This sentence from the article is a perfect example of why "they" is confusing.

"However, they are keen to let their child, Anoush, choose their own gender identity when they are old enough, because they wish for them to "grow into their own person".

Huh?

#2 | POSTED BY GOATMAN

It's easy to figure out. "They" and "their" are used more than once in sentences all the time. Learned this stuff in elementary school.

FTA:

And now my big idea is everywhere. It shows up especially in the talking points about trans rights, and policy regarding trans athletes in sports. It is being written into laws that essentially threaten repercussions for anyone who suggests that sex might be a biological reality.

Quite the ego for a nobody. As if he's the only person in the world who has had thoughts on gender.

If he was wrong then, he could be wrong now. The issue is a little more complicated than someone who thinks they're a know-it-all.

"It was a tie!" - Otto

Obama-era

How Trump decides 90% of his policies.

If conservatives can't remember who attacked America on 9/11, that's your problem. Why do you keep forgetting?

"The bulb that we're being forced to use, number one, to me most importantly, the light's no good. I always look orange."

Yeah, it's the bulb's fault because WHY DOESN'T ANYONE ELSE LOOK ORANGE?

Trump is basing a major energy policy on how weird he looks and how he has to blame it on something ridiculous. Great job, Trump voters.

Well, that's it then. No way the Taliban is going to be invited to Trump's next wedding.

lied

So Boris is the UK Trump.

Just saw Trump's 9/11 speech and he said "terrorists" not "ISLAMIC TERRORISTS" and I'm not sure how I'm writing this because my head exploded over all my faux outrage.

#8 | POSTED BY RIGHTOCENTER

Trump invited THE TALIBAN to the US this week and you're freaking out over words in some tweet?

The original tweet linked to a story about families gathering at the memorial site in New York City but was widely called out since it did not mention that the planes that hit the towers were hijacked by terrorists from al-Qaeda.

Dinesh D'Souza: In this now-deleted tweet, the New York Times attempts to blame 9/11 on the AIRPLANES that "took aim" and "brought down" the World Trade Center. What lengths they will go to to divert attention from who actually did this!

Ridiculous. Everyone knows it was al-Qaeda. It has to be mentioned in every single damn tweet about 9/11? Dinesh himself didn't even mention it was al-Qaeda!

Is anyone flipping out over the fact that most of the terrorists were Saudi and it's rarely mentioned? What an outrage!

Yeesh. Today is supposed to be about those lost. Not about coddling a bunch of snowflakes.

The Democrats were at a 9/11 memorial event. Republicans have no shame.

don't underestimate how hard and expensive it is to do anything in Alaska

#3 | POSTED BY DOCNJO

There's been plenty of logging, mining and drilling in Alaska. Being "hard and expensive" isn't going to stop any company from exploiting the land for easy bucks.

"Fake news! Rev. Jonathan 'Lying Jon' Carl was a reporter for the FAILING ABC News before my tweet got him fired. ABC apologized! Now Lying Jon claims to be a pastor and it never happened. Sad!"

I know these people. They're the weirdest group of brainiac geeks that you've ever seen; plagued with a variety of social and emotional tics.

#2 | POSTED BY SHEEPLESCHISM

NOAA has over 10,000 employees.

But since you know them all so well, have any of them ever altered a forecast with a sharpie just for spite?

Trump displays hurricane forecast altered with a Sharpie in attempt to prove he's not an idiot

President Trump on Wednesday displayed a map that he said reflected Hurricane Dorian's original path, but the image appeared to be manually altered with a marker to show the storm's trajectory continuing toward Alabama.

"We got lucky in Florida. Very, very lucky indeed," Trump told reporters. "We had actually, our original chart was that it was going to be hitting Florida directly.

Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kevin McAleenan then pulled up the chart and displayed it on the Resolute Desk. The map featured what appeared to be a marker-drawn addition to the end of the Dorian's previously expected path, extending it toward the Gulf of Mexico and the southern edge of Alabama.

Reporters and observers on social media quickly noted the alteration to the map, and observed that the National Hurricane Center's own projections did not feature a similar shift in the storm's path.

Dennis Mersereau, a Forbes contributor who writes about the weather, tweeted that it's illegal to falsify a forecast.

define gun nut

Anyone who thinks they need to be armed to buy a loaf of bread. Sane people just bring their wallet.

"Reporting"? Y'all know it's a satire site, right?

Jimmy Kimmel met his wife at work. He was the producer of the show, his wife was a writer and an EMPLOYEE. Therefore by modern definitions, him expressing any interest in her at all was a violation and should result in him getting fired or disciplined.

#24 | POSTED BY AVIGDORE

Ridiculous. Shows just how much this discussion is needed. You don't know there's a big difference between sexual harassment/assault and consensual relationships?

Who didn't see this coming?

#1 | POSTED BY GOATMAN

Good article, Goat!

So there you go: most men are perfectly aware of the difference between a friendly hug and a creepy hug. They are perfectly aware of what constitutes harassment and what doesn't. Which makes you wonder why so many men are afraid to interact with women at work?

The answer to that question, perhaps, is that a lot of men aren't so much afraid of being accused of anything as they are they are angry that #MeToo ever happened. They're angry that they've been made to think about their behavior, made to interrogate power dynamics they always took for granted, and they are punishing women for it by refusing to interact with them.

It's worth noting, I think, that the Harvard Business Review article previewing the study's 2019 results is headlined The #MeToo Backlash. You see that phrase a lot and that framing subtly implies that #MeToo went too far, that a backlash is only natural. It's yet another form of victim-blaming; another way to quietly put women back in their place.

#13 | POSTED BY SHEEPLESCHISM

The logo has been printed on t-shirts, phone cases, bumper-stickers and notebooks since 2016, when Lion Guard formed in response to protests at Trump campaign events. Much like "Bikers for Trump," Lion Guard sees themselves as an "informal civilian group dedicated to the safety and security of #Trump supporters by exposing far-Left rioters," according to their website. Their motto " "Better to be a lion for a day, than a lamb for eternity" " is a direct reference to a famous radio broadcast by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Trump, quoting a Twitter user called "ilduce2016," also shared a similar version of that quote in Feb. 2016.

"The dissemination of the Lion Guard logo, integrated at the end of the video Trump tweeted out, is disturbing but also indicative of the normalization of a modern fascism in the United States," said Jean Dean Valencia-Garca, assistant professor of digital history at Texas State University and an expert in modern neo-fascist movements.

Online sleuths used Tin-Eye, a reverse image search engine, to figure out the first time that the image was shared on the internet. A similar VICE News search confirmed that the logo was first used by a Dutch white supremacist on twitter in March 2016. (The tweet has since been deleted.) Trump was widely criticized for retweeting that same Dutch white supremacist a year earlier, whose bio at that time read "#KekSec/Stop #WhiteGenocide/White Preservist/Programmer/Dutch Patriot/Race War when?"

So, I'll put you down as being in support of vandalizing a women's rape shelter and nailing a dead rat to their door?

#5 | POSTED BY JEFFJ

You can't find anything else to obsess over, sicko? You're not constantly posting these threads because you care.

The number of incidents and casualties are simply too small

#4 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Compared to what? In the real world, the number of incidents and casualties are staggering.

Will it ever end? Florida got $92 Trillion Dollars last year!

My guess is Trump will be proven right ... again...

#2 | POSTED BY ANDREAMACKRIS

Trump's going to be proven right that Puerto Rico has already received $92 billion last year when it hasn't? Is he going to build a time machine?