Hey, all! Thanks for the correction! I'm so sorry—I definitely didn't mean to erase anyone's ethnicity or experiences. I clearly should have looked it up. I've actually never seen the show; I was just going by what the 12-year-old told me. (Now I will NEVER TRUST HER AGAIN.) It was part of a much larger conversation…

"NO, THE PRETTY LITTLE LIARS MAIN CAST ISN'T ALL WHITE 'BECAUSE NO BLACK PEOPLE TRIED OUT,'"

No. This is not racism. There is no troubling history of black folks using whiteface to oppress and marginalize whites. It may be silly and in poor taste, but it ain't racist. Not at all.

Cue influx of people who don't understand how racism and institutional power works in 3, 2, 1....

How dare you make me choose between red and white wine. It's like picking a favorite child. I'm pretty sure this is going to traumatize me.

While there might not be any actors of Arab descent on the cast, does anyone else think it's really cool that the actor playing the Genie was a result of colorblind casting?

I had the same exact feelings about Jasmine as a little girl. I am multiracial and while I'm not Middle Eastern, I connected with Jasmine because she was the only Disney princess who looked like me.

It's funny the anonymous actor uses Asian Americans as an example because it's not as if the theatre world cares about putting Asians in lead roles either. Remember the controversy over "The Nightingale," or this retelling of "Julius Caesar?"

More like, "too long; couldn't bother to read because I wanted to let everyone know my self-parodying Whitey McWhiterson clap-trap predictable nonsense." If you'd bothered to read the piece, you would know women (and men) in Nepal and India - where this practice still exists mainly in remote areas - are objecting to…

If a tradition has no purpose and causes innocent people to suffer, it should be given up. People who do horrible things have had the shield of tradition to hide behind for far to long and that's just as true in the west as it is anywhere else.

Onlooker: "What's that in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Captain Cultural Relativism!"

(Captain Cultural Relativism lands in the middle of the crowd, clad in tight multicolored spandex, so as to represent all the unique and special lands of the world, with an incredible golden tower shield strapped to…

The parts you didn't read include rampant rape, malnutrition, and lack of education of women subject to menstrual taboo. Also there is loss of employment, and a link to lack of sanitation and clean water. Apparently you don't care about helping women subject to those harms because it might remind you of the West in…

No. Some cultures are backwards. Some traditions are stupid and irrational — you know, like accepting that sexual harassment is okay because "boys will be boys." Oh, it's okay to criticize that because it happens in the West? But this isn't okay to criticize because it happens to occur in an Asian culture?…

I feel perfectly okay criticizing female genital mutilation, regardless of which culture happens to practice it.

There are health risks to this whole practice: improper sanitation, not being able to fully clean menstrual cloths in order to avoid later infections, oh, AND BEING FORCED TO CLUMP UP IN TINY SHACKS WITHOUT ELECTRICITY AND RUN THE RISK OF RAPE AND SNAKE BITE. But you go on, defending "traditions" that are just more…

I would love to see more articles like this on Jezebel. Thank you.

Though I wish it wasn't, your assumptions aren't unfounded. The neighbor we know best is extremely friendly. When we moved in, she baked a pie. She will talk for a LONG time if you let her. Other neighbors find her annoying... the lady across the street says she goes back inside whenever she sees D is out. It makes me…

Well, she must have had a decent account but at the same time, it's not like she was racking up new bills either. Though what I find a little weird is that no credit card company noticed she wasn't using her cards, the gas/ electric company didn't notice no usage, etc.

You know, I don't have such a hard time believing this. I see my neighbors but am only friendly with a few of them, and really it's only the ones next door I would notice if they were gone. Everybody's got a different schedule. There are houses in our neighborhood where the mail piles up, too, but I don't really pay…