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"did you ever wonder why America gets all our matches in prime time?"View attachment 12920
I’ll let someone else Interference-caption this since I don’t really have any words left.
i gotta say i'm a little bit unclear how him proclaiming "i'm on team TERF" is an important positive step towards normalizing the conversation about trans people.
okay so pick whatever statement you want. he's been saying a bunch of transphobic bigoted shit for a long time now (beyond this particular netflix special) and i really fail to see how that can be spun into an ultimately positive thing for trans people.
were all those hacky stand-ups in the 90s attempting that dumb "i don't have a problem with gay people, it's the fags that i can't stand" chris rock rip-off doing a good thing and helping to normalize the conversation about gay people? of course not. actual gay people were doing that.
dave chappelle is a washed-up jerk who stopped being funny at least a decade ago and isn't helping anybody now by proudly saying TERFy nonsense and openly declaring support for (other) famous transphobes.
So Dave Chapelle’s special… I just watched it. It’s honesty not as bad as it’s being made out by the masses.
If you’ve ever watched any of his specials, he’s always dancing the line and making some delicately placed normalization of gay and trans folks, albeit at their expense.
The only thing I will say is that he does unnecessarily make jokes about people who are probably tired of being the center of his joke. He’s not tangential to trans people or related in any way so it is a bit exhausting.
The whole situation is a bit disappointing. I wouldn’t want Netflix to pull that special at all. I always saw Dave as an important proto-bridge between trans people and black people. With black trans lives being some of the most marginalized and threatened, normalizing the conversation about trans people, even if through crude or mean humor, is important. He often chooses to do this at the expense of white people, with which I’m perfectly fine with. That was actually one of his quips in the special. Poorly executed overall with this special, but I know where he was trying to go.
i think leaving the last word on this topic to a trans comedian is probably appropriate:
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/09/dave-chappelle-letter-trans-comedian-netflix
dude, that wasn't meant to be a mic drop. i just thought the conversation had run its course. i'm not trying to be adversarial here. i just thought that mayyybe in a discussion about a famous comedian making trans jokes it might be best to put forward an argument from a trans comedian's perspective.
no i honestly have not watched it and i don't intend to, just like i haven't and don't intend to listen to kanye's new album. i'm no longer interested in giving problematic men whose time has passed more watches/clicks/engagements/whatever. if that disqualifies me from having an opinion about this then so be it.
For the record I don’t really like stand up at all. It’s usually pretty lame. Skit comedy I love though. But Chapelle is one of the few stand up acts I’ll even watch.
Josh Duggar, a onetime star of the TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting,” about a large family guided by conservative Christian values, was convicted on Thursday in federal court in Arkansas of downloading child sexual abuse imagery.
A jury returned the verdict in U.S. District Court in Fayetteville, Ark., one day after it began its deliberations in a case that drew widespread attention.
Mr. Duggar, 33, was found guilty on one count of receiving child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography, each of which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
Clay Fowlkes, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, said in an interview on Thursday that the verdict was a significant milestone in the efforts of his office to combat the exploitation and abuse of children.
“Regardless of fame, wealth and popularity, no one person is above the law,” Mr. Fowlkes said.
The verdict came a little over a week after the opening of the trial. Mr. Duggar, who was arrested in April, was accused of using the internet to download explicit material showing the sexual abuse of children, some younger than 12, according to an indictment.
In a statement emailed shortly after the verdict, Mr. Duggar’s lawyers said that they would contest it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/us/josh-duggar-guilty.html
Executive Director of FRC Action
Company NameFamily Research Council
Dates EmployedJun 2013 – May 2015
Employment Duration2 yrs
LocationWashington, District Of Columbia
As Executive Director of FRC Action, Josh was in charge of coalitions and grassroots outreach for the political affiliate of Family Research Council. In this role, he was responsible for all operations for the conservative political group. He also oversaw the affiliated FRC Action PAC and the 527s Super PAC, Faith Family Freedom Fund. He managed FRC Action's annual Values Voter Summit, which has been dubbed the largest annual conservative gathering in Washington, DC.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshduggar/
https://twitter.com/erininthemorn/status/1496511215719399431?s=21
I’m curious cause I’ve been trying to find non Twitter takes, but does this bill really say what the comments allude to ?
It reads more about the surgeries being against the law for minors than hunting down trans kids at school ?
Edit to say it reads like it’s definitely targeting the trans community
Opinion: What gay men’s stunning success might teach us about the academic gender gap
The gender gap in American higher education is now the largest it has ever been, and if current trends continue, two women will soon complete college for every one man. But there’s one group who have, for generations, defied this trend: gay men. Their achievement could hold the key to closing the gap for their straight peers, too.
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I found, for example, that about 52 percent of gay men age 25 or older in America have a bachelor’s degree. For context, about 36 percent of U.S. adults 25 or older have a bachelor’s; this ranks the United States ninth in the world in college completion. If America’s gay men, however, formed their own country, it would be the world’s most highly educated by far.
Gay men’s academic advantages don’t end in undergrad, either. The group is significantly overrepresented among the United States’ most advanced degree holders. Compared with straight men, gay men are about 50 percent more likely to have earned an MD, JD or PhD.
And this pattern isn’t confined to White gay men. In every single racial and ethnic group I could measure, gay men outpace straight men in college completion by double digits.
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These successes are all the more remarkable given the fact that many schools remain dangerous spaces for gay students. Indeed, the same data that documented gay boys’ high achievement also revealed them as twice as likely to feel unsafe at school.
So what’s the secret to gay men’s academic success? And can straight men learn anything from it?
Growing up, gay boys often feel like outsiders to the culture of masculinity enforced by their straight peers. Although that status creates vulnerabilities in the schoolyard, it also seems to lead to tremendous liberation in the classroom.
That’s because boys in America still face a very narrow set of expectations about what it means to “be a man” — and one of these expectations is that “real men” shouldn’t appear overly concerned with the daily hard work of being a conscientious student.
Analyzing about 7,000 student survey items, my research identified the attributes most predictive of being a boy. They were things such as time spent playing video games and expectations of becoming a professional athlete. Classroom striving was not among them. Gay boys, however, answered very differently from straight boys. For these students, stepping outside the strictures of straight masculinity significantly supported academic success.
If masculinity’s expectations were the only barrier to success, however, gay men should perform roughly as well as straight women. Yet gay men outperform them, too, because gay men don’t just live outside traditional masculinity; they often work particularly hard to compensate for not meeting those masculine expectations — work that can lead to a measurable boost.
For those denied the most traditional avenues for “being a man,” pursuing the kinds of prestigious careers made possible through meticulously high academic achievement can offer a way to shore up one’s standing. It’s a phenomenon documented in memoirs, clinical accounts and community samples — what’s called the “Best Little Boy in the World” hypothesis. As one Rhodes Scholar described it in his coming-out essay, “young, closeted men deflect attention from their sexuality by investing in recognized markers of success: good grades, athletic achievement, elite employment and so on.”