The unfortunate reality is that many people of a majority group tend to only take the struggles of minority groups seriously when a majority ally says it. This happens in feminism all. the. time. See also: how many people cared about gay marriage when only gay people were talking about it?

The acknowledgement of white privilege is a long, drawn-out process that takes several calm, open-minded conversations. I know, because I've gotten a couple of people in my life to acknowledge theirs after denying it for a long time. Twitter isn't the forum for it.

Was anyone legitimately surprised to learn that white people are able to get away with damn near anything by the police?

AGREED.

TBQH, I was thinking to myself that this article would have probably had a LOT more lines drawn in the sand vis a vis sympathy for abusers had it been written by a cis man.

Nope. Reread, because that is the very opposite of the a priori assumption here. People are people. Men are men because of reinforced and reinforcing oppressive frameworks. Men, as an oppressor class, exist because of these frameworks. Human males are not inherently brutal and toxic, so you guys needs to change what…

I think the basic point of the article was that men are *not* inherently brutal and toxic. Society teaches them to be this way. If it really was inherent, changing their socialization as the article advocates wouldn't make it go away.

I take offense to calling Cumberbatch an Animorph.

I think this is actually what she seems angriest at, this idea that she is being forced into a narrative that makes her a symbol of victimhood and passive suffering that removes any sort of autonomy from her. Like she is so downtrodden and weak-willed that she couldn't have possibly chosen freely to marry him, or to…

This whole grey thing is also very weird to me. I miss the stars! I'm an Old Jezebel! Where's my star?! #getoffmylawn

Right? Chely Wright is an example. Her career definitely suffered when she came out but she's sill a very famous country singer and has advanced gay rights among country fans pretty substantially, at least based on my anecdotal but extremely redneck experience. Billy Gilman and Ty Herndon are fucking bold, and I hope…

Ten years ago, I would have agreed with you. I bet he gets a sales boost and doesn't give a shit if he never plays the Grand Ole Opry.

Or keep making country music for the people who love the genre and are tired of all the bigots and racist crackers dominating the fanbase?

Allegedly sexually assaulted her daughter. You mean allegedly in the context of something like O.J. Simpson allegedly murdered two people?

Squee! I love Eddie Izzard.

People who have been exposed to HIV don't generally have enough of the virus to test positive for the first 3-6 months. Until we have better tests, we do need to recognize this fact and try to limit the number of high-risk donors.

Equality would look like acknowledging that ALL donated blood is currently screened for HIV-1 and HIV-2 and you are no more likely to contract HIV from a blood donation given by a gay man that you would from a straight one.

Test the MSM blood more strigently. We have a shortage of blood, not ELISA kits.

Black people are also statistically more likely to be HIV positive. Do you suggest a ban against all black people giving blood?

Can we all just agree that hitting another human being is not a nice thing to do, regardless of how angry you are? Even if you're female?