How is it valuing whiteness? Japanese people (and East Asians in general) have been valuing paleness and soft features long before the west barged in.

Uh, yeah, but he survived and when he woke up, Julie tried to pay him to say that it Ryan who shot him and he almost did it but he ended up not doing it and the last time we see him he's getting on a bus and Ryan runs up and they share a look that's like "later, bro." Don't come at me re: the OC.

I feel guilty about slavery because it was an practice that to this day has led to a pattern of institutionalised racism and social injustice that unfairly privileges me over others. I feel guilty because of those privileges I get, that I did not earn in any way. I feel guilty because others do not have them.

"DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING..."

Didn't Jezebel just have an article about Kristin Bell and Dax Sheppard calling for a boycott of publications that run pictures of celebrity kids? This boy just lost his father, let's not put his picture all over the internet.

I'm Hispanic and light-skinned but when I was in the 6th grade, I got to play Harriet Tubman and I fucking killed it. My mom helped me to make the costume and ran lines with me. At one point in the monologue, I fell asleep because I read somewhere that she had narcolepsy from an injury as a child. She would fall…

Aw, way to step on Evil Abed's joke.

For everyone saying that we should withhold judgment until we know more: no. He acted unreasonably and disproportionately to the "threat." For some context: my parents live across the street from an entrance to a park/trail system. About a mile away, a psychiatric hospital (right term?) is also adjacent to the trail…

yay, new reading/listening.

Yeah, Scott Westerfeld!

It's a quote from Archer.

The "freedom" to own guns via 2nd Amendment is steeped with a high blood price. A blood price paid for by children in school, walking in public, preschoolers picking up a gun by their lazy parents and the blood price paid by adults who go to movies, teach in schools, walk in public. Amazing how people cling to their…

Psh TV scheduling is for olds. I watch all my shows at the funky cool new time of whenever the heck I want.

So she can finally be with Gordo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Several years ago I stood at a cold bus stop for, oh, forever. Upon boarding some guy said I looked so cold and grabbed by hand and started massaging it. At first I thought he was hitting on me, then it occurred to me that he was trying to slip off my engagement ring.

Sophie stood at the foot of what was once the Parliament House as smoke rose from its hulking remains. She opened her lungs to the smell of charred wood, asphalt, and flesh and grinned.

Meaning the quotation marks reference...no reflection on personal amorous choices. Although...

Sorry for the late response on this but I had to answer.
I met my step mother when I was 4. I lived with my mother until I was 10 years old, then moved in with my dad, step mother and step sister. Before that I would visit almost every weekend and always had a good relationship with my step mother and step sister who…

I love my stepmom, but it's definitely a delicate relationship to navigate. She became my stepmom when I was around 16, so it was really too late to become a mom figure, but she's lovely and we have a lot in common so we've worked out a good relationship over time. I think a lot of the deal with terrible…