Leads to racial harmony, too.

The thing with India is that there are so many ethnic groups, and they also have a (rough) north-south gradient in terms of skin colour but also historical political clout, so it's really hard to disentangle skin tone and economic power and political power and privilege. What would be really interesting would be to…

And you're derailing her, trying to object to "I hate white people" as ignorant and unhelpful (which it is) by dragging her into a discussion racial politics. Her statement was no more ignorant or offensive than the first post.

You're not 'white'? Their brains are gonna explode :)

Go haze yourself.

This is similar to my family. We are opting out of the whole rigmarole; classify this, formfillers!

I know that Indian culture has (in some ways) a bias toward light skin colour that predates serious colonial activity in the area, but there was always a lot more influence from other regions there, so it's not an exact parallel.

And in those photos (not in most others I've seen) they all have pretty identical skin tones, too. Makes me wonder if they used some filter to create a "trendy" hair colour.

new fiancée Evan Ross

Yeah. Cowell's going to be the father of the child's brother/sister, and possibly his de facto (or actual) stepfather. This sort of thing is only justified if the third party is a direct or indirect (criminal, drug addict, otherwise likely to expose the child to some kind of harm) threat. "The guy knocked up my wife"…

Exactly. My reaction to the original comment was, "it depends what you mean by NEED to wear makeup." Very few jobs explicitly require it, or even will have managers/bosses who tell you it's preferable. But if you present as less healthy, attractive, or well groomed than the rest of your colleagues, based entirely on…

Yeah, "hungover for 9 months" is about how I found it too. Plus joint pain.

Yeah. You're attracted to what you're attracted to, and that's fair enough whoever you are and whatever floats your boat. But if men are "entitled" to VS models whose favourite activities are making sandwiches and giving blowjobs, then women are just as entitled to whatever Fabio-romance-novel-cover is the equivalent.

Men seem, in these situations (no, not all men) to feel entitled to a woman's attraction. They never see themselves as the fat/ugly chick who's cast because the thought of her being attractive is hi-la-rious - they all cast themselves as Victoria's Secret models. I see this as a huge difference between the sexes -…

My first thought as well. We're going to hell.

Meh, it's not representative of the internet as much as of Jezebel.

And rudeness is neither criminal nor a form of physical assault.

At this point, it speaks well of you that you are in the greys :)

And, y'know, if Conan or whoever said it, I'd probably laugh. Because I don't like Kim K. But I wouldn't be proud of myself for laughing. Bodysnark is not ok. Feminists bodysnarking is not ok. Feminists who've built much of their career around telling other people to stop fat shaming is so un-ok I don't even know…

Different strokes for different folks indeed. Casual sex, like eating your boogers, grosses me out. If you want to have casual sex, or eat your boogers, I will defend to the death your right to do so. But I ain't gonna pretend it's something I ever want to do. Yuck.