Preach, tayhdanicole.

Interesting perspective but as a black woman, I could not help but wonder if your "nuanced" perspective is due (at least in part) to your having a white mother, and thus, feeling more compassion/somewhat relating to curious white people in general.

I am firmly in the "Don't touch my fucking hair, what is wrong with you?" camp.

I'm going to start this, read away if you want.

Aahhhhh this is how I feel about Ms. Washington's marriage...especially since she managed to do it in private!!

I'll be honest — I was excited about birth control because it meant I could glamorously fish into my purse and pop out a pill from a cute little pinwheel dispenser like a real grown-up lady just like I saw on the teevee or whatever.

so i followed the link to those #pillnation instagram pics, and... DAMN. i don't know what i was expecting, but it just seems so... glamorized. ugh.

Taye Diggs is being accused of cheating on Idina Menzel.

And people wonder why I hate people.....

Betches are the ironically racist hipsters of the sorority world.

"I'm doing it in an ironic way, so it's cool to act like this."

No, Betches. No it's not.

Can I say that, or is Betch their word?

She's totes edgy.

this is how i feel. the same as her.

Dear school: but your own state's name is a friendly greeting with afro puffs on either side! You'll have to ban that as well.

Guys....guys. You can just drink it.

That was horrifying.

How privileged do you have to be to interrupt somebody during a speaking engagement, THEN @codepink to turn around to tell Michelle how SHE was supposed to react?

Oh, here's another entitled white woman acting rude and outrageous and showing displeasure when a woman of color, this time the FLOTUS, tells her to have a seat and shut the hell up.

A funny (and not ha-ha) thing just happened. I was in the process of responding to a previous comment, which I have included below, when I saw that it had disappeared. The comment, while critical of this post, and indeed of other similar posts, made what I believe to be a valid point. I was in the process of saying…

For everyone who doesn't get what "ratchet" is:

I'm due in Sept and cant help feeling like I did this so wrong.