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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “The Virgin Queen Chihuahua Has Spoken!“, responding to Nick Fuentes’ attack on his feature from last week, “Rich Snobs vs. Poor Slobs: The Schism Between ‘Racist’ Whites,” as well as Jim personally. (more…)
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Whenever someone hears something that had nothing to do with them and decides to take it very personally, you know you’re dealing with a woman on her period. (more…)
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There is a deep, hermetic lore known only to cultural insiders, a small circle of academics, and a handful of social rogues[1] — namely, the lore of the often-tense relationships between white gays and blacks in those urban neighborhoods that exist in the liminal realm between “ghetto” and “gentrified.”
I first noticed this as a child going to work with my dad in the early 1990s. Several neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio were undergoing a sort of transformation. (more…)
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It’s June, and what was once Bride Month is now Pride Month. So that means it’s time to celebrate, everyone! Mothers and fathers only get one day each every year, but 175ers get 30 days — and surely that must be faaaabulous! (more…)
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If one day I were to find myself in the improbable situation of being so well-heeled and immune to social ostracism that I convinced a Hollywood studio to produce a romantic comedy that was sympathetic to the KKK, you would find it incredibly undignified if I were to whine that no black people showed up in theaters to see it.
But that’s precisely how Billy Eichner is reacting to the fact that his new homo-positive romantic comedy Bros tanked at the box office during its debut last weekend. (more…)