I Didn't Say It

Jamie Lee Curtis, on letting go of her daughter’s “dead name’ after she came out as transgender, and what it means to be the parent of a trans child:

“[The dead name] so doesn’t fit anymore. That was, of course, the hardest thing. Just the regularity of the word. The name that you’d given a child. That you’ve been saying their whole life. And so, of course, at first that was the challenge. Then the pronoun. My husband and I still slip occasionally. I think that’s sort of evolutionary and a very important step in our home. We have tried to maintain it in a big way. I’m learning a lot from Ruby. I’m not proselytizing, and I’m not trying to force-feed something to people. I’m simply saying, “This is our family’s experience.” I am here to support Ruby. That is my job. Just as it is to care and love and support her older sister Annie in her journeys. I’m a grateful student. I’m learning so much from Ruby. The conversation is ongoing. But I want to know: How can I do this better?”

And that, ladies and gentle-ladies, is how you parent.

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Lauren Boebert, QAnon nutbag, on Pete Buttigieg’s paternity leave:

“I delivered one of my children in the front seat of my truck. Because, as a mom of four, we got things to do. Ain’t nobody got time for two and a half months of maternity leave. We have a world to save here. The guy in charge of it all [the supply chain], Mayor Pete, was on a two-month maternity, paternity, whatever the heck you want to call it, leave. Okay? The guy was gone. The guy was not working. Because why? He was trying to figure out how to chest feed.”

Actually, he was working, from home, as he took care of his new babies that he didn’t squirt out on the front seat of a rusted pickup parked outside his trailer home where he conceived those same children.

Boebert is a fool and a bigot and a homophobe and, ask yourselves, and then ask her, what work has she done since being elected other than rile up an insurrection.

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Tom Cotton, Arkansas RepubliQAnon Senator, coming for Randi Weingarten—the out gay president of the American Federation of Teachers—because she campaigned for Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia gubernatorial race.:

“Randi Weingarten is a joke. Randi Weingarten does not even have children of her own. What in the hell does she know about raising and teaching kids? In fact, that’s probably why she was perfectly fine to shut down schools for two years and force kids to wear masks, because she didn’t have to deal with it at home.”

Tom Cotton, giving Lauren Boebert a run for the money as the most ignorant RepubliQAnon in Congress.

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Randi Weingarten, coming right back at homophobic asshat Tom  Cotton:

“Is he now disqualifying every nun from teaching? Or is this simply a new divisive & hateful homophobic slur against LGBTQ teachers? I guess Senator Cotton hasn’t done his homework and doesn’t know I have stepchildren, grandkids & nieces and nephews. They would certainly be surprised by his comments. As would the many students I taught (and loved) at Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn.”

Weingarten points out the obvious, that if asshats like Cotton took even a nanosecond to think about what they were saying, they might realize the ignorance of their own education. Think about the people who choose not to have children. Or the people who cannot conceive. Are they terrible teachers?

But Tom Cotton is a horrible bigoted asshat.

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LeVar Burton, on losing that Jeopardy hosting gig:

“I’d say, ‘No. You’ve got to be kidding me! You’re out of your mind. Goodbye!’ I want to make it clear, for the record, that I’m really happy with the way things worked out. I was disappointed to not get the job, but I’m the sort of person, I believe that everything happens for a reason. And if I didn’t get that job, that meant it wasn’t supposed to be for me, and I accepted that almost instantly and willingly. I know that the opportunities that are in front of me right now wouldn’t have come my way had I gotten the job, so I’m certain that this has worked out better for me than I could ever have imagined.”

What are sour grapes? I kid, though I don’t think he’d have been the right choice. He seemed a little too stiff and rehearsed.

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