I also love Vin Diesel, primarily because he so clearly finds his own over-the-top glorification of masculinity absolutely hilarious and has no problem laughing at himself. Also, thinking about Vin Diesel is so much better than thinking about either Mitt Romney or Kevin D. Williamson, and so much less infuriating. Can…

:dies laughing

It's from here: http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/07/the_faces_and_reactions_in_the_audience_as_mitt_romney_delivered_naacp_speech.html

I agree with ReelFashion1sta: "Blinded by the White" is now the official Romney/Ryan 2012 campaign slogan, whether they want it or not.

In my experience as the editor of a social science research journal, the nonprofit group I worked for required that we use "African American" and "Native American," as those were considered more respectful and more accurate than "black" or "Indian." Given that the company was about 40% African American and mostly…

I don't know why you'd have any issues with this. I mean, it's just a non-critical celebration of a bunch of old, wealthy, powerful, privileged white men in suits being served drinks by and dancing with a bunch of young, nonwhite, nonprivileged, mostly naked women who they used to oppress and own. What could possibly…

I don't think you have to learn it in school (although any American history class that includes the civil rights era will certainly cover it)—it's not as if there aren't a thousand books and movies and articles that explain the use of animal imagery to demean black people. Some people just choose to be willfully…

Pretty much. One of the original articles on it is here: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/20/south.africa.female.condom/

Not only is it real, but when the designer tried to get them sold in South Africa (as another commenter mentioned), lots of people freaked out and said she was trying to attack men and that RAPEX condoms are the equivalent of booby-trapping your home with a shotgun or something, despite the fact that you have to…

He didn't even say "fetus"—he said you are punishing a "child." Because the ball of cells that is stuck to the wall of your uterus a few days after being raped is the same as an adorable, cuddly toddler, don't you know?!

Yup, the end of that sentence is "on the child." Not even "fetus" or "unborn baby." Just "child." He never once mentions the actual woman who has been raped and is now pregnant with the rapist's fetus.

Yup, I was told things like "it hardly ever happens" and "men don't usually ejaculate during rape, and stress can make you not ovulate" back in the 80s when I was being raised by my very religious parents. As a kid, it didn't occur to me to say, "But even if it only happens one time, shouldn't that one woman get to…

I try to think of it the other way around: What if my sweet, kind, wonderful little girl grew up and became a fundamentalist Christian who hates gays and enters into one of those marriages where she is the servant of her husband? It's not a crazy idea—we live in an area where a huge proportion of people live like that…

LOL! Being alive leads to certain death, too. I'm thinking that dental assistant maybe have exaggerated just a tad. Yes, gum disease increases your risk of endocarditis and a variety of unpleasant and dangerous illnesses, but certain death? I wouldn't go quite that far.

Those things are fucking horrific. They are the worst part about a dental visit, I swear to God. I almost couldn't bear to take my preschooler to the dentist this year, despite the fact that she really needed a cleaning and we have insurance and can afford it, because of those X-ray bitewings. I know how much they…

LOL—I think they were just cheap polyester and were scratchy. I hated them as a kid, and I still dislike wearing polyester as an adult; it always feels awful on my skin.

In the kids' show "Olivia," which stars the most awesome little girl (who happens to be a pig) ever, she always refers to her brother as "my little bother." She is phenomenally hilarious and fantastic—I love that my two daughters love her.

She's actually talking about tiny beads, not poop. Disposable diapers are filled with these tiny, water-absorbent beads that soak up the baby's pee, and if your baby is clever enough to tear their diaper open, the little fuckers go everywhere and are a pain in the ass to clean up.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one—there are no lilies in that picture that I can see. I'm going to go with purple loosestrife, but I'm not sure. Delphinium usually have white centers, I think, so I don't think that's what they are, but I'm not a flower expert by any stretch of the imagination.