• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

The willow is too close to the house.

I really should read my own blog.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Republicans do not trust women.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

T R E 4 5 O N

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Mobile Menu

  • Seattle Meet-up Post
  • 2025 Activism
  • Targeted Political Fundraising
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2025 Activism
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Civil Rights / Late Night Open Thread: Very Normal People, Baymax Edition

Late Night Open Thread: Very Normal People, Baymax Edition

by Anne Laurie|  July 6, 20225:21 am| 19 Comments

This post is in: Civil Rights, Gay Rights Are human Rights, Open Threads, Popular Culture

FacebookTweetEmail

here is the scene from baymax with the trans man without linking back to a transphobe/giving a transphobe clout pic.twitter.com/rBMh9rtNwR

— $ ELIANA $ (@loveIabor) June 29, 2022

It’s a few seconds in an online cartoon, how many people actually care… Oh.


IMO, this is the clip that actually knots the ‘conservative’ knickers. Your body may change, but you are still you…

Like i wish baymax was my father pic.twitter.com/gUnjIRvao3

— riss ?? (@harpyeda) June 29, 2022

This goes on my viewing list, in the aspiration that I’ll cut back on doomscrolling enough to merit subscribing. More here, including a trailer:

‘Baymax!’ Creators Discuss the Return of the Loveable Healthcare Robot

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: «War For Ukraine Day 97: Ukraine Coordinates a Retreat In the East While Counterattacking In the South 3 War For Ukraine Day 132: Air Raid Sirens Have Sounded Over Almost All of Ukraine As Russia Continues Its Bombardment
Next Post: Test 7 »

Reader Interactions

19Comments

  1. 1.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    July 6, 2022 at 1:30 am

    Tampons are always a weird hang up with some guys. On occasion I have to buy them for my girlfriend and it’s whatever, but other guys a freaked out by the though even the touching things.

  2. 2.

    Anne Laurie

    July 6, 2022 at 1:37 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: I vaguely remember a male late-night talk show comedian, back in the 80s? 90s? doing a riff:  Yes, I’m buying tampons.  Cuz I got me a woman!  And you’re buying… a twelve-pack and a pornographic magazine…

    Those were simpler days.  Not better, mind you, but simpler.

  3. 3.

    livewyre

    July 6, 2022 at 1:46 am

    There’s something about gender affirmation as a concept that completely throws off traditional norms of dominance – just as true today as a century ago. It’s actively offensive to tell youths that they can define themselves in ways other than are handed down to them, and letting gender variance play out cuts right to the heart of it.

    Nominally you’re supposed to accept the place you’re given. You get special words on your birth certificate that designate whether you work inside or outside of the house, and what neighborhood to go live in with the rest of your kind. There are options for exceptionally gifted collaborators, but only insofar as they keep the structure standing. If just about anyone can discover their own gender then that all falls to pieces.

    That’s why it’s the enemy. That’s why even the most innocuous displays of variance have to be shot down with every round of ammunition to hand – because it’s actually a threat to what’s actually being done. Affirmation destroys assignment. Anytime – anywhere – you could decide what life is about, it challenges the traditional order. And the traditional order says guns and gonads should be worshiped from birth, at the penalty of meeting the wrong end of one.

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    July 6, 2022 at 1:47 am

    Tampon trivia:

    Wisconsin’s Rep Jim “Tex” Sensenbrenner did not receive his nickname from any connection with the Lone Star state.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    July 6, 2022 at 2:03 am

    Ancillary feminine product clip: Spongeworthy.

    ;)

  6. 6.

    MisterForkbeard

    July 6, 2022 at 2:06 am

    You know what’s silly I’m watching that and my first impression wasn’t “trans man” it was “dude buying pads”. Because yes, a lot of us do that for our wives or girlfriends.

    I can’t understand why people would watch that and immediately go crazy. The whole damn thing is innocuous.

  7. 7.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    July 6, 2022 at 2:28 am

    I remember my mother telling me that a boyfriend who bought you tampons was a keeper.

  8. 8.

    Anne Laurie

    July 6, 2022 at 2:44 am

    @MisterForkbeard: You know what’s silly I’m watching that and my first impression wasn’t “trans man” it was “dude buying pads”. Because yes, a lot of us do that for our wives or girlfriends.

    Mine, too!

    If this is the worst thing TERFs can find to complain about… they really don’t know how well off they are, do they?

  9. 9.

    ColoradoGuy

    July 6, 2022 at 3:04 am

    I’ve always wondered why some men get all freaked out about periods, or tampons. She’s a girl, right? You do know that women menstruate, right? So why are you surprised by a bit of blood?

