Why would anyone read the book. Person eats bad, expensive food for a year. Did this help her self-actualize in anyway lol :)

This "might" increase fat shaming? If you take it out of context, have no clue what the actual dialogue is, then yes I suppose you might be able to come up with a situation in which it "might" increase fat shaming. A sensitivity training might increase fat shaming. Hmmm. Yeah they should probably not even try then.

Oh thanks. I didn't even realize one could look up people's past comments. I think my gawker/jezebel addiction just got a lot worse...

So if I become a doctor, and then I have to work with a Somali refugee population that I am not familiar with culturally I should just quit?

Because everyone isn't already as enlightened as I am I don't think they should work on opening their minds.

Yeah punishing easily led losers doesn't seem like a great use of resources or particularly kind. I'd rather punish the people that manipulate these poor fools.

I just use word reference for everything. Its a great tool. Although I'm becoming lazy and using wiktionary more and more.

Your response was a strong reaction of indignation, the word for this is outrage.

Its a piece of art. People cry. The world moves on.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Is this really enough to earn her the epithet "racist"?!?! Insensitive OK, blind to a type of white-privilege OK, but racist?

Which is why Sochi is such an awful site for the Olympics, given as its the site of ground zero of the Circassian genocide in the 19th century. I am amazed how the word Circassian doesn't even come up once in articles about Sochi. Its like holding the Olympics at Bergen-Belsen.

Wait it's 2014 and governments still give titles to a small elite class for no reason other than an accident of birth?

I completely agree with you. I think because of society's f-ed up gender norms women are socially "wired" to not be into hookups. So I empathize with this guy that women are wired differently, but not because of genetics, because of the fucking patriarchy. Does that make sense?

Yeah but you see I am in a college town and all my gay friends are grad students and professors and that doesn't stop them from putting their face plus shirtless torso out where any undergrad could see when go a hunting for a sexing. I don't think its because men and women are "wired" differently, I think its because…

Other men. The idea is that only gay men can really use apps for straight up sex.

Its great that you are comfortable using apps to hookup, I know lots of gay men that do the same thing. But none of the women I know who use tindr use it to hook-up. They all use it to go on dates. Whereas I can be out to brunch with a gay man who will find another gay man on whatever-app-os-cooler-than-grindr-now and…

Oh ha, that wasn't directed towards you, I myself had made a bunch of typos, so I retyped my response :)

America just gave India, Pakistan and China the cover to start going after their consular staff for every traffic infraction. This was a dumb move by the US, which we will regret. But no one has ever accused the US of being adept at diplomacy or foreign relations (exhibit A: America's relationship with the Middle…

I would add my two cents that how we imagined "caste" to function forty or fifty years ago was largely the product of the imagination of Western anthropologists and British imperials bureaucrats. The work of Bernard Cohn in An Anthropologist among the Historians and other Essays and Nick Dirks in Castes of Mind really…

I'm defending a principle which Obama voiced support of in uncertain terms just last year. I'm asking do we all play by the same rules or not?