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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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Didn't think this was worth a full thread but here's a good one: United Airlines Forcibly Removes Body Pillow From Flight (Archive).

Controversy was sparked last Tuesday when a man’s anime body pillow was forcibly removed from an overbooked United Airlines flight. Brandon Martin, who had purchased two seats in advance for his flight to San Jose, was shocked when United flight attendants suddenly asked him to remove “that cartoon pillow” from the adjacent seat. When Martin apparently refused the requests from the flight attendants, the scene quickly escalated.

The flight had reportedly been overbooked due to a computer error earlier in the day causing United to not have enough seats to transport some of its flight staff to the San Jose International Airport for work the next day. United Airlines initially began asking for volunteers to give up their seats. When no one came forward, staff then turned their attention towards the pillow.

“I had already purchased two tickets in advance, there was no reason for me to give up that seat,” Martin stated while sitting next to the Rin Tohsaka pillow involved in the incident. “It doesn’t matter if she’s not real (yet), she’s important to me and I have the right to use the two seats I purchased in any way I choose. The fact that they chose my seat out of all of them is clearly 2D discrimination. They could have randomly picked anyone else, but I was clearly the target.”

Eye witnesses state that Martin refused to move the pillow after multiple requests from flight staff. Martin tone reportedly became more belligerent and airport security was called to escort him and his stuffed companion off of the plane. When Martin continued to refuse, passengers claim that security forcibly removed the body pillow from the seat and began dragging it off the plane. Martin, who clung to the pillow in the process, was dragged through the center aisle while shouting what other passengers describe sounding like obscenities in another language.

Martin says that he is filing for damages done to the cover of his dakimakura sustained during the struggle, which he calls “the soiling of best girl.” United Airlines responded, claiming it was well within reason to remove any object or passenger it deems as disruptive as stated in the company’s passenger flight agreement. The incident is the second to involve otaku and airlines in the last few months including an incident that occurred in July between Southwest Airlines and a man wearing a Strike Witches T-shirt.

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AnOminous said:
I hate to come out in support of a filthy weeaboo, but he fucking paid for that seat. Unlike the fat, disgusting ogres who routinely take up not just one seat, but the two seats on either side because they're just that fucking fat.

This dude's waifu deserved the seat he PAID FOR.
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You realize it's satirical right

That same website has articles like "‘Eromanga Sensei’ Author no Longer on Speaking Terms with Sister", "Japanese Man Hospitalized After Seeing Genitals in Adult Video" and "New Anime Takes Place in Alternate World Without Alternate World Anime".
 
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Zenigata said:
Controversy was sparked last Tuesday when a man’s anime body pillow was forcibly removed from an overbooked United Airlines flight.
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Ha, what a complete and utter ta-
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sitting next to the Rin Tohsaka pillow
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... as I said. A true gentleman and scholar of the most refined of tastes.
 
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EDIT: I didn't think this warranted a thread, so I'll just leave it here.

This kitten literally got a new asshole.

http://people.com/pets/kitten-gets-new-anus/
Cluck the 1-month-old kitten will no longer be the butt of anyone’s jokes.

The rescue cat was born with an Imperforate Anus, a birth defect which caused her to come into this world sans butthole. As we know, everyone poops, so everyone needs an anus.

In hopes of helping the innocent baby cat, Kitty Bungalow Charm School for Wayward Cats, the rescue caring for Cluck, created a fundraising page to crowdsource the $10,000 it would take to pay for a new anus and the operation that goes with it.

Thanks to countless cat lovers out in the world, the rescue was able to raise the money and schedule Cluck for surgery. After waiting for the kitten to grow a little bit stronger, doctors put her under the knife for a complicated operation, which, in the end, resulted in a new anus for the little angel.

Now that the pussycat has all her parts, it’s a question of whether they all work.

“They did have to do a little more extensive work than just ‘make a hole’ as they had to bring down her large intestines and connect the sphincter. The question as to if either are working muscularly or neurologically is still unanswered,” Kitty Bungalow explained on its Crowdrise page. “And just because they aren’t working at first doesn’t mean they won’t work in the future. She is very young and those muscles and connections can still be made.”

Rescue worker Shawn Simons said in a statement that there has been some successful pooping on Cluck’s part post-surgery, but not enough for the rescue to determine the kitten’s long-term needs.

Regardless, this kitty got her holiday wish.
 
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Perverted Cat said:
EDIT: I didn't think this warranted a thread, so I'll just leave it here.

This kitten literally got a new asshole.

http://people.com/pets/kitten-gets-new-anus/
Cluck the 1-month-old kitten will no longer be the butt of anyone’s jokes.

The rescue cat was born with an Imperforate Anus, a birth defect which caused her to come into this world sans butthole. As we know, everyone poops, so everyone needs an anus.

