And it still doesn’t make what you said about mental illness accurate!

I see she dropped the whole “Nkechi Amare Diallo” thing like an accessory that just didn’t work with her outfit.

Wherever colorism or other discriminatory beauty standards happen, it’s always women who bear the brunt of it. There are far more dark-skinned men who are famous in entertainment fields than dark-skinned women, proportionally speaking. When men of color speak up and try to own and critique their own complicity in…

That may be the case now, but I’m first generation Korean-American, and my parents’ generation (first adults to arrive after Hart-Celler, so immigrated from the late 60s to the early 80s or so as adults) is full of people who had advanced-degree white collar jobs in Korea but instead had to go into small business, the…

I always push back agains the idea that “feminizing” men is some kind of evil. First, what does that even mean? Second, we all need to become fully aware of and reject this subconscious belief that being like a woman is a degradation, an evil, an inadequacy, an inferiority. Homophobia and misogyny are two sides of the…

It depends. Due to lax regulation, there are a lot of ways to game the system and essentially buy a doctor’s note and an official-looking vest for your existing pet. A lot of people go this route because they want to take their dogs with them everywhere for selfish reasons or avoid extra regulations and fees when…

Um, that’s not what he’s saying. At all.

This is also strange because Coates is the author of some clear-eyed and hard critical assessment of Obama on race. It’s almost like West doesn’t actually know much about Coates’ output or is finding it more convenient to forget it.

To borrow a construction from a certain well-known liberal blogger:

The Venn diagram of people who can’t understand why people are complaining about Trump’s use of “Pocahontas” here and people who scream and cry over how calling someone “Becky” is racist is a single overlapping circle.

This makes no sense. Lin had to try to lock his hair, but you want proof that Martin didn’t have to try to learn Chinese (if he could speak/read it, which he clearly could not when he got those tattoos)?

I hear you on criticism of people appropriating locks, but it’s hypocrisy to go easy on Martin’s tattoos while…

Translation:

“Please go get distracted on Google and argue with me about Communism so that I don’t have to be made uncomfortable talking or thinking about white supremacy.”

Herpes and HPV are both among STIs that are easily transmitted even when condoms are used. The issue here is disclosure, not condom use.

A woman’s sexual organs are not a used car.

Here is my question tho: can we at least all agree that the “Sluts, skeezers, hoes, tramps and overly aggressive promiscuous women” that he speaks of do actually exist?

YES. THIS. Thank you.

*whoosh*

Name one time a good story has been done centering around an Asian American martial artist. I’d like to see that.

I’m an Asian who has studied MA for much of her adult life. I’d love to see a real, well-written, 3-dimensional non-stereotypical Asian American character played by an Asian American actor be a lead in a MA film. The only thing stopping it is racism and ignorance which breed creative laziness.

It’s only stereotypical because all roles for Asians in MA movies have heretofore been stereotypes. Is it really so difficult to imagine that one could write a main character MA role for an Asian person that isn’t a series of clunky, tired tropes? If so, then it’s your lack of imagination that is the problem; the…

Because “white dude appropriates Asian culture, becomes hero” is such an original, important storyline? The truly original thing, sadly, would have been to have an American martial arts production in which the main character is actually a three-dimensional Asian American person. Another white MA savior who out-Asians…