Sweeping generalizations - when using words such as "always" - are not really accurate. Unless a person is clairvoyant and is able to read minds, that person will never know what other people are really thinking.

Agreed. And she does have a gorgeous voice.

I never gave it much thought. I really wasn't aware that black women's hair was treated as an oddity; I certainly don't think of it in that way. Maybe it's because I was brought up in a non-racist home, where, as a child, I learned to be accepting of all people's physical appearances.

With some white people, it might be entitlement, but on the other hand, not everybody thinks alike. Re: running one's fingers through a stranger's hair: it might be motivated by condescension or sincere yet thoughtless enthusiasm. For whatever it's worth, I'm white, and people of various ethnic heritages have run…

I see what you mean. That was a poor choice on my part. It was thoughtless of me, and I apologize.

In my opinion, I feel you are missing jennyapples' point: Look, for better or for worse, it's only human nature to react strongly when noticing someone of a different ethnicity who has physical traits different from one's own. This reaction is not necessarily bigoted - sometimes, an emotional reaction to a difference…

Ever since I was a little girl, people have run their fingers through my curly, rippling, voluminous hair. I always felt ambivalent about this: on the one hand, it's kind of flattering, but on the other hand, it's intrusive. I'm a white lady of English, Anglo-Saxon descent. Yeah, I said that. Because unthinking…

Agreed.

Agreed. I'm white, and ever since I was a little girl, people have always run their fingers through my hair. I've always felt ambiguous about this; on the one hand, it's kind of flattering, but on the other hand, it's very intrusive - exacerbated by the fact I'm very shy.

I understand why his neighbor hate this - it's ugly.

I could never get into "The Sound Of Music": too corny, too sugary-sweet, and goody-two-shoes for my taste - but that's just me. It wouldn't be realistic to believe everyone has the same tastes about everything.

Meh. I'm sorry if I sound a bit cynical, but I could never get into "The Sound Of Music" - too saccharine and goody-goody for my personal taste. Yes, yes, yes, yes...I'm aware its success at the box office saved 20th Century Fox Studios from financial ruin (the ruin that was partly due to the disaster of the 1963…

Gee, how very condescending, you schmuck.

Oh, goodie: an anal-retentive nitpicker.

People have the right to give themselves whatever name they wish. People don't have the right to tell people to change their names or online nicknames.

"...I feel like the vitriol amounts to basically bullying and I'm not willing to change my name because a bully tries to force me to." Exactly. I agree.

I know what you mean; I once had a similar experience. Well, you can't win when it comes to race issues here on Jezebel, which seems to attract a lot of angry, unhappy people, who choose to be unhappy about everything.

Very well-said. I completely agree.

It seems you didn't thoroughly read my most recent response, in which I stated that some overweight people don't take personal responsibility - not all of them. There's a difference between the words "some" and "all".

Well, for us white people, being bi-racial is a bit different from us, since many bi-racial or multi-racial people will have a parent or parents who are non-white people of color, so of course, they won't physically look that much like us. And, too, regarding us white people of multi-European stock: we still look…