    My own personal theory is that men rarely see (their own) blood unless something is very, very wrong, and they freak out when they see it. In the more old-school families, sisters keep it quiet, and mothers don’t discuss it with sons, so sons really are in the dark about the whole subject. It becomes a “female thing”, not discussed in the presence of boys or men.

    I was fortunate my first girlfriend was so matter of fact about it. Just by power of example, I realized it was nothing special, just another weird social taboo, like so many others in our culture.

  10. 10.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 6, 2022 at 5:14 am

    IMO, this is the clip that actually knots the ‘conservative’ knickers. Your body may change, but you are still you…

    So where is the screaming about balls sprouting hair?  Oh, right, only lady parts (sorry) are gross.

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    July 6, 2022 at 5:34 am

    ‘@mrmoshpotato

    Obligatory?

  12. 12.

    evodevo

    July 6, 2022 at 6:22 am

    @ColoradoGuy:  Men have ALWAYS been freaked out by menstruation…see: anthropology re: American Indian and many other societies’ customs isolating women to the outskirts of the village while having their periods; Jewish Levitical rules (Niddah) governing menstruating women’s behavior; Islam forbidding intercourse; some branches of Buddhism bar menstruating women from a temple; etc. etc.

  13. 13.

    MagdaInBlack

    July 6, 2022 at 6:43 am

    I can’t find anything offensive in these clips. I see kindness, sweetness and generosity of spirit.

    I suppose a certain type finds those traits offensive.

  14. 14.

    sab

    July 6, 2022 at 6:52 am

    @MagdaInBlack: I think they are very sweet. But I do find it a little odd that a humanoid blimp with a man’s voice is consoling a young girl about her first period. On the other hand, at that age I wouldn’t have listened to a grown woman about much of anything. And my own mother was ridiculously nice.

  15. 15.

    Kropacetic

    July 6, 2022 at 7:02 am

    @MisterForkbeard: You know what’s silly I’m watching that and my first impression wasn’t “trans man” it was “dude buying pads”. Because yes, a lot of us do that for our wives or girlfriends.

    You may notice the dude’s sweater is a trans flag. Although, yes, perfectly normal for a cis man to buy pads or tampons.

  16. 16.

    RedDirtGirl

    July 6, 2022 at 8:24 am

    @Kropacetic: they do say “I get these ones”.  So they appear to be buying them for themselves.

  17. 17.

    Anne Laurie

    July 6, 2022 at 8:38 am

    @Kropacetic: You may notice the dude’s sweater is a trans flag.

    You know that, and I know that, but is the random two-year-old of the bigots’ fantasies gonna know more than ‘ooh, pretty colors‘?

  18. 18.

    satby

    July 6, 2022 at 8:47 am

    @Anne Laurie: That’s what the retrograde types are so worried sbout. Children are uncomplicated creatures, and the small ones mostly accept that if you say you’re a girl or a boy that’s what you are. If you can say what you are and have that be acceptable, where will it end? When they accuse all of us ( and they mean straight progressives too) of grooming, they’re speaking their fear of losing their hierarchy. It’s threatening enough to them to kill over.

  19. 19.

    Neldob

    July 6, 2022 at 9:27 am

    I thought that was very sweet. All that helpful togetherness reminds me of my distant right wing relative whose son is now a some variety of alphabet gendersex and the dad is now much nicer.

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

On The Road - way2blue - SINALEI, SAMOA—RESPITE EDITION—FEBRUARY 2025.  (second of five) 7
Image by way2blue (7/13/25)

World Central Kitchen

Donate

Recent Comments

  • something fabulous on Late Night Open Thread: Buyer’s Remorse (Jul 14, 2025 @ 5:50am)
  • Deborah on Boomer Nostalgia Open Thread: Nuclear Terrors (Jul 14, 2025 @ 5:41am)
  • DirkReinecke on Late Night Open Thread: Buyer’s Remorse (Jul 14, 2025 @ 5:18am)
  • Geminid on Late Night Open Thread: Buyer’s Remorse (Jul 14, 2025 @ 5:17am)
  • something fabulous on Late Night Open Thread: Buyer’s Remorse (Jul 14, 2025 @ 4:38am)

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
No Kings Protests June 14 2025

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)
Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Social Media

Balloon Juice
WaterGirl
TaMara
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
DougJ NYT Pitchbot
mistermix

Keeping Track

Legal Challenges (Lawfare)
Republicans Fleeing Town Halls (TPM)
21 Letters (to Borrow or Steal)
Search Donations from a Brand

Feeling Defeated?  If We Give Up, It's Game Over

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!