The Bluish Tinge in the Halfmoon; or, Fingernails as a Racial Sign by Werner Sollors and his Neither Black nor White yet Both

Definitely slept with one of my TAs and have lusted after several. BUT, it was a year or so after class had ended. Woo boy I flirted shamelessly with him while the class was going on (awkwardly is more like it, but let's pretend that I was smooth) so I was glad it came to fruition. What creeped me out though was that…

It's kind of crazy but one of the ways to tell if someone was "passing" was to see if there were blue tinges in the half-moon at the base of their nailbeds. This test was described in literature of N. America and Europe since the mid 1800s.

Now why do you think we are bombarded with messages that straight, sleek hair is beautiful? Could it be because curly, frizzy, kinky hair was associated with the racially undesirable? Back to my original point.

I get what you are saying but I don't think the 'Jew fro' has been established as a common ethno-racial marker for Jewish people, ethnic Jews or otherwise for this to be a thing. In the Jewish diaspora, to my knowledge, there are not a majority of Jews with a 'Jew fro'. I'm not saying that hair texture is NEVER used…

Blerg. The author's point still stands - hair texture has been a racial identifier for people of the black diaspora. It's right up there with skin color (obvs) and the half-moon fingernail tests when it comes to ways that the 'one drop' rule has been violently enforced. If whites in North America at least have their…

Lupita is a grown woman though. Blue Ivy is a baby who is probably spends half of her day on the ground exploring and playing because that's what KIDS do.

I'm so done with people freaking out about that child's hair, and other black celeb children. They are fucking infants/toddlers! I comb my son's hair every day (because its curly but not kinky like mine but gets tangled if I miss a day) and shit *still* looks crazy because he's rowdy. Would you rather your child…

That's interesting. I find that movie to have a completely different tone than FiddyShay (stolen from an above commenter). BDSM is Maggie's characters way to express her masochistic urges in a safe and personally pleasurable, empowering way. The final scene where she stares into the camera hammered that message home…

Exactly! She's clearly been having some type of issues for almost two decades now. I'm not going to diagnose someone I don't know with a mental illness because it could be as simple as having a really predatory, manipulative group of 'yes' men around her instead of a supportive network of people. But, something was…

This made me do a spit take. Funniest spot-on description of this particular breed of asshat I have ever read.

God, I totally forgot about that one. He was great in it! I was obsessed with that movie for a hot minute (and devastated when Em and Ken broke up.)

Oh god, I was coming here tonight to write the same thing. I moved to my city 5 years ago and still have NO friends here. The only people I know are part of my husbands family and friends, but sometimes you need someone from outside of that network to bitch about your relationship too. Because I've had a long bout of…

As a leftist I have serious issues with Obama but as far as him being "utterly terrible"? No, not really. He's not one of the greats but not anywhere near the worst. When you factor in the constant stonewalling he's faced with in Congress and still managed to pass a middling healthcare act which should be single-payer…

I agree. But then again Democrats suck too. It's really a race to the bottom in terms of asking myself who will do the least damage to my equal access to economic opportunities and control over my own body (as a WoC) every election. America's been doing a steady backtrack on racial issues since the late 1970s though…

Yet somehow women who turn down guys with these gross lines still manage to get laid (aka their "lonely holes" stuffed?). And I know gay men who would shut similar shit down too so bullshit on you. Maybe we're not operating on a scarcity/desperation model of finding sexual partners?

Yeah, I only mildly dislike Orlando Bloom while loathing Justin Bieber. But after this I'm going to reconsider my feelings about Bloom. Although, he is probably too old to taking a swing at such an obviously immature douche.

HAVE YOU?

I think it's one of those cases that none of us have any right to comment on because we don't actually know shit.