A new interactive map tracks "hate speech" on Twitter over the past year, and the results look pretty much how you'd expect. Which is exactly why I'm suspicious of them.
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college
Hey, nothing like trying to make your college campus a better place and getting rape threats for your trouble.
gay
Things I expected from LGBTQ night at our local hockey game: rainbows, ice fights, an LGBTQ-inclusive Kiss Cam. Things I didn't expect: strangers calling me a dyke.
michelle shocked
I published my first-ever piece with xoJane Wednesday, March 20 –- it details my own uncomfortable interactions with Michelle in 2011, in the course of trying to conduct an interview. And on Friday morning, Jane Pratt published a new piece that read to me (and some commenters) as an attempt to defend Shocked.
homophobia
Here’s the dirt on our bizarre one-on-one interactions over the course of two-days at the Wild Goose Festival, an outdoor Christian music festival claiming to be LGBT-inclusive.
chick-fil-a
What should I care what Chick-fil-A thinks about my love life? I don’t care about theirs.
relationships
Sexual discrimination is rampant in the NFL. And it's time for that to come to an end. NOW.
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Sports,
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discrimination,
football,
equality,
gay rights,
49ers,
weird job interviews
Mar 5, 2013 at 10:00am | 46 comments
glaad
When it comes to getting celebrities, athletes, and the organizations that back them, to well, back down, GLAAD knows how do a hit job, but I wonder how effective the various censoring tactics are at creating real change.
parenting
During a recent drop-off at my daughter’s class, a mouthy three-year-old backed me into a corner peppering me with questions about why my kid didn’t have a dad.
gay
What Kurek’s story illustrates is that so much of the fear, hatred, and bigotry in this world comes from a place of lack of knowledge and exposure, paired with bigoted teachings to reinforce divides between social groups.
nfl
Just after NFL players speak out supporting same-sex marriage, a college linebacker gets kicked off of his team for kissing a man.
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homophobia,
gay marriage,
football,
it gets better,
sometimes i just cannot believe how much hate is in the world
Sep 12, 2012 at 4:30pm | 49 comments
homophobia
It’s a dangerous world to be gay, for all that people seem to think we live in an enlightened and safe era.
conflict resolution
A guy at the bar yelled "FAG" and I yelled... nothing.
bisexuality
In 2006, Mitt Romney's administration refused to publish a Department of Public Health report on bullying -- because it mentioned "bisexual" and "transgender" people.
assault
I know as the resident Issues Spice here at xoJane, you’re probably expecting me to tell you that Will Smith is clearly a horrible homophobe with no cultural awareness who should be told to go stand in the corner to feel bad.
boycotts
Calling for traditional families to boycott a catalogue over lesbians is bush league. Whoops. I mean... Hahahahaha lesbians.
evangelism
Cameron doesn’t know who I am, but I want to save him. I want to be his gay Jesus.
gays
Declaring yourself royalty in a culture you aren't a part of has been historically hubristic. Just ask Russia.
family drama
To ease her parents into the idea of us a couple, Claudia thought it best I meet them first as a friend, so that they could get to know me as a person without the baggage of being The Lesbian Ruiner of Their Child’s Virtue.
actresses
Et tu, Southwest Airlines?
homophobia
A. Not everyone has been in a Ferrari. (1960s-esque flight-attendants-are-for-bangin' humor brought to you courtesy of Southwest Airlines.)
