You were able to resist him because he followed it up with “it looks good on you.” Rookie mistake. You gotta commit fully.

“You really look like a woman now” strikes me as the rare sort of sentence that could never not be creepy.

I thought of Gak when I saw this.

HOW

Maryann Johanson has some THOUGHTS

genuinely confused what sequence of events transpired for Hollywood to decide “AMERICA NEEDS ANOTHER PAUL BLART MOVIE”

The poster JUST said that they were still learning about cultural appropriation. They said it was an honest question and they really do not know. So why are you being so mean? Stop being a dick and assuming everyone is racist.

As with everything else, depends on who you talk to. For some this is seen as assimilation. For others, this is seen as appropriation because they and there family were not born into the culture. Yes, there are people out there who are argue that fresh from the continent African immigrants can not call themselves…

Is that your line in the sand then, that it’s alright to copy elements of other cultures as long as they don’t hold any ceremonial or religious meaning?

Please if anyone can answer a probably dumb but honest question about cultural appropriation? I know a family from Africa who grew up there and came to the U.S. as older teens. The culture in the country they come from is very different than Black American culture. Since living here they have started to act, dress and…

You know, I grew up in a small-ish town in a small province where there was a lot of racism. It wasn’t as violent as this, but it was there. I didn’t grow up knowing it was wrong, just that it was normal - every said shitty things and it was just the way it was. It didn’t occur to me to think differently until I was…

Can we please have a moratorium on national media outlets making pariahs out of children? I don’t want to live in a world where adults make money by “calling out” 14-year-olds.

Pretty much both.

My mom used to buy Avon from friends because she felt bad for them. They always seemed desperate to make a sale. Not sure if it’s because Avon treated them badly or if it was some kind of pyramid scheme or what.

Feels like this should play in the background:

OBJECTION . . . YOLO

You appear to have a problem. Maybe try dialing the righteous indignation down to 11 and click here

Another thing I thought was interesting: the jury, despite not being sequestered, said they never heard the 2012 double-murder allegations against Hernandez until the trial was over. (And that they felt even more confident in their verdict once they learned of it.)

I summon AMATEUR LEGAL EXPERTS OF KINJA

I truly care less about her marriage or her gender than I do about her behavior as it relates to the private email server. I simply have huge heartburn over it. We are not stupid. Moving all your government work emails onto a private server is done for one reason and one reason only - to control access to publicly…