Celine Dion is also an ignorant bigot. I was never a fan of hers, but now...ugh!

Are you in the 1950s???

You do know that most Pakistani women don't wear a heardscarf, right? And that there is no restriction on driving in any Muslim country other than Saudi Arabia? And that this character lives in the US? Or did you mean to sound like an Islamophobic, xenophobic misogynist?

I loved Saat Khoon Maaf!

Yes. Thank you! I'm South Asian as well (Pakistani Punjabi) and Priyanka Chopra is pretty average as far as skin colour goes. I think she's Punjabi as well. In fact, she's probably darker than a lot of Punjabis I know.

I'm getting tired of white people telling us how we're supposed to look.

I'm South Asian...and she looks pretty Indian. Not sure what you think an Indian person is supposed to look like.

I agree that second wave and liberal feminism is highly problematic, but there are different ways to identify as feminist. As a Muslim woman myself I do want to stand with women like Amina Wadud and Asma Barlas as well as the many other Muslim women who identify as Muslim feminists and approach gender justice from a…

Trends are really changing now. At least in Pakistan, most brides go light on the jewellery. They will still wear the set - necklace, earrings, jhoomar, tikka, bangles - but the jewellery is more subtle than before.

Although cosmetic surgery is a personal choice, it is one that has social consequences. If people want to get cosmetic surgery I really wish they would recognize that social consequences of that choice. Not to dissuade them from doing so, but to recognize that they are not living in a vacuum and their choices do have…

But you see, white people, when they say stuff like that we know they're kidding because white people are inherently civilized peoples. When brown people say it we know they're (we're) serious because we are inherently barbaric. So.....

Do you have stats on how many crimes have been committed by Roma in Canada? I'm assuming one case in New York is not why the Canadian government is so against them.

And that story you linked to - I'm sorry that happened to your grandmother, but "gypsy"? Who uses that term anymore? That article is pretty disgusting.

There is definitely a time and a place for a critique of capitalism and consumerism. I'm not sure this is the time for it, though this story does point to is how capitalism is implicated in racism. In other words, how capitalism helps maintain and perpetuate racist systems. Though that is a complicated conversation.

Have you seen her on Flight of the Conchords? Amazing....and creepy. She's great.

The Canadian government has a special hate for Roma peoples. It's so strange but they seem to be especially obsessed with either refusing Roma peoples entry into Canada or deporting those who are already here. It's disturbing.

I wonder if for WOC being compliant means trying to attain the white beauty ideal? So not just make-up, but actually altering our features - bleach creams, cosmetic surgery, etc.

I don't care what colour people are

First off, no you can't comment on those with Pakistani background. Let's get that clear. You don't know what it's like to be of Pakistani background. So you can't. You can comment on what you see, but only what you see. Even then you can't claim to understand. You can't comment on "those with Pakistani background."…

"but on Jez, as a general rule, most people are aware of their prejudices "

Yeah...that is so not true. Many women of colour here have pointed out the total lack of awareness of so many Jez commentors.

And your comment about the burka/bikini - I can see why you were called out on that. Just because you don't like being…

Yes, because the world works so well now. War, poverty, violence, hunger, oppression of all kinds, injustice, over-populated prisons, climate change, etc etc etc. Yes, patriarchy has indeed produced the modern world we live in.

Nah...you see, we're Pakistanis so naturally we're biased. We need outsiders to tell us how it really is, cuz, you know, we're kinda helpless, ignorant, and brainwashed.