It bothers me a lot — I only made it through an episode and a half. Even though my tv-watching habits lean heavily towards the Anglophile, I am apparently just a special American snowflake at my core, and so I can’t handle British cringe humor.

She was best! Generous and fearless.

My great aunt was in this cult. Despite the huge negatives (chief among them, the whole worshipping some rando as a god), they did a lot of good.

Silly me, I don’t know why I didn’t think of him yesterday. Brain fart. Or maybe I “remembered” he’s not “black”, he’s “cablinasian.”

I think you disproved your own point: “cunt” and “pussy” as slurs are specifically aimed at men, especially queer/feminine/effeminate men. I agree that there’s a lot of unexamined gay male privilege, but this isn’t a good example of that phenomenon.

Oh, also:

Oh come on, dumbass. There are 100s (1000s?) of genes that come together in a stew that humans currently sort into racial categories. I’m almost certainly more closely related to Queen Elizabeth than I am to Iman, but Iman and I are “the same race” in our weirdass categorization scheme.

Really? That one seemed the most plausible to me. But then, in a moment of hemmerhoid induced desperation, I did once lay out every sharp, pointy object in my house on my bed to figure out which one might give me the most relief. Luckily, I opted to take sleeping pills instead so that I’d be unconscious by the time…

Hey, wait a minute - when I was a kid, I just knew I’d once been a Jewish girl who lived in the Pale and died during childbirth at 19. I mean, I might have just been a black kid from Atlanta who watched Fiddler on the Roof at least once a week for a decade, but the point is, some of us actually do aim low in our past…

FYI, I think the reason that some of the deals in the mobile section wouldn’t generate amazon insets is that the links are broken — the urls are prefaced with deals.kinja.com

FYI, I think the reason that some of the deals in the mobile section wouldn’t generate amazon insets is that the…

The most shocking part of this story is that Obama’s favorite cookie is the Oreo. For me, the cookie is permanently associated with that day in middle school when I learned that being black is apparently somehow negated by things like being really into Star Trek and not being able to speak AAVE. Granted, Obama is way…

SAME! I used put it up against my cheek because it was so smooth. And now the memory is making me dry heave a little bit.

You seem to be having difficulty understanding the *possible* scenario the other commenters are speculating about. Some people are incapable of making inferences. Learning to infer from facts is an important stage of child development that everyone achieves.

There was a magical time (late 90s tech boom) when Manhattanites could have a single pint of ice cream delivered - no delivery fee, no tip. It was a great time to be a lazy college student. But, yeah, those companies all went out of business in a year or two.

Hey, I get cranky when I don’t sleep!

So, you’re saying you don’t have trouble falling asleep? Could that mean then that this app is not meant for you? Nah, its obvious that if Tyler Style doesn’t need it, no one else does either.

I do feel (a little) bad for Zoe because, at the end of the day, she’s still a black woman. It’s not just solidarity: she might be Hollywood’s favorite version of a black woman (exactly like a white model, but brown...ish) & she’s probably among the first the big studios call, but how often are black women cast in…

Whaaa? Can’t figure out why so many disliked the song. It was great! Brought me right back to 1994: I’m riding the school bus, snuggling with my boyfriend (who came out a few years later), while a smooth R&B jam (that I hated at the time) plays on V103 (the people’s station), which our bus driver won’t turn off or…

Oy and the eyebrows! Jones’ skinny ass eyebrows in her video showed an impressive level of dedication to her craft. I hope they grow back! (or that it was makeup!)

Shows on Channel 4 tend to be a little “edgier”. The US analogy would be if the various BBC channels are like ABC, CBS, NBC, then Channel 4 is like a basic cable channel. 15 years ago, old fuddy duddies thought 4 was trashy, but (just like basic cable vs the networks in the us), BBC channels are just as likely to…