It really is this simple and people will trip over themselves to justify their ass-backwards thinking. It boggles the mind... well I mean, really it just confirms the fact that the public approves of the racist institutions that hold together our society...but on my more naive days my mind is boggled, promise.

hahaha thats more like it! I hope you've sense moved on to greener pastures!

Ok, but I want to hear at least one anecdote about Scortcho's behavior. Why are you keeping these stories to yourself??

Racists and proponents of respectability politics alike choose to blame victims of police violence by pointing to their clothes or manner of speaking as justifications for the abuse. When an "educated, articulate, well-dressed black man" is the victim of such abuse they lose the ability to use those justifications and…

White folks today are of course not directly responsible for the violence of their grandparents (I love how you try to use "ancestors" as if these lynchings are remembered in hieroglyphics as opposed to COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS). However, these robberies, rapes and murders were more than just pass-times for white folks,…

ok, jackass, I'll bite. Till's father was an abusive womanizer whom he most likely never knew as he was forced to enlist in the Army for beating his mother. Try reading Death of Innocence by Mamie Till-Mobley, Christopher Benson if you want actual information about the Till family's background. Otherwise shut the…

This a well researched long form piece which highlights how very, very often police set up raids that would not be considered anything approaching necessary by any reasonable person.

As a woman desperate to get out of NYC to my parents home and turkey, this gives me so much hope.

damn it!

*Heroine

Imagine, if you will, that on your way to work each day half a dozen vendors selling chicken feet came up to you trying to get you buy their goods. They are polite. They say "hello good sir, how are you" and try to get you to engage in conversation. They get in your space. They thrust their trays of chicken feet at…

I'm so tired of this, men do not need more reasons to think we are asking for it or not doing enough to stop it. Ladies, ladies, pro tip: next time a man cat calls you or gets in your space on the street, belch. I know, it sounds coarse and unwieldy (who has a belch on hand at all times?). But in my experience it…

The overwhelming majority of women are saying WE DON"T LIKE THIS and men on fb are still commenting "but how will we meet girls if we don't talk to them?", idk bruh, NOT LIKE THIS.

I totally agree with this. As a black woman, I feel like the most harsh and nit-picky judgements of the appearances of black women (usually hair related) come from other black women.

Woman here! I *usually* take the exact opposite stance on things here, but I can't help but feel like the responsibility is on women not to cross that line. It's just rude for a woman to hit a man because it puts him in a position where no matter what he does he can't win. I feel bad for the menz on this one. I think…

I am just...infuriated. The behavior of this Congress is criminal.

OMG you're so British! (maybe I'm also poorly socialized...)

Hmm but I think thats not quite true. When a girl gets her first period (usually this happens in the early teen years) its a bit of a stretch to say that the community at large consideres her a woman. I would argue that the physical ability to bear children isn't the marker of a girl's FULL transition into womanhood…

right exactly. This.

I think the idea that your rape crisis center was trying to convey was that the people responsible for rape and sexual assault are the perpetrators of the crimes and not the victims. If you compare that sheet handed out to you by the rape crisis center to the advice that many young women, myself included, receive from…