You’d specify white there, because the story requires it. (Assuming the story requires the interaction between the kid’s race and the dominant race of the neighbourhood.) And if you wrote a white saviour story on purpose for some reason, you’d also specify that your saviour be white and the saved not be, because that…

It’s probably more than attention. There’s a rush when you do a good job, plus lots of drudgery, plus it’s unpredictable whether you get the rush or not. It’s possible there’s some intermittent reinforcement (like with Skinner’s pigeons) going on. It’s also possible a lot of actors who do pursue a career in Hollywood…

You can specify race or sex or whatever if it’s a bona fide occupational requirement (I’ve seen the example of casting a famous civil rights leader - the actor would need to be the same race and sex) but not otherwise. So for example bit parts like police or EMTs can be anyone, and race/sex shouldn’t be specified (and…

This. I only learned about coughing into your elbow a few years ago.

I think spitting in public is still illegal because it spreads germs. It became popular again a while back because baseball players spit a lot during their games. Or they were for a while, anyway. I don’t know. I don’t watch baseball.

I’m losing track. Are both candidates going to jail now?

You’re identifying with the main character and will go on repeating the loop until you can figure out why you identify with those stupid teenagers so much.

What about positive ratings? Do men feel devalued by “nice buns”?

1. Male and female sexual responses are different. Men don’t seem to care if they’re liked or not - they can still enjoy sex anyways - while women tend to need to feel respected - for us it’s more of a whole brain thing. I had a bf who talked about my body parts, gave me good ratings, yet left me feeling demeaned…

They had an article on it, is how I noticed.

I think the Celtic culture would have changed between then and now regardless, so it’s all water under the bridge. Even more recent oppression isn’t on the scale that NA Natives had to deal with. The residential schools in Canada did so much damage it will take generations to heal. I may be biased as a Celt in Canada,…

What if he had dressed as a turkey? Would that have worked better?

I don’t think Celts and Romans is on the same scale at all - Natives here in NA were overwhelmed by Europeans, lost almost all of their territory, and are still struggling to recover, while the Romans visited Britain, were the ruling class for a while, and left again.

Apparently we’ve switched to Indigenous now, or at least the CBC has. And I’m not sure First Nations included Metis or Inuit, while Aboriginal did. (I remember someone commenting on that at a meeting about ATVs in the parks.) Here are some definitions on a government website. They don’t have Indigenous listed there.…

I gave him the HR talk today, saying that homophobic speech was illegal and he needed to apologize, and he brushed it off, saying that people needed to have thicker skin. So I removed his website access and I assume people have crossed him off the invite list for meetings. He made it so easy.

It was a “joke” about a man’s girlfriend being his boyfriend, and something about not dropping his pants too quickly or it might upset his “boyfriend”. He later called the same man “sweetheart” or something similar. The girlfriend was on the same email thread. The man the insult was directed to didn’t seem to be too…

I haven’t worked in a workplace in a long time, and I haven’t come across something this bad either. If someone is making homophobic/sexist jokes, do they get immediately sacked or do they get a warning first? My instinct is a formal warning first, but I’m wondering if I’m out of date. The context is an advocacy group…

I saw a man in a kilt and cloak the other day. He had a lot of the kilt accessories, too. I thought the cloak looked weird, but what do I know?

and the hashtag #witch yields 2,714,600 Instagram posts (compared to a mere 1,772,500 for #Kardashian)

I really wish people would stop using the word gender to refer to biological sex. It really confuses things. (And I can see people arguing that biological gender and biological sex are two different things, with bio sex referring to genitals and bio gender referring to brain sex. Or would that be brain gender?)