with no gap i have someplace to shove my hands and keep them warm without needing to invest in gloves.

Exactly. My not being obviously Jewish unless I mention it (or notice the mezuzah on my door) makes me not The Jew, but a Jewish person. Imagine if this argument was used for a typical white male anglo Christian character. So, WHY is this character white?? They don't walk around in preppy clothes all the time, and…

I *really* wish i had a photo. I also wish i could remember what castle it was.

What i do remember, is we made two (i was about.. 9ish) my mum made the actual cake (and it was a thing of beauty) and i just for fun made a smaller one (wait, she was paid for this, does this make it child labour?!) that was supposed to…

Sesame Street never gets old. And I miss Mr. Rodgers. Yes, he was ridiculously over-the-top kind and sweet. But the world needs more of that, and less smart-ass snark that only aims to "take people down a notch." (Don't get me wrong, I am a smart-ass whose first language is Sarcasm, but I still think that we've come…

"No, you see, it's not 'default.' Various races and genders are just more naturally suited for certain types of roles. Like, if we needed a beautiful rape victim to show us how cruel this world is, we'd have used a white girl. Maybe an Asian girl if we couldn't get a really hot white girl. Or if we needed a short,…

That's the author's default, and you are here defending him, so yes, what else would one think you considered to be the default? Especially since you have said having non-white characters is automatic tokenism, unless their "otherness" is inherent to the plot?

Do you get similarly upset when actual people are colors and genders other than White Male? There's, like, no reason for that whatsoever!

I'd be fine with it if we were eating Indian food or, like, fixing a computer or something. You know - when there's a reason to be Indian. But not while we're doing regular stuff.

Definitely. My boyfriend is Indian and he's soooooo stubborn about it! Dude, there is actually no reason for you to be Indian right now when we're trying to eat pizza here like normal people. It drives me crazy and I don't know why he won't just cut it out.

I hope to god this was self published...

I struggled to stop at 3. I am the mayor of Giftown.

I just, you know . . . I don't really *mind* that you're Indian. I'd just like to hear your explanation as to why it's necessary. Cause I'm not seeing it.

Hey, those eagles needed to get home and we helped.

OMG I think I'm going to vomit everywhere.

On Gawker this morning they mentioned that he also wrote a book called Rag Doll. Here's the summary on Amazon:

you behave like you're a victim. You believe you are entitled to abridge the rights of others and get pissy when you can't do that. "oh boo hoo! People who are different than me exist and have equal rights to me! Woe is me!" Get over it!

absolutely!

Missouri's AG announced today that he was giving up the fight against out of state Marriage Equality recognition. He said he realized that trying to attract big business to the state would be hampered by telling a company that their employee's marriages in one state would be invalid in his. Gotta love it when people…

"Pfft. We were 3/5ths there as early as 1787."