As a representative of my people, I can only confirm this as intermediately level whiteness.

I would buy it in a second if it didn’t have “LDR” engraved on one side. Which is why I’m searching the internet for an alternative! I want to put glitter in it.

Something tells me you’re a fan of Les Cousins.

Of course Kabbalah is horrible cultural appropriation. So is Christianity — massive theft is more like it — but I don’t voice that opinion much.

That circumcision of a non-Jewish spouse rumour was around the non-Kabbalah-linked actor Natalie Portman when she was due to marry Benjamin Millepied.

Would it be better for no one to raise any counter arguments or opposing views? To not point out any weaknesses or internal contradictions? You may not agree with the devil’s points, but just ignoring them only weakens your own argument.

This is satire, right? You don’t honestly believe we should be banning/censoring art just because a committee thinks its similar to a particular style?

Ok, this is what I’m getting at: Say that you, as a proud Ecuadorian, wanted to sell a line of snappy hats inspired your Incan ancestry. Then a group indigenous Ecuadorians sues you for intellectual property rights because they can legitimately claim to be “more Ecuadorian” than you.

Yeah, but the point is pretty solid. The Aztec culture is gone. They might descend from it, but the civilization fell, along with Rome and ancient Greece and tons of others. If cultural IP is now owned by members of that culture, who really owns that? Are we going to do DNA tests to see if you can use an image of…

Stay tuned for the sequel where there’s a specific scene that E.L. James has written where Ana beats off a dead horse. Here’s for hoping its a dream sequence.

If Sam Taylor-Johnson was set on petty revenge she should have cast Stephenie Meyer in a cameo role for 50 Shades

Most problematic was the unusual control that the author, EL James, had negotiated over the movie. Director and author clashed. “I like everyone — and I get really confused when they don’t like me. I was so confused by EL James. I don’t understand when I can’t navigate a person, when there’s no synergy.”

Well what did she expect, that E.L. James would be well-adjusted? “I like everyone and I get really confused when they don’t like me” is a weird thing to say. Liking someone isn’t reciprocal

Most problematic was the unusual control that the author,

This is a remarkably kind and compassionate response. The feelings around someone being the victim of a fatal violent crime are so difficult. One of my cousins was murdered about eight months ago, in a home invasion. Even though we weren’t particularly close (I have 39 first cousins on that side of the family, and our…

I’m holding out hope that he faked his death to get away from her and the family is all in on it.

Fuck, I hope none of the guy’s family reads this. How pissed would you be if someone you were close to died, and then a random chick who hardly knew him wrote about it on the internet. This man had a whole life, likely full of people who cared about him who actually struggled with his passing, and she’s reduced it to…

I taught a fancy prep school where more than one case of this occurred. I (young and single then!) remember discussing it with a midthirties married colleague and telling her I just didn’t get it, and she said, “Oh, I’ve never been tempted to do it, but I get it.” Her theory was that very young, newly married women…

If these were two gay people being persecuted for their orientation, this column would be full of outrage.

For one, the societal view and expectation that sex is an act of conquest for males and submission for females? Personal experiences are viewed through a lense and values largely crafted by the world we grew up in and inhabit.