I want a job where instead of saying “hello”, I must answer my phone by confidently proclaiming my last name.
The main Chelsea Handler quote I’ve seen that everybody loves is something along the lines of “Being gay’s not a choice because nobody chooses to make their life more difficult”
And on the surface that seems like a good, decent thing to say! Hurray for Chelsea! You’re meeting basic expectations of decency and stuff!
Except
Wait
No hold on
You know there’s a problem with saying that right because
I dunno that’s like saying
“Hey man! We WISH we could be straight! That sounds awesome! We would be if we could! This feels too weird and I’d trade my same-sex partner in for heteronormativitity any day of the week!”
It’s just
Not helping as much as you seem to think it is
Word. Also she is just generally unfunny.
stilled shocked that there are people who actually think she’s funny

Yeah, except that to ignore the sexuality of these kids would be to ignore that their suicides were the direct results of being bullied for said sexuality. We should absolutely do our part to treat people equally regardless of their sexual orientation, but that doesn’t mean we should pretend that LGBTQ people aren’t oppressed, or that these suicides aren’t emblematic of a much larger problem in our society. Blindness to oppression doesn’t further equality. It only furthers oppression.