Except white people have a disproportionate representation in congress, control a disproportionate amount of jobs, and control a disproportionate amount of wealth in this country. When there is this imbalance of power, the majority with all the power disparaging a minority with little of the power is a fucking actual…

"I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the…

Fucking Butler chapter of TKE. Didn't they get banned or suspended?

Oh god, if a textbook said it, that must be the end of the conversation. Job done. Go home, Cornel West, your services are no longer required.

I was not surprised this was TKE. I went to Butler, which is in Indianapolis where they are based, and their house was right across the street from my freshman dorm. Their yearly tradition was to play "Dominic, the Italian Christmas Donkey" on loud speakers (so the entire campus could hear) on a loop during finals week…

Basically what you're doing is equating someone expressing anger at the behavior of a dominant majority to the oppression that dominant majority has wielded for hundreds of years. It kind of makes you look like you haven't been paying attention to your history.

It's even fucking worse when the majority of that type of comment is trying to defend "the majority" of white people and not expressing sympathetic outrage at the actual blatant racism in the first place.

Oh no, my feeeeelings! I had a small black lab-mix named Roxy who we just put down this year. She reached the respectable age of 16.

That first season was so good. So good. Then it became all about the mystery rather than the cast and characters, and it died.

True Blood doesn't care what we think. True Blood makes its own way in the world.

I don't think I agree with you in this case because it does seem like he may have targeted her because she was already emotionally vulnerable. He was taking on the responsibility of a counselor and as anyone in the therapy profession will tell you, the patient-doctor relationship is an incredibly imbalanced one in…

Well I'm in England at the moment, which has been kind of

Wait, do you mean Tom Stoppard?

Can I have a reading list from Margaret Atwood instead?

I can't tell if it's a blister or her toenail. I think I remember hearing that she used to be a ballerina, which would account for really messed up feet.

Being under five foot myself I sort of agree with you, but if the dress is structured right, they can come off looking really glamorous.

I was going to say, right now I'm eyeing a $50 night moisturizer because my face is so uncomfortable right now. I don't know if it makes me feel better or worse that Martha Stewart spends about the same amount on her moisturizers. When I read the title, I swear I thought they were going to say Martha slathers her face…

I have a feeling that this has a lot to do with frequency that trans women get this question. It might, in fact, be the only question they receive too often, and it's one that is really invasive and inconsiderate, and it's probably rarely ever worded well. And it definitely doesn't seem to me to be at all out of line…

Ooooh, AAR. Also Div School grad students (at least at U of Chicago) can drink. I had to limit my social engagements with my fellow History of Religions cohorts for the sake of my liver.

What? The fuck?