Most of these examples are not trans-friendly drag depictions.

Klinger dressed in women's clothing to "prove" to the Army that he was crazy and should be sent home.
*** THIS IS NOT A TRANS-FRIENDLY CROSS-DRESSING CHARACTER! ***

Bosom Buddies was about two men who couldn't find affordable housing as men so they dressed as women to live in a women's only boarding house.
*** THIS IS NOT A FRIENDLY DEPICTION OF CROSS-DRESSERS! In fact, it's super creepy in a world where we are discussing if trans women can use women's bathrooms and the #MeToo movement. ***

After long-standing traditions of men dressed as women in Greek and Shakespearean theater, one of the first and most celebrated contemporary cross-dressing comedies was the 1892 play Charley’s Aunt. Originally written for the English stage, it was translated into over 80 languages, spawning multiple film adaptations and the hit Broadway musical Where’s Charley? Its basic premise relied on a heterosexual man needing to assume the guise of a woman, with the comedy ensuing from the juxtaposition of the challenges to his masculinity. Cross-dressing out of necessity creating laughs rooted in traditional gender identity continued as a reliable comic premise for the next century, from Billy Wilder’s 1959 classic Some Like It Hot, to Tom Hanks’s breakout 1980s sitcom Bosom Buddies. Even in these memorable projects, the formula remained the same: straight men in women’s clothes speaking in high-pitched voices equals laughs. Mainstream society accepted that there were hard borders on masculine and feminine identity. To cross them and then bear the consequences of doing so always resulted in high concept hijinks and hilarity.

Conservatives live in such a weird bubble in their heads.

The J6 Committee is in error because the GOP thinks it moved "its expected focus on former President Trump with their concentration on Capitol security". The two are not unrelated.

And also, two years later, they're more pissed off about the Committee's work than what happened on J6. Which means they have pretty much admitted J6 was an insurrection of their making because otherwise, wouldn't they be defending the actions of all the "proud patriots" who participated? We see through you, naked empererors.

This.

As a librarian, I'm committed to increasing literacy. And at the same time, I realize that spelling is a human construct and the point of language is to get your meaning across. Does it really matter how a word that sounds like "marshall" is spelled? Literacy includes understanding words through context. Grammar police posts are a form of institutionalized racism/systemic oppression, designed and codified as much for keeping the elite in power as for conveying information.

That is absolutely not true.

Different religions pray in different ways. Some prayers are vocal and require movement. To claim otherwise is both religiously ignorant and intolerant. It’s based solely on US-centered experiences with compulsory Christian prayers that Madalyn Murray O'Hair fought against. A voluntary prayer room is not the same thing at all.

Signed,
An Atheist with a Masters of Divinity

"Distrust in the political system" has morphed into distrust of the educational system.

Because the most effective way to spread info is in compulsory elementary schools. Because US schoolchildren are mostly taught facts, those who have internalized the Big Lie think public schools push liberal propaganda. Or more precisely, they want to use the schools to push their propaganda, so they assume that’s what liberals are doing. The difference being, of course, liberal education is reality-based and strives toward equity.

Me!!

Technically considered a boomer, born into a solidly boomer family in 1964. Gen X is supposed to start in 1965. But let me tell you, my life experience has been Gen X all the way. My mom worked outside the home from the time I was three, whereas she had been a stay-at-home mom for my sisters (10 and 7 years older than me). As a young adult, I was a Microsoft trainer before the mouse was invented (I also used a typewriter for part of that job as certain things had to be on regular paper, and not on dot-matrix-edged printer paper). My understanding and engagement with politics is completely above my family of origin (who vote Democratic but don't pay much attention otherwise). My sisters were anti-Jim Crow, where I am firmly and antiracist. Etc.

Excellent recap of US history's other Big Lie, the Lost Cause.

The argument against the Lost Cause version of history is laid out methodically and logically while also being easily accessible and even humorous at times. Well done!

Could have done without the zombie confederates at the end, that was just stupid and gratuitously, needlessly long. It's not even original; I've been calling MAGA "confederate zombies" for a few years now.

VERDICT: If you're only interested in the history and/or are short on time, you can skip the last 5 minutes of it. (The whole video runs over 36 minutes, but you could easily stop at 30 minutes and not miss a factual thing.)

Fitzmas brings me back!

Back to when DU had its own version of Urban Dictionary and every acrymym and inside joke had an entry. I remember the McConnell entry was just a photo like this:





Seriously, tho. How do newer DUers keep up? And kudos on an excellent post.

Right. And the last time I looked at a map,

Egypt is in Africa - a continent, apart from the Middle East.

He bought Twitter to kill it.

What a fantastic tax write off! Such a loss leader! Plus, it takes down an organizing and verified news platform for the left. No one buys a company, fires shitloads of people, and tells remaining staff they’ll work them like slaves unless they 100% intend to kill the company.