Bah! Only women are allowed to judge and select partners they want! How dares a MAN have a set of expectations from a potential mate? Surely he must just be thankful that a female wanted to grace him with her attention and not be picky at all.

The water around Liberty Island are technically NJ but the island itself and everything on it still falls under New York jurisdiction and is, of course, one of the city's symbols. Regardless of technicalities, your sentiment is valid!

I'll bet money that this step opens the floodgates to tokenism on a campus wide scale. I rushed at Arizona State in the mid 90s and got bids for houses that were way out of my league because I was the least threatening black girl the world had ever seen. I thought maybe I was just awesome until I got a bid from Delta…

This is my first time commenting (I studied Anthropology as an undergrad — learning extensively about the Maasai — and am currently a grad student in Women's Studies, so I do feel strongly about this), but Mindy Budgor enrages me. If she ever took a decent anthropology (or even history) course, she'd know about the…

Thanks for taking the time to so eloquently provide an individual education on the White Savior complex.

It's not an equal two-way street. White people have a long, storied history of oppressing other cultures, complete with appropriating the bits they like and skewering the bits they don't - in this case, living there contributing to their culture isn't good enough for her, but she still wants to be included in their…

(I'm still convinced this is all bullshit and it was the only way they could get rid of her)

I love how this guy cut his into a crown shape. They should've had a whole craft day to make them look creative/colorful, that would've helped destressed them all before the test too.

My friend Susan was competing from a promotion. She 's the cutest, littlest, blondest thing. She's also brilliant and hyper-competitive. Her dumbass boss actually told her that he gave the job to the man "because he needs it more, because he has a family to support." (Susan is a divorced mom, not receiving child…

I had the morning after pill 4 times in the UK between 17 and 21, and you know how I did it every single time?

Walked into pharmacy

Larry David has to have a hand in this somehow.

This reminds me of the times Jezebel posts an article about some new horrifying item on a fast food menu (i.e., birthday cake cheeseburger, bacon-wrapped twinkie... etc) along with a big, disgusting close-up photo of it. The article and comments discuss what an abomination it is, while I silently stare at it and know…

I used to be a size 26/28 when I was in high school. I was big all through elementary and middle school too. I'm 28 and recently went to my high school reunion (Against my will, my three girlfriends forced me to go, but I ultimately ended up having a good time. Weird haha.) I'm now a size 6/8. Most people at my…

Living well is the best revenge....

Well, I guess the easiest route would be for all Hispanic people to change their last name to Smith or Anderson, then? Because your boss was a racist, people should just cede their identities, rather than remaining who they are and working to change the system?

So we're back in a U.S. where the names of people of color can be arbitrarily changed by white folk in power. Let's party like it's 1799!

I kind of understand it in certain situations, and I'm not exactly the doyenne of etiquette or anything NEAR wealthy. This month in my daughter's class there were seven birthdays, all of which had the entire class invited, and they all needed scheduling. If there was a specific day a family needed (out of town dad in…

When I was seven or eight, I was really into wolves, in the way that kids are obsessed with one really specific thing and then spend all of their time thinking about it. (Beforehand I had been very into space exploration and had a notebook dedicated to cataloging facts from every mission in the Mercury and Apollo…

I want to share an anecdote. I'm not really making any kind of statement by it, I just feel like sharing. As a white person whose parents didn't fly to the suburbs, who attended public schools where white was the minority, I feel like I should share my personal experience. Because I don't have any black friends.