I don't mean to sound judgy, but you need better friends.

Also, please. Can we stop with the ally bashing?

Agree with the sentiment, but Drake actually is black, and I don't see him trying to act/rap "ghetto", as you put it. If we're going to call out any rapper for that, let's start with Kanye.

The Bjørn Identity.

The fun thing about feminism and women having choices is that women have choices. Maybe she chose to give their child Kanye's last name because she wanted to.

Yes! My very slim friend is certainly not "secretly delighted" when every time she turns down an offer of food (and she gets offered food all the time) people start whispering about her behind her back.

Or employment at ALL , rather. More people would be able to freelance or start their own businesses if they weren't tied to working for someone else to get benefits. Health care is a basic human right in any civilized society and until we as a nation embrace that concept, we're going to be lagging behind.

I lived in the 818 for a time. I was labeled "geographically undesirable."

Yes. And also, that's not how Catholicism works. As someone else mentioned in another comment, Catholics believe in free will - which means it is the choices YOU make, for YOURSELF, that determine whether or not you have sinned. I don't think there's a mandate to make anything that goes against church teaching…

Well, see, the problem with the (extremely common) argument of "Asians only excel in test-taking and are weak in critical thinking/leadership/creativity" is, how does that explain the majority Asian population at UC schools, with their race-blind admissions process? Their admission system doesn't just consider test…

You've hit the nail on the head. My big problem with choice feminism is how it focuses on personal empowerment to the exclusion of a rigorous critique of structural power and systemic gender-based oppression. It's the same frustration I have with the food movement, when people focus on individual health without…

I said nothing, because I was not an allergy sufferer...

My first reaction was to say "No would would talk about this if it were a man", but then I remembered how when Chris Christie had weight loss surgery whenever-ago everyone said it was so he could run for president in the future. Why don't we just stop caring about candidates' weights? They have to submit health…

Yeah, Weiner for sure bears the biggest responsibility, but Ms. Leathers is also an asshole. She was perfectly aware of the situation, and made the choice to go ahead with it...and NOW we should all applaud/feel sorry for her? Or something? I was once, briefly, the other woman. The guy was, yes, a master…

The objective is to force the woman to acknowledge he is a sexually viable entity. By demanding she become aware that he feels aroused by her, no matter how unattractive or inappropriate he is for her - or how completely anonymous, for that matter - for the duration of that interaction, she has to agree that he is a…

Absolutely, it's context specific. It wouldn't be appropriate for a white politician to stand up in front of a group of non-Indigenous people and start talking about 'blackfellas', but when I'm meeting with a group of people that I know, and who have an ongoing relationship with my organisation, then yeah I would…

Wow alleycatagain1, thumbs up to you for standing up to the clown who tried to force you to do that story, and for the way you went about it. That is all kinds of awesome smothered in awesome sauce.

Also, not relevant really to your comment, but just to further illustrate how sometimes social media feels like a short cut method of communication. My Dad died last year and it was very hard on me. I'm an uber private person and didn't feel comfortable sharing it on social media. Well other members of my family…

To author.... generally "person-first" language is more appropriate and less stigmatizing when referring to a person having a mental illness... 2nd paragraph could read, "Whether or not there is any truth to rumors circulating that she has schizophrenia, it's pretty apparent..." People with mental illness are more…

See if it were me, I'd have given them a due date three weeks after the real one, and gone to a hospital in Wales or somewhere random.