Thank you! Also, accurate picture is accurate.

Today's my birthday and if the baby is born before the 15th ends in England, I'm going to have an extra slice of cake to celebrate!

Thank you for your thoughtful comment. I talked about some of the concerns you brought up in my reply to Athasin upthread, specifically about the productiveness or effectiveness of engaging in generalizations, in general.

Let me first say that my reply to you would be the same even had you not divulged your race in your comment.

Take a bow, madam or sir.

If you choose to derail a legitimate conversation about racism by needlessly defending yourself, then there is a serious reason why you are doing that. White people who truly, from the bottom of their hearts, are not racist wouldn't look at a comment like this and not see a slight against them. Truly non-racist white…

"If it's not about you, don't make it about you."

your comments make it sound like the only thing white people can do in your estimation is go ahead and die already.

I made the comment below in a thread started by HermioneStranger about certain white Jezzies taking offense at being lumped in with "white people" in general during the many, many discussions that have happened in the wake of the Zimmerman verdict. She asked for a little perspective - "Hey, fellow white ladies of…

Oh, I'm right there with you. Believe me, I'm a true blue atheist and nothing makes me sadder than that the family of Treyvon Martin went on tv this morning and said that this is now in God's hand and they're going to put their faith in God (implying, rather than the justice system). If anything God allowed this…

I hope so but I don't expect this to be reality. Too many people out there are celebrating his acquittal as if it were their own. He's more likely to get high-fives in the street than dirty looks. And even if he did get dirty looks and judged by most everyone he meets from now until the day he dies, so what? He…

I don't want to agree with you but I do. I honestly do. I honestly hope that karma comes around to him and pays him back not just for the pain and suffering and shock and despair and confusion and fear that boy must have felt in that last few moments of his life bleeding to death on the grass, but also for…

Thank you for offering, I'll do that!

Hey now, Hobbits are adorable and lovely. Starnes is an orc only not as lovable.

Thanks for that, but sadly I don't think moving my comment to its own thread would make a difference. Some people are determined to be offended to make these discussions all about them. There are hundreds of replies and recommends of comments of white people moaning and groaning about not having a specific exception…

In addition to teaching him that every person's life has value regardless of how they look, teach him that the struggle continues for equality. That there is still so much progress that needs to be made. That we do not live in some kind of post-racial, kumbaya, harmonious land of peace and love just because we had a…

I want to sincerely thank you for being aware of your privilege and for recognizing that while you may not be 100% able to empathize with certain oppressed groups, you can (and do) certainly sympathize. (Edited to add: I also do my best to recognize my own privilege over groups more oppressed than I am. I.e. I'm a…

One of my best friends is blonde-haired, blue-eyed, Texas-born and raised white woman. I am Mexican-American. We are both staunch liberals and feminists. Early in our friendship we were venting to each other about some racial injustice that had just happened in our town (I can't even remember what it was anymore)…

Some Republicans heard that pads have wings and freaked right the fuck out.

I like the MM videos from seancody.com and corbinfisher.com. Those sites are problematic too, in that they're basically "gay for pay" (although there are puh-lenty of videos where the men look like they're extremely enthusiastic and not just putting up with it for a paycheck) and the men are almost all…