We’d be quicker at banning bows and arrows than we would at banning guns.

Admittedly, the first thought I had was “for the love of god, if there is more than one please, please don’t let them be brown or Da’esh sympathizers...” so to the extent it’s appropriate I was somewhat relieved that they were ‘at least’ White but am still concerned about the second half.

It really astounds me the number of times I’ve seen in the UK where I actually only have Mrs. and Miss as my options—I’ve been using Ms. for years.

Except for the fact that when YOU wear a sari if you’re white, it’s cool and exotic and look how cultured and cosmopolitan you are for wearing somebody else’s culture.

Uh, COMPLETELY false that bindis have “no deeper meaning for most people in their culture.”

I’m Hindu—and Indian, incidentally, though if I were Hindu and Malaysian or something that’d still count—and I’ve posted above a couple times in this thread, basically suggesting that I personally am bothered by little white girls in Lululemon who come to the table without respect, knowledge, or understanding. And…

I guess for me it falls into a different category—it’s like, great, I’m glad you’re enjoying doing yoga, but please, please have an understanding of what it is and where it comes from? I don’t think that’s too much to ask.

Well, look, it’s like American Chinese food in that sense. It’s recognizably NOT Chinese, whatever that means as a term, but we don’t stop calling it Chinese food.

Yeah. My mom is visiting me. She insisted last night that although I am admittedly about 20lb higher than where I generally feel comfortable, I am clearly obese and need to aim for being 105lb to be healthy and slim and attractive.

Erin Gloria Ryan is leaving too?

Yeah, careful with that one. If the Repubes see your post, they WILL start agitating that we don’t let anybody into the country who looks vaguely brown or beardy or male.

You had me for a second there with your first two sentences but then I started laughing.

THANK YOU. This.

The law muddies the waters here. So in Virginia if I remember correctly, PIV is rape, non-P in an orifice on a male or female is “object sexual penetration,” and I THINK after that everything else is some kind of sexual battery.

The only context in which I have ever heard a European ask for a gun — and I didn’t hear it — is that apparently the UK cops got a bit pissy about the fact that the French were allowed guns when in the Chunnel on duty, even though the UK cops weren’t.

I don’t understand that OK Corral reference. In that I’m not sure . . . how it applies here.

The good guys DID avert an attack.

Most of everybody I’ve ever met in any activist circle feels the same way you do about trying not to engage in the exercise of false empathy. To be fair to her in that moment I think it was a legitimate slip-up, on her part—and mine. And to be honest, I think in that encounter my response was more hurtful to her than…

Despite the importance of Germaine Greer’s work to the feminist discourse, I have to say, match made in heaven, right, on the basis of some of the hate-filled nonsense she spouts about trans women . . .

Yeah, I’ll bite.