Sexuality

Slate Writer: Trump’s Win ‘Shattered’ White Libs’ ‘Complacency’
December 30th, 2016 5:32 PM
It seems that so much happened in 2016 that some major developments were hardly noticed. For example, L.V. Anderson suggested in a Thursday post that this was the year in which a large portion of the left suddenly was forced to realize that America sucks. “After Trump’s election, it is more or less impossible to believe that we are making meaningful progress,” she wrote. “White liberals who woke…

AP, PolitiFact 'Fact Check' Obvious Obama 'Fake News' Item — From 2015
December 30th, 2016 6:53 AM
Here's an update from the “fake news” front: The Associated Press published an unbylined “Fact Check” of what anyone with an ounce of sense could see is a satirical article published almost 15 months ago.
That’s only the start. PolitiFact also “fact-checked” a December 23, 2016 version it knew was of that same 15 month-old item and gave it a “Pants on Fire" rating. What in the name of Mark…

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Fox's Juan Williams Questions How Conway Can Do Her Job with Four Kids
December 23rd, 2016 2:26 PM
Fox News's Juan Williams apparently had a very bad Thursday morning on Twitter (readers will see why shortly), but out of respect for Kellyanne Conway's wishes seen in the video which follows the jump, I have resisted inspecting the carnage.
Williams reacted to the news that President-Elect Trump has appointed Conway as Counselor to the President by, in Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo's words…

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CNN Still Misinforming Viewers on NC Transgender Bathroom Law
December 22nd, 2016 5:42 PM
Over the past couple of days, as CNN has updated its viewers on efforts to repeal the North Carolina bathroom law, the news network has again been misinforming its audience on whether transgender individuals would be able to arrange to use the public restroom of their preferred gender. Even though North Carolina state law allows people to change their gender designation on their birth certificate…

WashPost, Daily Beast Mark Christmas By Attacking Jesus, Virgin Mary
December 21st, 2016 10:59 PM
The Washington Post and The Daily Beast targeted the dogma of the virgin birth of Jesus to Mary of Nazareth, mere days before Christmas, the holiday where Christians mark this central tenet of their faith. Ruth Everhart claimed in her December 16, 2016 item for the Post's Acts of Faith site that the Christian churches have turned Mary's story into an "idol of sexual purity." Heterodox scholar…

‘Billions’ To Feature First Gender Non-Conforming TV Star
Culture
December 19th, 2016 12:23 PM
Move over, transgenders. There’s a new kid in town. Huffington Post reported that Billions will make “TV history” for featuring the first gender non-conforming star in a mainstream show. Showtime, Billions host network, has a history of pushing boundaries with its leading characters. Season seven of Shameless included a major character who was transgender, played by a transgender actor.

How the Media’s Infatuation with Eichenwald Overlooks His Sordid Past
December 16th, 2016 11:19 AM
Late Thursday afternoon, freelance journalist and editor Sebastian Jones dropped a friendly reminder for Twitter users how the media’s neglecting to recount the disturbing past of Newsweek writer Kurt Eichenwald and instead praising him ad nauseam for his investigative reporting looking into President-elect Donald Trump’s finances and connections to foreign governments.

From LGBT to BLM: Fox’s ‘Star’ Grants Every Liberal Wish
Culture
December 15th, 2016 1:33 AM
Fox’s newest music series Star (a spin-off of Empire) debuted Wednesday and the show is straight out of a liberal fantasyland. The title character, Star (Jude Demorest), is 17-years-old and ready to leave an abusive foster care home in search of her big break as a singer. Finding her younger sister, Simone (Brittany O’Grady), through her social worker, Star tracks her down and promptly murders…

Politico Axes Ioffe for Vulgar Tweet Suggesting Incest in Trump Family
December 14th, 2016 8:43 PM
Late Wednesday afternoon, Politico fired, “effective immediately,” foreign policy contributor Julia Ioffe for a vulgar tweet suggesting that President-elect Donald Trump may be committing incest with daughter Ivanka. It came in light of reports the Trump daughter would occupy the First Lady’s office in her father’s White House. The decision came just prior to her official departure for The…
A New Victim in the War on Small-Biz Bakeries
December 14th, 2016 6:17 PM
It is not enough for family-owned pastry shops to bow to the gay marriage mob. Now, they're being targeted by the social justice mafia. At my alma mater, radical Oberlin College in Ohio (which boasts hapless Baltimore mayor and rioters' champion Stephanie Rawlings Blake and bizarro feminist actress and fake rape accuser Lena Dunham as graduates), the operators of a small-business bakery are under…

'Gender Fluid' Actor Makes 'History,' Submits for Oscar in Two Genders
December 13th, 2016 8:11 PM
Well this is a first. In what is being touted as “Oscar history,” a gender-fluid actor could potentially be the first nominee in both male and female categories. In addition to asking the question – what the heck is a “gender-fluid” actor? -- it also makes us wonder if that’s even fair – being eligible for both categories when everyone else is delineated to either a male or female category.

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Surprise: CNN Panel Unanimously Denounces Campus 'Safe Spaces'
December 13th, 2016 4:02 PM
On Monday's CNN Tonight, Don Lemon and his panel refreshingly condemned "safe spaces" on college campuses. Lemon raised how some student Trump supporters have called for their own "safe spaces." Dennis Prager recognized the "legitimate factor here that kids who did vote for Trump are ostracized," but added, "I'm still against the safe space even for conservative students." Professor Todd Gitlin…

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CNN Tees Up Muslim-American Olympian to Trash Trump, White Voters
December 12th, 2016 1:29 PM
On Monday morning’s CNN Newsroom, host Carol Costello trotted out Muslim-American Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad for an interview which allowed Muhammad to attack President-elect Donald Trump, explain why the country shouldn’t unite behind Trump, and why white working class voters are foolish to think they’ve been left behind in today’s America.