Greg in Hollywood: ABC News star James Longman wonders why he posed for pic with hunky star Chris Hemsworth: “I look like a child”
The Signorile Report: CBS cancels "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" weeks after the most-watched late-night host accused parent company Paramount of paying a "big fat bribe" to settle a lawsuit over "60 Minutes" interview
Speedo Sunday: Tom Daley dives into fashion with new swimwear collection
Hot Cat of the Day: 100% yes.
Anchors a-gay! I started watching "Amy Bradley Is Missing" about the young woman who "vanished" off a family cruise and immediately remembered what I thought when it happened in 1998: "She's gay and jumped because her family didn’t exactly approve." Seems I may have been at least half right, although the article I linked to matter-of-factly calls her a lesbian in the headline but then doesn't mention it again. (There’s zero mention of her sexuality in the first episode, but I’m intrigued that my 27-year-old gaydar was apparently spot-on.) UPDATE: I finished the other two episodes and we do end up hearing from two women she dated, including one she’d hit a rough patch with. While the family truly believes Amy is out there somewhere the victim of human trafficking, it seems far more likely that she fell overboard. (Eyewitness accounts are notoriously inaccurate, no matter how convinced the sighter is.) My heart, of course, goes out to her loved ones.
X Offenders: Voters are so ill-informed that I truly believe they will lean right -- aka vote against their own interests -- over trivial stuff like THIS. See also: Denying biological sexes. What makes this so infuriating -- textbook unforced errors -- is that NOBODY WAS ASKING FOR EITHER. It's like two cisgender non-Hispanic white academics were sitting in a classroom one day and said: What would be ideal in our narrow erudite view -- completely clueless of the fact that it is very likely to annoy the general public and not even please a fraction of the principals. (My Latino husband thinks Latinx is completely moronic.) Keep it up and I guarantee we won't see another Democrat in the White House in my lifetime. The Electoral College alone has all but guaranteed that. P.S. For those who think my reasoning is the along the lines of "maybe if we didn't have drag queens and half-naked men in Pride parades people would like us better" you are dead wrong. Yes, people who hate LGBTQ people are going to hate us no matter what. But when you start trying to tell the general public how to live THEIR OWN LIVES -- say, a Mexican American with a wife and three kids who is being told not to call himself Latino, or hectoring 99.1% of people that they're not men or women, they're cisgender men and cisgender woman -- it really rubs a lot of them the wrong way. (I've witnessed it with my own generally Democratic parents.) I couldn't care less about cis and Latinx. But the polling data doesn't lie, and the right has brilliantly (aka sickeningly) turned these non-ballot-box concepts into top priorities for the electorate. PLEASE STOP before it's too late, which it may already be.
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