I can't even pretend I understand what these questions mean, but I am going to assume they're important.

I think this is why this particular segment of the population is so attracted to both gaming and harassment—it's the exact opposite of self-reflection, of self-knowledge. It's an external method of building elaborate fantasy lives to the point where you literally forget that other people exist. Then, when those other…

But it's really about ethics in comedic satirism.

That bit they forced Octavia into was so fucked up. I don't understand why it was an idea. Or why so many people went along with it that it wound up in the actual broadcast. The racial politics of the ceremony were pointed enough without taking one of the few women of color to ever be honored with an acting prize at…

That killed that moment. We were all like WTF did that woman-beater just say? Did he just say what I think he said??

Not to mention, if Rihanna was my daughter and brought Leo home it'd be so hard for me to not be like, "Girl, he is a bloated middle aged model-chasing walking mid-life crisis. You can do better..."

My parents would always warn me that I should watch how much time I spend with other black/brown people on my job because white people get anxious when more than 2 POC get together on a regular basis. My parents grew up in Texas during Jim Crow so they knew what they were talking about.

ISIS: The Juggalos of the Levant.

I haven't listened to anything and I have only read what has appeared on this site. Furthermore, I didn't even know this Amber person existed until this mess let alone that she dated that idiot. All of that said, there is simply no way on god's green earth that saying that he had to take 30 showers before he could…

A few weeks ago, I was out on a Saturday night with some friends. One friend and I stepped outside the bar to get some fresh air for a few minutes. There were 2 guys out there - guy #1 seemed perfectly normal, but embarrassed, because guy #2 was being a loud obnoxious drunk. My friend and I were having a nice…

"I am not now to learn,'' replied Mr. Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, "that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second or even a third time. I am therefore by…

Unless you literally hear banjos, it's not racism.

The part that upset me the most was how offended she was about the I Can't Breathe t-shirts. Sorry, what? A movie made you feel uncomfortable and you're resentful that the cast continues to make you feel uncomfortable about the film's messages? There's just a complete lack of self-awareness in that.

My favorite is "How will I explain this to my children?"

I propose that we all start referring to commercial fiction written by men as "dick lit." I'm guessing it would take approximately .02 seconds for men across the world to feel outraged.

"Mr. Dickens, a pleasure to meet you. I am a visitor from the future. Funny story, I almost didn't read A Tale of Two Cities because a woman recommended it to a lot of other women. I figured it would be all menstrual cramps and griping."

Agreed 100%, and this just speaks (again) to the point that "women's interests" are largely considered trival, superficial, stupid, and fake. The fact that we even have a separate designation for fiction about women is bad enough, but on top of that, it's spoken about disparagingly. Like anything else, something based…

I've read both Franzen and Weiner. His stuff is not the high falutin' literature that he thinks it is. Her stuff is very readable but on the lighter side.

Frazen was the basis of a book rant that I give about how I'm tired of reading about the fall of the American Dream from the eyes of an upper middle class white dude.

While we're calling out perp's race, let's also mention the class of the lynchers: working class and poor whites. For them, lynching was a sick, violent form of street theater that highlighted the social privileges of whiteness—which, for poor white trash, was the only power they had . The rich, white 1% who owned…