Whatever. The system, like myself, is totally colorblind.

Also, I find it interesting that this is one of the few times I've found people complaining about the writing style used by a Jezebel contributor as being "juvenile" or "lacking in skill," even though plenty of other contributors on this site use a similar style (most of them, even).

Using popular language effectively and creatively takes every bit as much skill as using technical/formal language. Sometimes even more so.

There are certain concepts that vernacular much more efficiently conveys than formal language.

(The judge, not minority crimes)

It goes a hell of a lot deeper than that. For example, in recent reports about NYPD "stop and frisk" policies, once somebody is randomly stopped by police (which is already far more likely to be a black person than a white person), the black person is about TEN TIMES more likely to be frisked than the white person.…

Excellent points across the board. I've got nothing more to offer beyond mad rep.

Yeeeaaah, the "limited gene pool, remember?" line had me wincing internally as well.

Describing it the way that you do is a bit disingenuous, I think. Anonymous issued some very dire warnings and veiled threats along the way, and made it clear they would be more than happy to escalate matters beyond a couple of email hacks (which is still pretty damn serious - even if our government is clearly not…

Lions and tigers and balls! Oh my!

I'm not surprised. The FBI is none too fond of Anonymous in general, but now that they've taken vigilantism to this kind of level, the feds are going to want to nip it in the bud clearly and publicly ASAP before others start to get the idea that they can get away with this with no repurcusions. And while I'm largely…

Let me spell my main point out for you as clearly as I possibly can:

There's plenty that can be argued about how cultural norms play out on the kink scene, but even if I were to grant you that, it still says absolutely nothing about women as a whole. Most women are not involved in the kink scene in any way (nor are most men). Fetlife is NOT a representative sample.

Dude, I'm a pretty kink-friendly person, but your use of the word "most" makes me want to forget your safe-word.

It's amazing the effect this has when read out loud. I get so used to reading shit like this on comment sites that my eyes start to slide over it after awhile, but hearing it brings it back into very sharp relief.

It would be fascinating to watch if the series does end up overtaking the books, if for no other reason than something like that is (as far as I know) unprecedented in the history of TV and literature.

He's an evolutionary psychologist. A field notorious for people spouting off bullshit about how cultural specific norms are actually biologically ingrained results of human evolution.

Ahhhh, okay. Thank you.

I... don't really see how this contradicts anything that I said. My point was that if one person of a given group gives a person the okay to use a derogatory name towards does not mean that that right is now extended to every other member of that group. Because, as you said, it's not like they all know each other or…

God, I miss Perkins. I moved out to Rhode Island from Iowa a couple of years ago and I still can't find anything to replace it.