In hopes of helping the innocent baby cat, Kitty Bungalow Charm School for Wayward Cats, the rescue caring for Cluck, created a fundraising page to crowdsource the $10,000 it would take to pay for a new anus and the operation that goes with it.

Thanks to countless cat lovers out in the world, the rescue was able to raise the money and schedule Cluck for surgery. After waiting for the kitten to grow a little bit stronger, doctors put her under the knife for a complicated operation, which, in the end, resulted in a new anus for the little angel.

Now that the pussycat has all her parts, it’s a question of whether they all work.

“They did have to do a little more extensive work than just ‘make a hole’ as they had to bring down her large intestines and connect the sphincter. The question as to if either are working muscularly or neurologically is still unanswered,” Kitty Bungalow explained on its Crowdrise page. “And just because they aren’t working at first doesn’t mean they won’t work in the future. She is very young and those muscles and connections can still be made.”

Rescue worker Shawn Simons said in a statement that there has been some successful pooping on Cluck’s part post-surgery, but not enough for the rescue to determine the kitten’s long-term needs.

Regardless, this kitty got her holiday wish.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/world/europe/uk-prince-george-gay-pray.html
Anglican Minister Urges Prayers for Prince George to Be Gay​

LONDON — A prominent Anglican cleric and gay rights campaigner known for contentious gestures has urged believers to pray for Prince George — age 4, and third in line to the throne — to find the love “of a fine young gentleman” when he grows up so as to advance the cause of same-sex marriage in church.

Coming just days after Prince Harry — George’s uncle, and fifth in line — announced his engagement to Meghan Markle, a divorced American actress, the suggestion by the Very Rev. Kelvin Holdsworth seemed to illuminate once more the role of royal romance in Britain’s imagination and conversation, especially when it collides with tradition.

Prince Harry and Ms. Markle have said they will marry in May at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, west of London. But it is only since 2002 that the Church of England has permitted church marriages for divorced people, “in exceptional circumstances” at the discretion of parish priests. The church teaching is that marriage is for life.

While same-sex marriage is permitted by law in most of Britain, the Church of England says on its website, “it remains the case that it is not legally possible for same-sex couples to marry” in its churches.

Mr. Holdsworth, the provost of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow, belongs to the Scottish Episcopal Church, a separate province of the Anglican Communion that voted in June to let its priests solemnize same-sex marriages.

In his campaign to expand on that change, Mr. Holdsworth wrote in a blog post on Thursday that believers could “pray in the privacy of their hearts (or in public if they dare) for the Lord to bless Prince George with a love, when he grows up, of a fine young gentleman.” Prince George is the elder child of Prince William and the former Catherine Middleton, now called the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
“A royal wedding might sort things out remarkably easily, though we might have to wait 25 years for that to happen,” Mr. Holdsworth wrote. “Who knows whether that might be sooner than things might work out by other means.”

His suggestion was widely reported in the British media on Friday, though the blog on which he made it seemed inaccessible Friday morning.
Mr. Holdsworth caused a frisson among some of the faithful in January when he permitted a reading from the Quran during a service that included a rebuttal of the Christian belief that Jesus was the son of God.

His latest comments also drew the outrage of more traditional clerics. The Rev. Gavin Ashenden, a former royal chaplain, called the comments unchristian.

“To pray for Prince George to grow up in that way” is to “pray in a way that would disable and undermine his constitutional and personal role,” he told Christian Today, an online news provider, particularly when part of the expectation that the prince would inherit would be “to produce a biological heir with a woman he loves.”

“It is an unkind and destabilizing prayer,” Mr. Ashenden continued. “It is the theological equivalent of the curse of the wicked fairy in one of the fairy tales.”

There was no immediate comment from the royal family. Prince Harry and Ms. Markle arrived in Nottingham, England, on Friday for their first official visit together — to raise awareness of H.I.V./AIDS and youth violence.
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Bonus kebab loving as well.
 
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GabeRegan said:
Okay so maybe I'm missing something, but wasn't the Church of England explicitly founded so one of the Henrys could keep divorcing his wives until he got a son? Also that pastor is clearly a cunt.
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That is my understanding as well, but I'm just an uncouth colonist. That the Church of England being used as a means to destroy the royal family when it was initially created to preserve the bloodline makes me chuckle.
 
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break these cuffs said:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/world/europe/uk-prince-george-gay-pray.html

Bonus kebab loving as well.
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From what I understand, the heir to the throne has to be from a lawful marriage, and a surrogate doesn’t count as the king (gay or otherwise) wasn’t married to the surrogate. So if George was gay the succession would go to Charlotte, or whatever the next one is named.

And now I need to go soak in a lye bath for considering the sexuality of a four year old.
 
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