This. I'm white and female, married to an Asian guy, and nearly all the weird, racist comments I've heard about our marriage have been from white men. Some white guys really can't deal with the idea that one of "their" women might prefer a non-white man.

That's not how employment law works. In general, no one is holding a gun to anyone's head to make them work - that would be slavery. However, the fact that you've chosen to work for a particular employer does not give that employer the right to exploit you.

Based on my completely anecdotal experience, I think it's not uncommon for socially anxious people to prefer very mannered forms of conversation. My father, who is white, lives in a community where there are many older-generation
Japanese-Americans, and he loves it, partly because their relatively formal ways of…

Awesome! There aren't enough of us running around out there. :)

I agree that her comments are kind of eye-rolling, but I also really don't think that telling teenage girls to shut up is a feminist statement. I don't want teenage girls to shut up, however annoying they are. I want them to get into the habit of speaking their minds, and as they get older it's more likely that…

Wait, you mean that the half-billion Indian guys who exist in the world are not all the same? That's just crazy talk.

Haha, I'm glad my inability to recognize a joke was helpful to someone.

Ah. Sorry!

Ah. Sorry!

Erm... Cressida was one of the heroines of the Trojan War. Shakespeare wrote a play about her, and she pops up regularly in the Iliad, the Metamorphoses, and other classical literature.

I have the opposite issue with my parents. They lived in the apartment where my sister and I grew up for more than thirty years, and we also owned the house where my dad grew up, which was full of family photographs and other treasures (like my late grandmother's beautiful watercolors). When I was in grad school they…

Facebook just allows humans to communicate. It isn't the problem here. Getting rid of Facebook will not rid you of
obnoxious people unless you also become a hermit.

My husband is also fourteen years older than me. Even if he were sick I would rather be with him than be having "a fun and exciting sex life" with anyone else.

She's not speaking "ineptly." She's speaking in dialect.

I don't know if this is what you're thinking of, but I really liked this article: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/opi…

I'm so sorry he did that to you.

Of course I know that men can be sexually harassed. However, that's not what this particular post is about. Having been sexually harassed also doesn't give you the right to tell this woman that she brought the harassment on herself by choosing to date Caucasian men.

That's pretty much what the original post says.

Indeed. Not dating white men will surely prevent you from ever being sexually harassed by one. That's usually how it works.

I never said they were. I think you're confusing me with a different commenter.