trump trashing convo to "....ok that Ivanka tho"

I didn't write Ivanka though

ivanka and jared both unambiguously good looking

^ trophy moms

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/12/26/16/3BA4148D00000578-0-image-m-50_1482770986469.jpg

Like a baby's leg trevor

Hmm. He's cute in a dime-a-dozen way.

he's cute in a flip-a-dime-off-his-abs way.

Ivanka looks like her father

Yeah, was mostly thinking I was jealous of those abs.

(xpost, obvs)