Relevant: I learned recently that White people and people with straight hair can only have matted hair stuck together with dirt and oil, which isn’t similar to how dreadlocks form. As with all forms cultural appropriation, it’s not only hurtful and damaging, it’s also just objectively inferior.  

This is the correct take, Lakeith just needs some stilletos and a punchier flow.

Willing to bet that lots of the commenters saying it gets better are White cis- and able-bodied! If you are Black, or trans, or fat, or disabled, the bullying that happens in high school doesn’t go away even in queer communities located in coastal metro areas. If anything, it intensifies because these are the people…

I think what Shaq is actually talking about without saying it is inventory management, like, basically don’t buy the whole thing at once when you can spread at payments over time with no interest. Then you always have more money in your pocket, and less of it tied up in a thing. My partner thinks like this, and does…

These Gpen Elites are really unreliable. It took me 2 returns to get one that functioned for more than a day. If yours breaks, don’t pay to ship it back, tell them you just want to send a video of the malfunction and have them send you a new one. Once you get one that works, it works well, but it was probably a month…

These Gpen Elites are really unreliable. It took me 2 returns to get one that functioned for more than a day. If…

Yes, weaponized, as Indian convenience store owners have been murdered due to ignorance and stereotypes: http://www.indiawest.com/news/global_indian/two-indian-americans-shot-dead-in-gas-station-robbery-attempts/article_9fdc207e-de3e-11e4-90be-0b9960c65316.html

Fellow learner of Colombian Spanish herw. There’s an interesting ongoing column in El Pais that explores the origins of various Colombian regionalisms. And I went to linguistics grad school with the columnist in Florida! She even included one of my questions as a column, which was how come sometimes people say el coso…

I grew up down the street from this guy. Didn’t know him well, but this also doesn’t surprise me. Thank you to the survivor who spoke up.

The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid...haven’t read it but I loved another book I read by her.

And yet, this is by far a less consequential -a/-er distinction.

Thank you! I realized I’ve been doing it wrong, went and did some more research and now feel much better.

+1 dog whistle

I’ve been coming to Deadspin for over five years and never been as disgusted by the comments to an article. I didn’t even have a Kinja account and I made one to say this. If you can’t see how a joke is insensitive when a group of almost all white people secondarily makes light of a manufactured crisis that has caused…