I don't know, isn't it great to show young girls that they can be smart AND sexy, tough AND sexy, politically active AND (most importantly) sexy? Girls: you can be anything you want just as long as you remember to stay sexy while doing it.

Tell me again how the west is superior to all those backward barbaric cultures that practice FGM.

I would totally watch a movie about a squad of elite Iraqi commandos who undertake a perilous mission to assassinate Cheney.

Would you say the Jingoism is... unchained?

Some more brain facts:

Sure, but you could use the same logic about choosing how to use your own body to attack minimum wage laws. Restrictions against prostitution don't put any limits on how anyone can use their own body, only what they can exchange that body for. It's this distinction, between use and exchange, where society has a…

Counterpoint: I smoke all the time and I'm dumb as hell.

Agreed with you about a piece like this. But there are many good feminists out there who do recognize themselves as being in solidarity with all oppressed peoples, just don't look for them around here.

Yeah, the increased enfranchisement of the class of parasitic hedge fund managers isn't positive for anyone.

Don't worry, they'll go the way of Newsweek soon enough.

I didn't find it misleading, if it was the government it would have just referred to the 'U.S.' instead of U.S. dollars specifically.

Sorry, but if you're looking for lazy racist stereotyping then I think you have me confused with LateforDinner.

No one is upset at the fact that they are asking for mothers. Are you under the impression that that is somehow at issue here?

I don't see what their children would have to do with anything. Were they there making wisecracks and adorably spilling salsa while their mamcitas did your hair and gave you the down-low on how to be truly passionate and caliente?

Wow, that's really great that some loud, sexy, brash Latinas were able to straighten you up and get your mind right. How did they get along with your gay best friend?

I want to force them all to watch Spike Lee's Bamboozled clockwork-orange style

You have a very poor understanding of racism if you believe that white people have ever been a victim of it in America.

White people not being able to dress up as black people—a serious problem that it is appropriate to care about.

You should probably fore-go dressing as the Klan, yes. Let me know if you have any other questions that are dumb as hell as I'm happy to help.

Their intent is immaterial, it is the blackface itself that is racist because it's tied to a history of the dehumanization of black people.