Hmm... perhaps you're right about your male friends, but science suggests that you might be mistaken:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/men-an…

I'll address more of what you wrote later, but first let me ask you: what do you consider true friendship?

Do you have numerous straight male friends? If so, let's assume that both you and your straight male friends are single... if you were hanging out with any of these friends, and you then casually suggested that…

Exactly... when you're strongly attracted to someone, that's not likely to dissipate if you spend a good amount of time with them, as friends do with each other.

Attraction will frequently grow beyond that to real feelings... why would someone torture themselves by voluntarily spending a great deal of time around…

But effectively what you're saying is that when a man meets a woman he has to either immediately express romantic interest in her or forever place her in a platonic category... how often does real life work like that?

My parents met in college... I've never asked them, but I'm not sure that they started dating as soon…

Exactly... I'm struck by how many of the commenters here are women who themselves date interracially, but are quite willing to call into question the relationships of black men who date interracially...

Lindy,

I suspect that a lot of us here wish we could hang out with you and your friend Solomon...

Yeah, but after that his real Dad owned up to his paternity and got to know his kid... I know he can't make up for the years he lost during his childhood, but I hear that the two of them are really close now. (There's another guy, HG, in the picture somehow, but I've never exactly figured out his deal.)

You know what my favorite thing in Norway is? The Swiss Alps.

Thank you, pockyordie, for bringing up this issue, and for remaining civil throughout the thread, even with some people who didn't return the favor.

I don't think McConaughey is a rabid anti-black racist, and I don't think you do either, but we both noticed that awkward moment on Sunday night, and with good reason.

Befor…

I think that a lot of people in this thread would benefit from watching this video:

"How to Tell Someone They Sound Racist."

(It's only 3 minutes long, but it makes its points rather well.)

I'm an "actual black human being" as well and my jaw dropped when McConaughey disrespected his fellow nominees like that.

In my world, it's not uncommon for grown men of the same age to address each other as "Mr.," or even people younger than them, at least in a certain context, such as when two other peers were just addressed as "Mr."

If you go to the doctor and he or she is younger than you, do you call them by their first name upon…

Here's the thing... McConaughey is from Texas. He is intimately familiar with the tradition of disrespecting black adults by calling them by their first names in contexts in which people would typically be called by their last names. (That's not to say that tradition was ever limited to the South, but arguably it…

I know... presumably he knew that he was going to acknowledge his fellow nominees if he won, he could have at least bothered to learn their names.

It's not like he needed to learn how to pronounce names of the heads of state of every nation in the world, he had to master two fellow actors' names, something that he…

No mention of LeBlanc's Episodes on Showtime?

I recently watched the first 2 seasons... it's really good... I imagine that some people who would assume it wouldn't be would be pleasantly surprised by it.

Season 3 starts tonight.

In any event, only Amish people lack DVRs and On Demand, so there's no real crisis tonight.

Alr…

What an unpleasant creature you are.

Thank you... people's irrational Beyonce hatred is starting to slip into total delusion/lack of self-awareness.

People won't be having T-Boz suppers in the future, but TLC's music will certainly pass the test of time, as they made some great tunes. (And just to be clear, there's no snark involved on this end.)

Yeah, I figured that you might be too young for A Different World (although it was always possible you had caught it in syndication or some other way after its original run).

My choice of "SleepyHollow" doesn't come from any of those things, not directly at least... for a time when I was a kid, I lived in an area where…

You've sorta reminded me of a story... way back in the day, I was traveling with my parents somewhere, and we were on line to get our boarding passes on the First Class line. (We didn't shell out First Class money... Dad traveled a lot for business, so we were often able to upgrade with Frequent Flyer Miles.)

Do you…