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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. |
