Technically, I think it's called "bullying" if it's someone bigger, meaner, and older picking on a kid. Just sayin'. >.>

Agreed. I'm not typically a big Jay-Z fan, but she's so cute, and that expression on his face is too adorable when he looks away with that grin. :D

Definitely agreed. My little cousin (my cousin's 10 year old daughter) is multiracial, half black, some white, and a little native american, and her hair has the same texture as Blue's. And she's cute as hell. Grown person, kid, it really shouldn't matter. No one should be able to look down on you because you don't…

Thing is, that's not the kid choosing to be famous, and yet the kid's the one that's going to suffer for it. That's like saying you should have to sit in jail because your mother got a DUI. It's sure as shit not your fault.

No kid deserves to be bullied or picked on. Not by their peers, and certainly not by grown adults. Hate strangers all you want, but keep it to yourself or at the very least, limit it to the people who've chosen a life of fame, not kids that are born into it without being asked first if they want to be nitpicked into…

Did not know the Emmys were even on. I was too busy watching the back of my eyelids. Spoiler alert: I woke well rested. ;)

It does not happen as much because it is disproportionately people of all other colors in low income neighborhoods, but it does indeed happen, and when it does, there's rarely media coverage for those kids, either. Here's a link to a fairly recent incident not 2 weeks old: http://kutv.com/news/top-stori… from Utah.

Pinkham, your amount of humor and sarcastic wit are exactly why you're my favorite author on all kinja. I disagree with your list in a big way, but it was so funny I don't care at all. And you make a few calls I'm totally on board with: aka kiwi. Ever notice how the pale center of them if eaten alone tastes oddly…

I can't really agree with you on that, as my own personal income is roughly $800/month, and roughly $200/month goes on food, or 25%. If I was not living at my mother's house, pretty much rent free, that would not even be possible. And given that the average income in the US is about $25k/year, at 200/month, that's…

Good luck with that with me in particular. I can't touch anything metal or even primarily metal, for more than an hour or so. My skin is weird, in that it both erodes through the metal (even gold and titanium) slowly over time, and it also winds up inflamed as a result of prolonged contact. I can't imagine what…

I don't think there's anything wrong with referring to bed-hopping as whoring around, if the shoe fits. That said, I don't think it's anyone's right to look down on anyone else for doing it either. I whored around a good bit in high school. If I was single, I still would be.

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What you and I are having, though, is thoughtful discourse that includes examples, thought exercises, and actual mulling and comparison. What I was originally responding to was not. Not to mention, EvieHavok is the same person who on another thread/story managed to both tell me that I'm 'not' native (I am, my dad is…

Tell that to the 'middle eastern' Iranians who get held up by people using stereotyping to assume they're terrorists (http://www.pluralism.org/religion/islam…) and ask yourself how that could POSSIBLY qualify for being discriminated against if you happen to look like you're arabic or related to arabic via ancestry.

I'm angry because generalizing a person's descent is frowned upon in general, but if someone's not 'brown enough', it's suddenly okay. Armenia is not Ireland. It's actually a part of the east, and neighbors with Iran. Not only that, but genetic studies reveal a closer relationship to Iranians and Italians…

The countries around it? Like Iran, you mean?

The Kardashians are Armenian. Sorry they're not brown enough for you to keep from making bigoted generalizations. I fucking hate the Kardashians but way to show some ignorance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_o… What they might as well be irish to you because they are just not dark skinned enough? Is what she did…

Thank you, sir. I'm totally willing to talk about the fact that a disproportionate number of people of color (I'm actually native myself, mostly on my father's side) are affected by generational poverty, and thus the drug war, and are often the people found in the really poor and crime ridden neighborhoods that a lot…

Not only are they adorable together, but I also love love LOOOOOOOOOVE Ireland's dress. Looks like a black leather version of a 20's flapper gown. Yes plz, where can I get one of those. :D

I'm guessing it could also be being dipped in egg before being coated with bread crumbs.