I often feel uncomfortable whenever the topic of cultural appropriation comes up because I feel so many qualms with the perspective of exclusion. I feel like this article would have been strengthened if she illustrated this statement with examples so that we can more clearly see the distinction. Perhaps then I…

Seriously? Turn that comment on its head and tell me that's not wildly offensive? Honestly, this entire video can be summed up in two words: Asian People, Black People, Latino People?

How is this ok? Or productive?

I kind of exhaled when I read this piece, because I've been feeling uneasy about the racial politics of Miley's new "direction" or whatever you call it for a while, and this article (1) confirmed that it's not just me and (2) expressed my concerns with the whole thing waaaay more articulately than I could. So thanks…

I read it the exact same way, though I'm still not sure I get it totally. I understand large parts of it, but there are a lot of nuances here that I'm still trying to tease out. I love reading an article like this before I go home. It gives me so much to think about on the commute (and after).

You know, Dodai, a Jez article hasn't made me stop and think as much as yours just did in quite a while. I try really hard to examine and check my privilege throughout my daily dealings, but it wasn't until about halfway through your article that I really got it. So thank you for being clear, measured, and nuanced…

"At any rate, if you were worried that the person directing a movie that started out as a book that started out as a Twilight fanfic written on a Blackberry wouldn't be enough of a pulsating human clitoris to effectively provide big-screen translation to that scene where a virgin named Anastasia exclaims Oh, Gosh! as…

Fuck you! I got pregnant at 18 while on the pill. As soon as I found out I had the phone book out (this was the dark ages of 1984) and looking for a clinic. I was starting college in one month and there was no way in hell I was going to have a baby. In addition I knew from an early age that I didn't want children at…

I am floored. Even though I am not a Christian, this is what I always understood true Christianity to embrace. Tolerance. Love for others. Forgiveness. Humility. I love how they do not cop out or take the easy way out — they own up to their errors, the injuries they inflicted. Christians worldwide, are you listening?

Whoa. Wow. Whoa.

Westerns also tend to ignore Hispanics as anything but bad guys. Always cracks me up when you see westerns set in the southwest and all the good guys, land owners, etc. are white. In reality, most of what we traditionally associate with cowboys (a lot of the lingo, the saddles, even a lot of the clothing) comes from…

Thinking it is theoretically possible and claiming it are two different things. Also, I imagine those that just think about the possibly and those that actually have a DNA test are different groups of people. And, yes, I am referring to white people from the US of A. Central and South Americans will have their own…

I'm half native american. I dont see what's so offensive about JD playing the role. He's a good actor and he's being backed up by tribe leaders. It seems to me that white people are complaining of a white guy trying to play the role of a nataive american because he thinks he has native blood and is offensive because…

Q. Isn't it a fact that your first husband WAS a sausage?

I know Kathy Griffin herself earned some cred because she refused to out Anderson, whatsoever. I think she took a lot of heat off him by doing things herself, and all. I have no idea about Cher.

Yes, oooooh, bad ally. Bad. Or, sorry, weird ally. I always kvetch, project, and split hairs when people make simple and good natured endorsements of groups to which I don't belong. And then I deign to call others out for being patronizing. It's really the productive, pertinent thing to do.

this is Jezebel; should read "ewwww lesbian shitasses!"

"I love my dead gay son!"

Of course. My point, in case/because you missed it, is that I don't believe what Snooki said is basis to assume that she would treat me like one.

That's in the article. It's in the third blockquote.

I teach in the Mississippi Delta at an all black school, and ANY hint of being gay from males makes you vulnerable, so the boys that can't quite pass for straight either a. Are super sweet and loyal to a bunch of tough mean girls so they don't get messed with OR b. Develop a super exaggerated keen wit and "don't even…