To each his or her own. I just don't understand what's so awful about being a nanny. It's akin to being mistaken as a parolee? Really?

I agree with you that role models shouldn't just be celebrities, but in our "real life" as well. But too often the media choses to highlight stereotypical portraits of Black women (RHOA, Basketball Wives, Love & Hip Hop) with Black women pulling each other's weaves and fighting over lame ass men, acting as "jump offs"…

You've lost me. I have no idea what you are talking about.

We'll have to agree to disagree. I don't take it as a slight to be mistaken for someone entrusted with the care of another human being. It's a misunderstanding, you correct it, and move on with your life.

Honestly, mostly it's to comment on how cute the child is but not knowing whether to say "OMG, your baby is adorable" or "That baby is adorable!" When talking to people with people with kids in strollers it helps to know whether it's a parent or caregiver. There's no malice, really.

It's sad, but WoC, particularly Black women do not have too many role models in popular culture of highly successful Black women who command respect throughout the entertainment landscape (from selling out arenas to performing at the Grammys and Oscars). She seems nice, not-too-diva-like, in control of her sexuality,…

My cousin gets that. She's Black but dark-skinned, her husband is very light-skinned Black and their daughter is light-skinned, they live in a wealthy, mostly White area, where nannies with Caribbean ancestry are common. She says nope, "Sometimes I wish we had a nanny, though!" and keeps on truckin'.

My cousin gets that. She's Black but dark-skinned, her husband is very light-skinned Black and their daughter is light-skinned, they live in a wealthy, mostly White area, where nannies with Caribbean ancestry are common. She says nope, "Sometimes I wish we had a nanny, though!" and keeps on truckin'.

That is the best comment that has ever been commented.

Obviously, everyone likes who they like. But basing so much of your opinion about women based on their looks is so de-humanizing. They are a lot more than their exterior.

It's easier to make it as an entertainer if you are attractive, male or female. News at 11. Somehow being attractive minimizes one 's accomplishments?

It's so infantilizing to treat grown women like Beyonce and KP like they don't have agency. They may not make music that you like (fair enough) or make choices that you'd make but acting like they are not grown ass women running multi-million dollar businesses, writing and singing on multiple #1 singles and albums and…

It is not only rude, but it is dangerous, to invite someone into an unhygenic place. Cleanliness is encouraged by society because it is healthier and safer than the alternative. Offering someone food on a plate with crusted food on it (it's happened to me) obviously proves to me that the dishes weren't cleaned…

You compromise to have friends, family, and lovers around you. Cleaning for someone else can often be a sign of respect for another person, as is dressing a certain way, trying things sexually, etc. No one is "owed" relationships with other—-they are based on mutual respect. Someone who knew for weeks that I would be…

I hear what you are saying...but...sometimes (most of the time?) there is nothing redeeming about "fat talk." It has become the standard of how some groups of women talk to each other and I know that I can't be around it without wanting to scream... Sometimes saying"shut up" by gently changing the subject from your…

Y ou have no idea. My son nurses for long stretches, until he is full. All babies are different.

In the future take a moment to actually think about the implications of what you are saying/writing/doing. If you know that Black women are compared unfavorably to White women every single day, if you are aware that many Black women chemically relax or wear weaves to gain hair texture more akin to White women's, if…

Perhaps because, on its face, comparing the sexual expression of a 50 year old, White American actress and a 25 year old West Indian pop star makes zero sense. The are a generation apart, not in the same field, not the same race, not the same nationality, and were born and raised in vastly different cultures. The…

It it solely my opinion, of course, but I believe that if you were as "up" on Black Feminism/Womanism as you contend to be, then comparing Rihanna's sexual expression unfavorably to a woman who is literally double her age and could be her mother, someone who is notnot in her same field, and who was not born and raised…

Whitney Houston (RIP) did not write her own music. Neither does Aretha Franklin or Celine Dion. They are not singers?