Neighbor: “He always seemed like such a nice guy, very helpful but quiet.” Every Dateline ever!

Beware the “gentlemen” and “classy” ladies too.

My coworker had a client once who liked to tell her in no uncertain terms that he had a big dick ready for her. Like it was just a totally acceptable thing to insert into workplace conversation. He was also 75 or something.

in my years in customer service I was always extra disgusted by the men that hit on me at work. It was never age appropriate, good looking men, but even if it were I think I probably would’ve been skeeved unless there was hard-core, multi-visit reciprocated flirting. There were times I actually felt violated (like the…

totally off topic, but this is my OkCupid profile strategy.

How could someone NOT know that saying something like that to someone, ESPECIALLY in a business setting (which official news interviews are) is unbelievably rude? Over and above so many other things, that displayed really bad manners.

Best part of all this? The linked New Times article includes a headshot of Griego... that stops just below her tits. Y’know, just so we can see what he was talking about.

The more someone insists they’re “one of the good ones,” a “nice guy,” the more I become convinced there is a torture basement in their residence.

Saved by the Bell is the only high school show that I remember with any POC with major speaking roles (Lark Voorhees and Mario Lopez).

Over Christmas, my parents spent a good 20 minutes volunteering their ideas about why BLM is an illegitimate civil rights movement. My mom brings up Trayvon Martin. I was slack jawed. “He was an unarmed child.”

I’d first like to apologize for my long winded response.

It’s almost as if you can’t undo centuries of oppression - physical, political, social, financial - in a couple of decades! Crazy.

I get you here, full stop. All the above about Hollywood as a whole treating black actors and black narratives as important only when they involve brutality is spot on. White folk are given agency and complexity in movies, black artists are forced into predefined roles for white audiences. It’s got to change, and fast.

Black and Latino high school students only exist to challenge brand new white teachers and then grow to love them while, in the end, teaching the teacher the most meaningful lessons of all.

I think a lot of why these stories get told over others is that white people are mostly willing to consider race at all if at the end they can pat themselves on the back and say, “Look at how far we’ve come! I’m so proud all that is over and we don’t have to consider race anymore!”

They do, but only to terrible schools where they are about to drop out until some middle-age white man having a mid-life crisis really connects with them.

My husband is an academic in a STEM field, and especially in STEM fields there seems to be a stronger than usual belief that their field is a meritocracy, and if women and POC aren’t there, they just couldn’t cut it. (My husband is not one of these people, thank god.)

I love it when people act like treating each other like human beings is some huge inconvenience that requires a ton of their effort to comply to. Certainly there are issues that require a little knowledge and nuance, but 99% is just "treat other people as human beings." I think it says a lot about these people that…

Tangent, but:

I can. not. wait. for. this. Nat Turner is a fascinating figure. He purportedly taught himself to read before the age of 5. He was clearly incredibly brilliant, but based on sources I think he must also have been equally charismatic. His rebellion was originally planned for July 4th but then he got sick and had to…