A Small Turnip basically addressed all this, but to emphasize why we need a hard cut-off, there are still an astonishingly large number of people out there who will spout bullshit about obviously young children being "mature". All that stuff about 14-year-olds who look like adults (no, they really don't). Think about…

I used to work in a strip club/adult store/massage parlor. We had internet booths, with some free porn access. Every. fucking. week, random middle-aged, well-dressed, white guy in a suit would scuttle out of his booth like he had a red hot potato jammed up his ass and scoot out of the store and almost without…

Colorblind people remind me of this quote: "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing". These people don't really want to work to dismantle systemic racism. They just don't want to be accused of being racist, which is more important to a lot of white people than actually solving…

Only people with no racial awareness whatsoever think that being "blind to race" is a good thing at all.

That engagement chicken is literally the most anemic chicken recipe I have ever seen (need more spices).

This is one of the best summaries I've read of the "fuck you, ladies and minorities, YOU'RE all the ones with the privilege!" mentality that keeps popping up in this shitstorm.

Moreover, it isn't unique these gamers. The argument against Affirmative Action is based upon it's phantom victims (the white kid at the bottom of the yes pile who gets bumped). #notallmen is a strawman based on the false belief that feminism is blaming all men for bad deeds (missing the whole point). The whole…

The irony is, it could end up an epidemic here in the US if people panic badly enough about the prospect of an Ebola epidemic here in the US. One of the biggest reasons Ebola is so bad in West Africa right now is because people were freaking out, refusing to cooperate with controlling local outbreaks, and just making…

This is going to do terrible, terrible things to my Facebook newsfeed.

I went out for drinks the other night with a friend and realized I was dressed exactly like my first fashion idol—Claudia. I had black leggings, booties, and an overszied blue polka-dot shirt, and neon pink lipstick. The only thing missing was giant earrings and a side ponytail.

Please don't do this. I got bullied for years because I lived in condo as a child and middle schoolers are assholes.

Nobody puts Baby on the floor.

This is not about having sexual preferences, but if you enjoy arguing with that strawman, I'm not going to stop you. This is specifically about excluding people from your dating pool based on race.

As a biracial woman, I get a lot of black men contacting me with the barely concealed hope that dating me might be like dating a white girl, but their moms would approve. Once they find out that I'm an agnostic feminist, they back away slowly. It's like the think subservience comes along with "good" hair and light…

Sorry. I hope you didn't get the impression that I'm calling you racist. The point of that last sentence was to highlight the fact that racism won't go away because it can't go away. Racism is like the tide of a beach. It (seemingly) recedes at times and makes a resurgence when necessary. Emphasis on the word…

Oh God, cue the 'YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHO YOU'RE ATTRACTED TO' chorus.

Because it's wrapping the entire thing and removing it would involve reaching in and grabbing the person's food. That's what fish en papillote IS; that's how it's fucking served.

Our (Texas) school dress code prohibited body piercings — even body piercings that are not visible while clothed. I had my belly button pierced and the rumor got around to my cheer coach, who demanded I lift up my shirt so she could inspect my reportedly-pierced belly button. I told her if she forced me to lift up my…