It's not always people trying to look European or Caucasian. My girlfriend's sick of explaining to white people why she doesn't just let her hair "afro" or dred out. Her hair is really coarse and keeping it from clumping up into a mess is a daily and annoying chore. One girl even cut her hands trying to comb it for…

Whats worse is Jezebel is making people froth at the mouth over something that, in all likelyhood, was not intentional. I'm so sick of this clickbait garbage and I'm about to give up this site for good.

It only looks like the designer who cut the model out of the image did not lock the "mask" from the background image. It's common for this to happen in photoshop. When it does, the image can look like it was cut out wrong. (Like if you laser cut something but have the image not placed correctly. The cut will be…

The person tasked with cutting out the hundreds of images on that page has obviously made a clipping mask around the model to create the white background,
then they scaled up the image, but accidentally unlinked the clipping mask from the image.
So the mask has stayed the same size, but the image has scaled up, so they…

It's cool. My anti-vax friend on Facebook has reassured me multiple times that dosing your kids with local, organic honey is much more effective than traditional antibiotics. #science

No, I'm a scientist and I actually think that the misuse of antibiotics is a huge public health issue, and along with anti-vaccination idiots, the sort of nonsense that's probably going to end our civilization. But trying to teach the American public science is harder than teaching a dog Cantonese, and so faced with…

I find it a little hypocritical to call Rayon a collection of tropes rather than a real trans character, and then criticize the character for not reacting to being misgendered. This implies two things about trans people : that we all react to misgendering the same way, and that we all experience gender dysphoria in…

I think the important question here is whether the character would consider herself/himself to be a trans woman or a gay, male transvestite, or drag queen, or something in between. I also think it's important to consider the historical/cultural context that the character was living in. In 1985, when the movie takes…

Not at all, honey - I agree. That hair piece is SO wrong, and dress ain't exactly worthy of a drag queen prez.

It interesting how easily people access homophobic discourse in order to point to ethnic or gender advantages held by white gay men.

It's easier for dumb Americans; in fact it is encouraged.

(Just 'reply'ing to you because you're the OP.) - Tangent: Lincoln's ideas on African Americans weren't all that great, either, I'd say. His speeches are more admirable if they're interpreted given his times; he is, nevertheless, effective as a deified heroic figure.

Simple version: The South seceded because of slavery, the North went to war because the South seceded.

This is mostly right, but the States' Rights thing gets to me. If anything, it was about Northern state rights. The Northern states were being forced to return freed slaves to Southern states by the Southern-dominated federal government. In fact, the Secession was in part a reaction to Southern states feeling like…

The North didn't start the War. The South did. The fact that they were a primaily agricultural society poking a larger very industrial society didn't seem to bother them any.

So glad once again that I moved from NYC to New Orleans. Life is essentially a bottomless brunch here.

It's pretty much never ok to make fun of how someone feels, though. If these men are acting inappropriately, then call them on that. But you feel how you feel, and that's ok, including if having someone else open the door for you makes you feel bad.

Prediction: 98% of the profiles on this app will be dudes posting as their girlfriend hitting on other dudes who are posting as their girlfriends.

There needs to be an app for foot fetishists, so they can seek out the latest mainstream news articles about sex, and the "feet sticking out of the covers" pictures that accompany every single freaking one.

I'll argue that Claire is at least great for feminism in Hollywood because she proves there can be equally great roles for women over 40. She and Frank are perfect for each other, and I think the most moving part of the show is the fact that these two ruthless pragmatists truly only have one soft spot: their love for…