Gender ⁽¹⁰⁾

The manbox does not give up its captives lightly. Consider Andrew O'Hagan, who wrote this tragic piece for the NY Times magazine a couple weeks ago. O'Hagan has got the weepies, he's got 'em bad. He's not allowed to smoke or absorb other carcinogens or eat bags…

As you might have read, I am no great fan of "verbing" -- the act of changing words that are different parts of speech into verbs by simply using them that way. To quote Calvin, "it weirds language." But I heard a word verbed recently…

I spent a few years of Saturday mornings escorting patients at a Planned Parenthood clinic from the parking lot to the door.  A clinic escort's main task is to draw the patients' attention away from the ugliness of the perennial clinic protesters.  The filth those…

South Carolina state Senator Thomas Corbin (R - of course) was quoted last week by a site called FITSNews, speaking to his lone female colleague, Katrina Shealy, regarding her gender. Just as I was absorbing this, I saw that Mississippi Rep. Gene Alday (R - acist)…

Mary Cheney saw the previews for RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7, and flipped out.  Although out as a lesbian herself, she can usually be found attacking LGBTQ communities to make political hay for those who trade on the Red base's homophobia.  She wrote, This is an…