Your 9-year-old deserves better a better influence than you.

Uh it’s just a phrase someone made up? Would you fight to the death defending “finders, keepers”?

I never thought anything of people describing small annoying things (gnats, children) as “buggers”, but had an Irish friend who was aghast that we go around calling such things “faggots,” basically.

I can’t think of another instance of a term used by black people not being okay for a white person to use to describe black people.

... how on earth do you defend that “it isn’t happy holidays?” What isn’t? A five-year-old could understand the phrase “happy holidays;” it’s intentionally simplistic and universal.

Are bigots so afraid of the word “sex” that they won’t use it in proper context? Because your dig should have been at the expense of a baby’s sex, not their gender.

I feel like physical attributes are hard to write in a way that seems organic, and a lot of the time they’re not necessary if nothing more is going to be said about their cultural identity. I’ve read a lot of descriptions (particularly in YA) that are basically “she looked in the mirror and studied her freckle face…

The industry in this case is America, I guess?

Incidentally, Bari Weiss had some condescending things to say about the Aziz Ansari accusation: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/15/opinion/aziz-ansari-babe-sexual-harassment.html 

It depends on what’s being signed, I guess. Nobody else wants a picture of you with Bryan Cranston, but there’s potentially someone out there who would buy a signed Breaking Bad script or a poster or something. 

Ptsd is ADA recognized as of about 5 years ago for service animals.

I don’t know if the typo is a reference to something, but it totally works in this context.

Thought you were serious until you got to the civil war stuff, but only an especially ignorant moron would conconsider pre-reconstruction democrats relevant to this discussion.

“Ansari is probably no more than 140 lbs soaking wet, so he’s not even a physical threat to her.”

This is an ignorant statement. My boyfriend outweighs me by +/- 10 lbs, and while play-wrestling I have tried really hard to free myself from him (without telling him I was using about as much force as I could muster) and…

Do you think those were the swaying factors for the above woman who chose to start wearing a head scarf in her late 20s?

Slight grammatical error- I’m sure you meant to say “women covering themselves are a valid part of our society.”

Wisconsin, which is reportedly the state with the worst quality of life for black people. I know it’s fun to rag on iowa’s perceived emptiness though.

This is too bad. I lived in Iowa a good portion of my life and love both it and Chicago. Just wondering, are you part of the demographic that grew up in the suburbs and attended the University of Iowa?

She really hasn’t had anything to say about it for the last 20 years. She’s consistently taken the high road and has stayed pretty private aside from her continued involvement in the sport. Yours is a strange opinion.

Read the laws that are often printed right on the inside of the guest room doors- hotels aren’t liable for anything you lose, leave, or claim was stolen, and claims are what like 99% of theft cases amount to in a hotel (very few thefts occur where there may be video evidence).